Adding additional pictures to a Lightroom folder

I am not sure it is possible to do this:
If I import a folder of pictures into Lightroom, and then I realize that I wish I had also imported other picture into that same folder, is it possible to add more pictures too an "Already" imported folder.
Also, If I delete a picture from the lightroom folder (not from the disk) can that picture be restored back into the folder?

Yes on the first. I think so on the second. It might depend on how you deleted it.

Yes to both.

Just do an import, pick the folder and make sure it's set not to import duplicates.

If you remove items from a a folder (but don't delete from disk) you can import them again later.

Thanks guys,
I appreciate the response.

There is also another way:
Manually put the photo file in the folder using Explorer/Finder (or save to that folder from another application) and then in the Library module > Folder tree right-click the folder and select synchronize. Any files (Raw, DNG, jpg, tiff, psd) that are not already in the catalog will be imported.

Yes, synchronizing the folder is an easy way to import new photos in a folder.

Also, if you want to import from a card or other source you can right-click on a folder in the library window and there will be an option to import to this folder.

guntoter wrote in post #18248732
If I delete a picture from the lightroom folder (not from the disk) can that picture be restored back into the folder?

In Lightroom you can remove a pic from the library/catalog without deleting it from your drive, it will be visible in your system explorer, but no longer in Lightroom.

However, it's straightforward to delete an image in Lightroom and it removes it from the system.

So, anytime you want to do something "essential", make sure you know what you are doing, use forethought!

tonylong wrote in post #18249020
. . . it will be visible in your system explorer, but no longer in Lightroom.

Hey, Tony!

What is a system explorer?

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Tom Reichner wrote in post #18249029
Hey, Tony!

What is a system explorer?

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Well, it would be the file/folder explorer/browser, in Windows it's Windows Explorer, but I know you are a Mac user, I'm not, so I don't know about Macs, although I do believe that there is a straightforward approach to browsing your files, right?

Finder

In Mac the system installed file browser is called Finder, in Windows it was called Windows Explorer, well at least since Windows 3.1 for Workgroups in about 1992 through to I think Windows 8.2. I went from Win 7 direct to Win 10 so never really used any Win 8 version. With the introduction of Windows 10 they renamed it File Explorer. It does the same job, and mostly works the same, although it now offers a quick access section based on your most commonly accessed files and folders when you open it. As well as the system installed file browser program there are many other file browser programs that are available, often with specialist or optimised functionality for certain areas of use. There are even those that exist because some people just don't like how the system's offering works. I'm glad I don't use OSX a lot, since I would need to find an alternative to Finder, since I find it very clunky, almost as if they haven't improved it at all since I was using one of the little all in one Apple systems, with the 9" monochrome screen, and a slot for a 3.5" floppy, with no eject button, in a university electronics lab for Spice simulation back in 92, and they were old systems back then.

Possibly the most well known alternative file browser available for photographers is Adobe's Bridge, which is optimised for use with all of Adobe's Creative Suite programs. Probably the most useful feature over the two system alternatives is that it shows thumbnails for all of Adobe's proprietary file types. From a photography point of view that would be .PSD files, but if you use some of the other programs seeing the thumbnail is very useful. Since I use InDesign, the Desk Top Publishing program, quite a bit seeing the thumbnail of the front cover of the document is quite helpful, visual scanning of images is much easier than scanning for file names, especially when most of the space is given over to showing either a thumbnail or icon in a lot of file manager default configurations.

Alan

I use Windows Explorer all the time (Win7) because, well, first I've been using it for all these years, since Windows first came out with an explorer, don't ask me which year!

But I don't mind using it because it's fine for browsing for any anything and everything. I have my folder/files set up so that I can easily look for whatever, whether it be jpegs I've exported for the Web, or movies I want to watch, or documents I've been working on, whatever, stuff that won't show up in Bridge or Lightroom, but I have quick access to them. And I can do whatever I want with them, whether it be to back them up, delete them, copy or move them, easy stuff.

For images, though, that is for my "working" Library images, I pretty much stick to Lightroom because LR integrates all the things I want/need to do with those images/files. For those, I don't want or need another browser, and in fact, without some special software the Windows Explorer can't "see" the jpeg images embedded in Raw files and so I just don't bother. For jpegs that I've exported for the Web or other uses, yeah, I use Explorer, it sees the thumbnails and is functional. Lightroom doesn't "see" the jpegs, so it's a no-brainer to just switch to Explorer for such things.

tonylong wrote in post #18249038
Well, it would be the file/folder explorer/browser, in Windows it's Windows Explorer, but I know you are a Mac user, I'm not, so I don't know about Macs, although I do believe that there is a straightforward approach to browsing your files, right?

Well, yeah. The only files I have are image files, and I view all of the photo files in Photos (the program). That's the only place where the photo exist, except for the backups I make.

The screen shots that I have I save on the desktop. I think that the thing I call desktop is what others are referring to as "Finder", although I don't know why we need another name for it - it is simply "the desktop" to me.

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The desktop is what you see w/ nothing running..usually has program/app icons to launch your programs.

The "finder" is actually called the File Explorer and how you browse for files you want.

You have no text files? No letters, notes, receipts, bills, pdf instructional or educational files? I receive every month many documents attached to emails - bank statements, credit card lists of purchases, copies of shipping orders, receipts and statements of VAT paid by stores, utilities and services. I also write short articles for a local newspaper and do translations to English of learned philosophical treatises written by my son-in-law the PHD and of a book being written by my son-in-law the crime scene reporter for the evening news

You have no music stored digitally in MP3 format? No videos, neither porn nor straight?

Well, if you can "imagine a world" (as Christiane Amenpour says - you do have a TV, don't you) where no one reads, writes or saves these communications. you must be its prime resident.
Should you ever fall into being forced to store non-photo files, those that are outside the purview of Photo, Finder - an index of the contents of your computer will be great aid.