Using the work round of directly adding a new folder name to
Rather than using Creat New folder works every time. BUT this is a work round and shows the bug is in the creat New Folder part of creation and saving in PL. Is there any prograess with this?
This looks like it might be different from Mac to Windows.
On a MacâŠ
There is no option to rename a folder whilst creating it as the name is typed into a small dialog and that is added to the target folder. The only way to rename it would be in Finder.
The full process that in Windows which has the all to high failure rate to add the created folder to the actual save path is click on Export to Disk
Which brings up the save to options which includes
at the end of Path is a folder shown that opens up
From this you can create a new folder and rename it. It should it add the newly created folder to the end of the save to path but its unreliable. All to often it adds New Folder to the path, and you find if you forget to check befor saving you have saved into the New Folder and your renamed new folder is created, but empty there as well.
The workaround is OK when saving to new folders within an existing path, if you want to change that you have to go back to the create new folder and hope it works. This has been a windows problem for years, I get it on 2 laptops and a new tower. For me itâs a pain as I save processed images to see how well they have worked and take them from there.
Thatâll be the equivalent of clicking on the folder drop-down and gettingâŠ
⊠which then leads to the folder choice dialog where you can only create a folder but not edit its name.
What youâre finding looks like a very poor Windows routine, which may well be bugged.
Iâve been bagging away about the poor windows interface programing for a long time. Some of the bugs have been fixed, failing to remove all the dopâs when deleted in PL but folder creation which I am convinces is linked to the original poor programing is getting nowhere. I have never used a program that miss handles folder creation and saving as poorly as in PL!
No problem here.
As said, one has to rename the standard entry ânewâŠâ straight away.
Doing so outside of PL does NOT change the registered path, but remains â ânewâŠâ.
Similar case, when to rename a folder with pics and sidecars, do it within PLâs Library.
It not the renaming itâs the newly named folder being added to the save to path that often missing. Naming had never been the problem. I have also never created folders to be saved to out side of pl
Hi John,
Iâve noticed your post has been going for quite a while now - but, to be honest, Iâve never really understood your issue/problem ⊠other than PL is not doing something that you want it to do (?)
Can you please explain the end outcome youâre wanting to achieve (without going thru the detail of what youâre trying to do). That may then help us to offer a solution - and/or, to understand your problem.
Regards, John M
When folder is created in creat folder itâs added every time to the save to path in place of most times but not all. To prevent when that happens your save going to a new folder and the named one you add left empty.
Mmmm - It seems to work fine for me.
Why are you creating a new folder (from within PL) ?
John
If I may add - why are you renaming new folders (from within PL)?
I export to test images and load them onto some Facebook sites. To make it easier they gointo s folder named as the raw folder is. But the options are there in PL and should work properly if there, it shouldnât require me to justify why I am using them!
We are not asking for justification, just a better explanation.
If you are claiming to have found a shortcoming that nobody else has found, then I would suggest that whatever you are doing is going against the accepted way of working the everybody else is using. And, so far, you havenât been able to concisely express what you are doing, in such a way that anyone else can reproduce.
Any explanation has to be exhaustive, step by step, with screenshots at every stage and comments explaining exactly what each and every step involves, including why you are doing it; if you are ever going to hope for a solution.
You have never explained what both the source and destination folder hierarchies are or, even if they are on the same disk.
Post 25 went through what I am doing (as have others) and that time a screen shot of the save Path showed it ending up with New Folder not the created Garden one. The test folder is on the desk top so drive C. All I do is use the provided creat new folder option in PL under Export to Disk frustratingly I do nothing odd like use a removable disk (though PL should cope with that as well) just use a save option with in PL. But this is a problem on this, my laptops and was existing years back on an old replaced laptop as well (probably pry PL). I was told DXO was going to look into it, but never have
John, may I take you back to post Create option folders not being saved to - #37 by Wolfgang please.
You tried it and your answer was âitâs a workaroundâ and that the mistake would be in DxOâs field.
I reread the whole thread. But you still experience, that all the arguing doesnât bring you forward.
So â please try what I showed you (and what already worked).
Then, the next time you restart PhotoLab, the subfolder [ \xyz ] is still there.
I understood, you use it as your standard folder, from where you upload pics to the web.
Wolfgang
Thanks, I am using workrounds now but they do not change the fact there is a outstanding problem in using the creat a new folder in the Export to Disk in that its not always adding the new folder to the save path.
Yes, thatâs fair enough, John - - but Iâm trying to understand the outcome/purpose youâre trying to achieve ⊠and itâs still not completely clear to me. All the same, Wolfgangâs solution seems to provide the best answer.
John M
I am using one of the workarounds, the object is to get the provided ability to create new folders with in PL via Export to Disk to constantly add the created folder to the save to path. To my mind the same could be said about why has so much effect been expended on the DAM problems, the easy workaround that many of us use is not to use PLâs DAM it but use an external DAM. The results we whant are the same to get PL to actually do what its meant to do constantly. The DAM problems are of a larger scale than the create new folder one but the same a missed bug/s in save to and DAM have unintended results which need correcting.
I am still at a loss to understand exactly the order you are doing things when you talk about renaming a folder. This is not a normal part of using the new folder dialog, unless you mean changing the default âNew Folderâ to something more meaningful at the moment when you are shown it highlighted.
If I am wrong, please show screenshots from the moment you click on the folder in the âPathâ field - one shot both before and after you do every step. From everybody elseâs experience there doesnât seem to be a problem so, in order to make any further progress, you need to be extremely precise about everything single thing you are doing, in sequence, to produce the problem you perceive
I think I know whatâs the problem.
Here are my steps.
My start position is opening the export dialog:
Next I want to create a new folder within an existing one:
I click on âcreate new folderâ:
Next I type the name of the new folder âOutputâ:
And immediately press the button OK
The export to disk window shows:
So telling to save to ânieuwe mapâ instead of âOutputâ. But PL creates a new folder with the name âOutputâ
But if you do the same steps and just wait a few seconds before you press the button OK, then the export to disk window shows what is created:
