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3/7/12 at 5:31pm

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How do I go about changing the location of the RAW files that have already been imported into Lightroom? Right now they are all in one folder and I need to organize the raw file pictures into sub folders, but I haven't done it yet since I don't know how Lightroom 3 will react to the moving of the imported raw files.

Will Lightroom 3 just be empty again and I just have to reimport the RAW files from their new locations?

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3/7/12 at 5:56pm

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Nevermind I figured it out. I just highlighted all the RAW photos in Lightroom library and then clicked delete photo and then removed them from lightroom without deleting from disk.

I'm guessing I just reorganize the files in my harddrive and then reimport them back into Lightroom with their new locations?

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3/7/12 at 6:35pm

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Ok, so I reimported the pictures back into Lightroom with their new folders. I was reading on the Adobe forums that when you reimport the same pictures into the same catalog that the RAW files can lose their metadata? Is this true?

The pictures still seem to have the data with them still when going to the Develop tab. Are all my raw CR2 files messed up now?

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3/7/12 at 7:45pm

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did you open one and see if it was OK?

For reference, the easy way to move files once they're in your catalog is to move them inside of Lightroom . That way it maintains all the data from the catalog.

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3/7/12 at 8:45pm

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When you open up the CR2 file, you mean in Lightroom 3 correct? Yes, the same CR2 files imported fine into the same catalog in LR3, but they were imported from their new locations.

When people are saying that they lose their metadata from their RAW file, do they mean the information that it stores from the camera? or the changes that they made to the RAW file in Lightroom? After I export out the RAW files to JPEG, I just reset the RAW file back the way it was before. This is what's confusing me.

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3/8/12 at 3:44pm

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bump, so is all the metadata from my CR2 files loss now since I imported them a second time into Lightroom? I'm confused when people are talking about metadata. Are they talking about the actual information that the RAW files have or the changes that they have made to the RAW files by editing them?

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3/8/12 at 5:34pm

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bump, so is all the metadata from my CR2 files loss now since I imported them a second time into Lightroom?

Nope.

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I'm confused when people are talking about metadata. Are they talking about the actual information that the RAW files have or the changes that they have made to the RAW files by editing them?

IDK. Don't worry about it. lol not a big deal anyways. I've done a lot of organizing and moving and editing in lightroom and my images are fine and their metadata is still intact since the day I took them.

You don't need to remove images from lightroom to move them or reset the image to how it was before you edited it either...

Under the Library tab just move make folders within Lightroom, have your main pictures folder then branch it out. You can move them around how you like in lightroom and it will move it on your drive.

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ah I see thanks for the info. I don't understand what people are talking about when they say they're losing their "metadata." If the metadata from my CR2 files was lost, I wouldn't be able to see the histogram information and then exposure information in the develop module right? The information is still there just like the first time I imported the raw pictures.

Also, should I have created a new catalog before importing the pictures the secondtime?

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3/8/12 at 7:43pm

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Watch some of these videos: http://tv.adobe.com/show/learn-lightroom-3/

Helps a lot.

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I am not sure either. Can you show me what you are talking about, links?

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Also, should I have created a new catalog before importing the pictures the secondtime?

Nope, no need to. I have a catalog for every year. For example, I have a 2011 catalog and a 2012 catalog now. But that is for me, you can simply use a single catalog or have a ton of them, one for every shoot. It is up to you and your workflow.

watch some of these videos he has more too.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9LiieMyQds
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLC8EqnzTso
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hi4G3j5iq44

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3/8/12 at 8:50pm

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Heres an example. http://forums.adobe.com/message/4075881

I've always liked photography for a couple of years, but never got into it until this year when I got my first DSLR(T2i). So I'm still learning about post production and everything else.

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