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Feature Request -- Find moved folder

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Marv:
Please add the ability to a catalog with a folder of images that has been moved to a new disk. 

If you move a folder to a new disk, there is no way to update the catalog with the folder's new location.   Currently, you would manually have to find and delete the old imagines then re-catalog the folder on the new disk.   This is time consuming.  The ability to tell PM+ the new location of the folder would be much faster.

Thanks,
Marv
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Hayo Baan:
This a again looks like what we need is something like the “synchronize folders” that Lightroom offers. I use that feature frequently there.

carlseibert:
I think running Scan to Catalog for both the old and new locations should do that. Basically, just what Lightroom's Synchronize folders command does.

There's another thread here about the potential for (semi) auto-update, which could help here, too.

But I just tested and rescanning doesn't detect deleted or moved images.  [....shuffles off to report probable bug...]

carlseibert:
Turns out - not a bug it's a (missing) feature.

Here's what Kirk says from the Support forum:


--- Quote ---Carl,

Scan to Catalog does not know what it has scanned and found before.  So basically a missing feature, though I don't think we'd be adding that capability there.

More likely it will be a new feature that would check for new or missing items.

-Kirk
--- End quote ---

So it's on the map....

krubin:
I think there are probably two approaches to solving this, and it would be great to have both (of course users want everything).

The simpler option, which is what I believe the original request was, is more of a "reset path" feature for an existing branch within the catalog.  When  a folder move happens outside of the environment (for whatever reason) it would be ideal to "re-point" the catalog path to the new directory.  For example, in my workflow I locate files in one place as they are being "worked on" actively, and then they are re-located to large-volume storage once they have been backed up on optical media.  Nothing within the catalog has changed, except the volume and part of the folder path. 

The more complex option is a folder synchronize, as has been described above. 

I would submit there is a case to be made for both.    Thanks much!

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