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jrdiandrea

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Easy way to tag photos in folders
« on: October 14, 2014, 09:04:04 pm »
i have a large amount of photos i want to begin tagging. I have them well organized in folders and sub folders. Is there a way to get to these folders themselves thru MC? It would be so much easier to tag groups of them at one time in the folders they reside.
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kensn

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Re: Easy way to tag photos in folders
« Reply #1 on: October 14, 2014, 09:15:40 pm »
Try this:

Right Click on Images in the Tree - Add Library View.

Click on Shortcuts, Keywords, & Ratings then give your view a name then click OK.

Right click the top tab Shortcuts - and select Add Category To The Left. Select File path and click OK.

This will provide you with what you want I believe.

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jrdiandrea

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Re: Easy way to tag photos in folders
« Reply #2 on: October 14, 2014, 09:59:43 pm »
Thx, Ken. Really appreciate it. Will give it a shot tomorrow.
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Re: Easy way to tag photos in folders
« Reply #3 on: October 15, 2014, 12:47:13 am »
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JimH

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Re: Easy way to tag photos in folders
« Reply #4 on: October 15, 2014, 01:55:48 am »
One of the Library Tools can tag the files according to their directory names.  Experiment with a few copies first.
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jrdiandrea

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Re: Easy way to tag photos in folders
« Reply #5 on: October 15, 2014, 09:40:53 pm »
Thx to all for your suggestions. I was easily able to get the folder structure in MC. I'm in process of taging blocks of videos which is very time consuming and will take some trial & error but its much simpler this way than it would be without my folder structure groupings.
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connersw

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Re: Easy way to tag photos in folders
« Reply #6 on: October 16, 2014, 10:15:50 am »
This may be of use to you.  I use the following expression to automatically tag the Album Field during auto-import:

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ifelse(isequal([Media Type], Image), FileFolder(,0), isequal([Media Sub Type], Home Video), FileFolder(,0))
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jrdiandrea

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Re: Easy way to tag photos in folders
« Reply #7 on: October 19, 2014, 06:09:55 pm »
OK....I've gotten a lot of work done. Of course, still have lots more!

BIG question ..... for Photos I am using the folowing catagories in this sort order;

Album
Genre
Events
Place
Year

All photos are assigned to an album. Most to a genre. Some to an event.  Some to a place. All have year.

How do I "skip" a categorize for a group that may not have been assigned it? IE: for those groupings I have not assigned an event....how can I go straight from Genre to place or year (if it also doesn't have "place" assigned) to avoid "unassigned" folders?
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