Is there a way to create keywords in lrc based on folders and sub-folders?

[gary_sc]

Let me give you an example: if I have a folder called USA, and a sub-folder called California, and in that, one sub-sub-folder is called San Diego while a second sub-sub-folder is called Los Angeles, is there any way for those names to be read so that the contained images' keywords to have "USA," "California," and some of them also have …, "San Diego," while others have …, "Los Angeles?"

I know how to do this manually, but I want to know if there's a faster/easier way to do this.

Thanks!

[dj_paige]

You can do this via Exiftool. You can search the internet for something like "Exiftool Folder Name to tag"

[gary_sc]

Hi DJ, HA! I started reading the instructions and it might be faster for me to do it by hand. 😄

Anyhow, I will take some coffee and time and sit through reading this through. If I can figure it out, it will save time. (I may come back with some questions — you have, after all, opened up Pandora's Box!)

Thanks!!

[dj_paige]

Better to post ExifTool questions in the Exiftool discussion forums.

[gary_sc]

Of course, 

Thanks

[hanomanob]

When You bulk import the session photos, You can give all photos of that session in the import dialog these keywords.

[gary_sc]

Thanks @hanomanob well, yes and no. In my example: yes, I could give them all California, but I could not give some of them Los Angeles and some of them San Diego. I could import them in shifts and do that, but here's where it gets complicated: that only works on bulk imports only. To parse all of the items from one locality prior to import is a challenge. Consider spending time over a couple of days in, say, Los Angeles. One may visit the Grifith Park Observatory, the Griffith park Zoo, The Norton Simon Museum, and the Huntington Museum. [Note: these are all within 10 miles of each other, so there's little travel time.] The way I prefer to store my images would have each of those in a separate folder, I would not lump them together in one folder.

To add to this, I have thousands of images already sorted in folders, and was hoping for an easy solution to this keywording issue. Sadly, as I looked at the brilliant Exiftool, and as I tried to keep my eyes from spinning, this isn't going to happen. I am grateful to @dj_paige for pointing it out to me, but it would take me more time to figure out how to do that than to do it manually. 

I was hoping for a "one-click wonder;" alas it's not to be.

Thanks to all

[dj_paige]

@gary_sc 

As I recall when I was trying to use ExifTool years ago, I posted a question in the ExifTool forum, and someone there provided the exact line of code to do what I was hoping for. It was extremely quick and worked perfectly. It's certainly worth a try. This required very little work on my part.

And then there is this:

[gary_sc]

Ah, there is hope! Thanks @dj_paige