This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
Folders
You can also add another level of organizational structure to your Event Library: folders. Folders are simply a way to group elements in events to simplify your view.
Strangely, you cannot stick individual clips inside folders. Folders can hold only collections.
To create a folder
- Select an event in the Event Library.
Right-click the event and choose New Folder
, or press Shift-Command-N.
Right-click the event, and choose New Folder.A new empty folder is added to the event
.
A new folder is added to the event.- Click the name of the folder, and type a name
.
Rename the folder something useful.
To add items to a folder
- Drag Keyword Collections, Smart Collections, or other folders into the folder
.
Drag collections or other folders into the folder. Don’t bother trying to drag individual clips; inexplicably, folders can hold only collections of clips.
The items are added to the folder 
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The items are added to the folder.
To remove an item from a folder
- Drag the item from the folder onto the event name.
The item is moved from the folder back into the root of the event.
To delete a folder
- Select the folder and press Command-Delete.