P: Allow Mobile Downloads.lrdata to be moved to another location

Hi,
I think that all "hot" fixes, like redirect and virtual paths, will be a problem at some point, due to an upgrade or whatever.

If you are using a removable drive to run lightroom on different computers, the best solution would be to have the posibillity to store everything at the same place as the catalog. Adobe should investigate this, the path for catalogs and photos are handled this way, why not handle the syncronized photos the same way.

Here is an Evernote document that describes how to relocate "Mobile Downloads.lrdata" on a Windows 7 system.

http://www.evernote.com/l/AAl-28xG_cR...

Dear Adobe-Team,
it would be great, if Lightroom (PC) would allow to change the folder of the mobile downloads, as they are currently only stored on the system drive, which is seldom used for image data and usually lacks available space. I have not yet found a way to change the folder other than to copy the images manually to another drive.

The fantastic thing with Lightroom is that your picture-files gets organized in the folder structure that you choose and can be stores on multiple drives. One of the best thing with Lightroom mobile was possibility to to also easily import pictures from these devices.

Problem is that the pictures imported from mobile app from the mobile devices is automatically stored inside a file named 'Mobile Downloads.irdata' that is not a folder. Biggest problem is that you can't tell Lightroom to store these pictures on a different drive then startup drive. I don't want Lightroom to fill up my small and quick SSD startup drive. I also want to make LR to keep catalog and all originals on the same drive so I can easily bring it along and use it on a different computer running LR. This must clearly be something to fix in next version of LR.

Thanks Dan, for elaborating the procedure in Windows.

Now we just need somebody to do the same for Mac ;-}.

Just as Rob says. See http://www.evernote.com/l/AAl-28xG_cR...

OK. Here is an Evernote document that describes how to relocate "Mobile Downloads.lrdata" on a Windows 7 system.

http://www.evernote.com/l/AAl-28xG_cR...

Try a link:

1. Move existing folder to preferred location.
2. in Windows command shell, execute

mklink /j "{current-location}" "{preferred-location}"

(on Mac, it's the ln command, executed in 'Terminal' window)

Rob

All of my catalog and photo files are on a dedicated disk, for ease of backup, and for synchronization across different machines.

It would be very helpful to locate "Mobile Downloads.lrdata" on that disk too, so that its contents will be included in backups and in synchronization with other systems.

This is a big problem for me, compounded by the fact that there's no feature within Lightroom to organize folders after "import." I store my photos on a NAS, but my Lr catalog is on my boot drive. I LOVE Lr Mobile and use it to Auto Import pics from my iPhone into Lr. Brilliant! Except that they go straight to my boot drive in the same folder as the Lr catalog, not to my NAS photo folder. I'm manually organizing them with drag/drop within Lr - uggh!

I could perhaps live with the fixed location if Lr had a feature to re-organize photos based on metadata or other criteria - like when doing an import from outside Lr.

Please, Adobe! Give us the option to decide where our Auto Import photos are stored!

Thanks