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Import to a specific folder then by YYYY-MM-DD

Marc Baril
This may be a basic question but I can't find an easy way to setup all my imports to import to a specific folder then by YYYY-MM-DD. Every time I import I have to go and manually create the folder on my drive and then find that folder in the import window. I wish I could set that up once and not have to worry about this anymore. Am I missing something??
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  • Benjamin Liddle
    In the Import Images dialog, set your Destination to the 'specific folder'. In the Sub Folder field, set it to "[Image Year (yyyy)]-[Image Month (MM)]-[Image Day of the Month (dd)]" where the items in brackets are tokens. You may need to select the variation on the nomenclature by clicking the down arrow in the token. This will create subfolders based on the image-specific capture date EXIF data.

    If you're looking to replace them with the current date (aka the date you're importing them), simply use the Current Year, Current Month, etc tokens instead. This will use the system's date rather than the capture date.

    For more insight into tokens to create dynamic paths, check out this blog post by Jim:
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  • Marc Baril
    Ok so I create and save my user preference for sub folder as per your suggestion using 3 tokens image YYYY etc.
    Still now everytime I import I still have to manually select the folder. It defaults to c:/users/pictures and the folder I want to use isn't in the recently used paths.
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  • Benjamin Liddle
    Are you working in a session or a catalog?
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  • Marc Baril
    Catalog
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  • Benjamin Liddle
    The last chosen folder will default to the Destination field after it's been chosen.
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  • Marc Baril
    It doesn't I have to select it every single time
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