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Scrolling the folders panel via keyboard?

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July 7, 2020
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Hi, I'm a longtime Lightroom user but this is my first post in the forum. Is there a way to navigate the folders panel in the library module using the keyboard? e.g. arrow up or down like you do in the Finder?

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johnrellis

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"And I cant widen this panel to see the names of the directories that LR helpfully created."

On Mac, hold down Opt while you drag the column divider to the right, and you can make the column much wider.

(That feature broke in Windows 10 and Adobe hasn't fixed it, but there is a simple workaround.)

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johnrellis

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"My folders panel is so long, and the folders I think I want to see are below the bottom of the screen, and I can't find a simple way to scroll the view on a Mac."

The individual panels in the left column don't have scroll bars, but the entire column has one:

Ditto for the right column.

If you're not seeing that, please post a full-resolution screenshot of your LR window, so we're all on the same page of what you're seeing.

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johnrellis

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I sometimes find it useful too to move quickly from folder to folder and collection to collection, which is why I implemented that feature in Any Source.

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99jon

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The arrow keys are used for moving around the grid. Folder search has been improved. So if you know a name or word in a folder, type it into the search box. Lr will even find sub-folders.

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PabloF50Author

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Thanks. Please see my reply to Just Shoot Me, above

johnrellis

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"e.g. arrow up or down like you do in the Finder?"

The Any Source plugin has commands for going to the next and previous folder in the Folders panel (and the next/previous collection in the Collections panel). You can assign keyboard shortcuts to those commands (I've assigned Ctrl-N and Ctrl-P on my Mac.)

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PabloF50Author

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Thank you, I will try that. Amazing however that such a simple navigation command is not available in Lightroom

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GarnetChaney

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Arrrghhh... This problem is getting deeper. A friend says he has scrollbars on his folders panel, and I don't.

I just accidentally did a move of years of screenshots into a working directory (instead of an add), and now I cant get to what I want. And I cant widen this panel to see the names of the directories that LR helpfully created. I can narrow the panel, but not widen it. I really hate when softwarre has "wisdom" like this to prevent me from doing something like widening a panel. Is it my computer, or does my computer belong to some developer who thinks he knows better by putting such a limitation. Sigh... See comments on this thread for the ongoing battle......

I am afraid to sync the folder in lightroom, the sync says it will add 11 new pictures. Those are the original pictures that were supposed to be the only thing in the folder, and I did a lot of editing of one of the pictures, afraid to lose my edits if LR thinks the moved (outside of LR, because I cant get to them within the LR folder panel) are new pictures, instead of being the pictures it already saw earlier....

Losing a lot of time this morning on this, going on an hour...... Additional comments about trying to solve this are here:

https://www.facebook.com/garnetchaney/posts/3994458273929950

GLORY BE!

The scrollbar for this panel is hiding on the LEFT side of the panel. Never seen a scrollbar before on the left side of a panel. Whew!

If you think the folders pane is missing it's scrollbar, the folders are just a part of the left panel, the scrollbar is for the entire list of things in the left panel like Navigator, Folders, Collections, Publish Services, etc. So the folders is not a panel of its own, it is just a "pane".

Much happier! Wish I could make that panel wider than it is, but scrolling will at least get me going.

Anyone have any ideas for dealing with folders nested too deeply that you cant see their names because of the narrow width of the left hand panel?