How to export photos to a parent's subfolder with suffix

[lordcenzin]

Hi,

new user here but I am quite strong with other raw editors.

In my workflow I am used to create the main event folder (i.e. my_birthday) and create a subfolder for the raw files: ./my_birthday/my_birthday_RAW
Now I develop all photos in the _RAW folder but how can I export them in ./my_birthday/my_birthday_JPG?
Of course I would avoid to specify everytime manually the folder. Is there a way to create a preset doing this?

I am reading lots of pages and watching several tutorial without success.

Thanks in advance

[JohanElzenga]

You can save the destination folder in an export preset, and you can also rename files on export. What you cannot do however is rename a file named 'whatever_raw' to 'whatever_jpg'. The rename options do include adding a suffix to the file name, but not removing a suffix from the file name. As the file extension will already be .raw versus .jpg, there is no real reason to add '_raw' or '_jpg' to the file name.

[lordcenzin]

Thanks for the answer, but maybe my question was not clear. I am not asking about renaming files and I don't want to save a "fixed" destination folder.

I simply would like to know if it is possible to save developed files in a folder that has the same name of the parent folder (plus suffix). that's it. Of course I need some "meta-variable" mechanism to say "save in {parent_folder_name}/{parent_folder_name}_JPG"

I imagine this is not possible 😞

[JohanElzenga]

If you mean that the export preset reads the file name and then auto-selects a destination folder based on that file name, then that is indeed not possible.