Viewing uncategorized photos in lightroom

[jorgemonkey]

Title says about it all. Is there a way to view all the uncategorized photos that have been imported into Lightroom? I'm in the process of changing my photo catalog into Lightroom, and it would nice to be able to see if I missed anything.

[SmartWombat]

What do you mean by uncategorised?
How do you categorise them?

[jorgemonkey]

Ah, I'm used to my other program. I'm in the process of adding keywords to all the images. I'd like to be able to see a list or thumbnails of the images that haven't been key worded yet.

[drg]

Scott,

In the Library module of Lightroom in the Left Panel, the top selection will read Navigator, the next one reads Library. In the Library sub-menu you will see All Photographs and then a number. That can be selected to display all the photographs in the current Catalog. The number is the total photographs that are currently in the catalog.

To go to and access other catalogs you will need to go File at the top and switch.

It is easier to assign as many keywords and make choices about 'tagging' at the time of import than later.

I've come to think of LR as a 'reverse' browser. You suck everything in and give some additional tags (remember it will take all you EXIF data and you can search by that also) and then Remove the images you don't want stored/indexed/etc. Just do not Delete them, as that will take them off the drive as well.

Does this help?

[SmartWombat]

a list or thumbnails of the images that haven't been key worded yet

I'm going to try to find how to do that.
It may be easier to find all those that are keyworded, add a colour flag to them, and then select all the images that are not colour flagged.

[drg]

Sorry Scott, I didn' read all of your second entry.

This is as easy as the first:
1. Library Module
2. Left Panel
3. Navigator, Library, and Find (top to bottom)
4. In Find:
- Check the Text Box
- Select Keywords
- Select Are Empty

The pictures that pop up should be the ones you are lookng for in that Catalog. Make sure you have selected All if something doesn't bubble up that you think should.

Lightroom is inherently non-destructive so you can play around and still undo or get back to the beginning if you create some strange flag set or other 'condition'.

Really consider adding keywords to images as you import them. Even if it is something simple like location or name of the type of event. After 10's or 100's of thousand of photos it will make a difference!!

What else can I help you find in the Lightroom?

[jorgemonkey]

Ah, that sounds like it should work. I made the mistake of importing them by year, yes all of 2004 at once, then all 2005 at once, etc. So now I'm going through month by month to finish the job. When I import new photos, I'm adding keywords at that point, and I'm backing up my catalog often so if the program crashes, I won't have to do it again.

[SmartWombat]

Ah, just found the same thing.
After Lightroom crashed 4 times

[SmartWombat]

My catalog is set to backup every week.
I then backup the Lightroom catalog folder every day from my internal HD to the NAS.
That includes the backups, as well as the live files.

[SmartWombat]

Lightroom 2.0 has made it easier ...