Is there a way to import photos from an SD USB drive into a specific folder with Year, Month, Date?

[Sean22685595hfsa]

Previously, using Lightroom Classic, I could insert my SD card into it's USB reader, under the Import Command.  It would then import the photos and allow me to automatically insert them on a particular drive on my HDD, and under a certain folder structure (eg 2023) and would then insert the photos, in a folder like 2023-08-12   And any subsequent imports on different dates would be included in this same location as a seperate folder.

Now, using Lightroom, I can not find a way to replicate this.  It will allow me to point it to the 2023 folder, but will insert the photos straight into that folder, rather than create a date specific folder as a sub-folder in that main 2023 folder.

[Jim Wilde]

Are you using the new "Local" feature of Lightroom? If so, you can only "save" the SD card images into a single specified folder, there does not seem to be an option to automatically create dated sub-folders like in Lightroom Classic.

If you are instead using the standard "Cloud" tab in Lightroom, there you can only import images into a designated Album (we have no visibility of the actual physical folder structure that Lightroom uses in the cloud).

[Sean22685595hfsa]

Thanks Jim,

This is what I discovered, and it's a real shame. Hopefully Adobe's
developers can rectify this. In the meantime, I found a work around by
scouring the net, from a third party developer who have a freeware app
called FastStone Image Viewer. This allows you to import your photos
directly onto a specific folder location and at your command, will create a
sub-folder in whichever format you prefer. In my case, Year-Month-Date.
Here is a screenshot of it. Maybe Adobe can use this info to
develop something similar?

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NB: on the Import Photos and Videos dialogue box, it's showing Location
(Not Found), but when I insert a USB stick or in my case, my SD card into
my USB SD card reader, it shows that drive in the Location tab.

Cheers,
Sean

[Sean22685595hfsa]

This is what the FastStone Image Viewer look like.