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Wed, Nov 30, 2011 10:42 PM
Lightroom: No suspected duplicates when imported from catalog and some imported photos don't show in Library
I freequently use å laptop in addition to my computer at home. Once, I imported a group of photos from one shoot to the laptop, adjusted them in Lightroom. Then I eksported them as a Catalog, to get the adjustments over to my home computer, where I imported the photos from Catalog.
Next time I connected the camera CF-card, the previous photos could be imported again. Lightroom did not suspect duplicates the same way as when photos are imported from the card. How can that be?
Also, a friend of mine were importing av portrait/landscape mix of scanned photos, but all the portrait photos did not show in Library. How can that be? She sent me a few, and I did the import without any problems, std jpeg files and no errors.
Regards
Arnold
Next time I connected the camera CF-card, the previous photos could be imported again. Lightroom did not suspect duplicates the same way as when photos are imported from the card. How can that be?
Also, a friend of mine were importing av portrait/landscape mix of scanned photos, but all the portrait photos did not show in Library. How can that be? She sent me a few, and I did the import without any problems, std jpeg files and no errors.
Regards
Arnold
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JeffreyTranberry
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jim_burgess
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9 years ago
The problem is reproducible on the Mac version with this scenario:
On a Macbook Pro, import a set of images from a memory card to a folder named "~/Pictures/2011/11-29.
Rename the folder to "11-29 Anyname".
Export the folder as a catalog, including the negative files (as they are referred to).
Copy the folder to a Mac Pro.
Do a File Import from Catalog with file handling set as Copy Photos to New Location. The new location is "volume/2011-2012/CategoryName".
The photos are imported properly into "volume/2011-2012/CategoryName/2011/11-29 Anyname".
Note that none of the original filenames have been changed.
Now import the same memory card that was used on the Macbook Pro.
All of the images on the memory card are available for import. And it does't matter if New Images is selected, or if "Don't import suspected duplicates" is checked.
So it appears that if a set of images has been imported from a catalog, then they are not treated as duplicates in a subsequent import of the same images from the original memory card.
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arnold_hoddevik
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9 years ago
Then, next time I connected the same card with the same photos on, there were no suspected duplicates.
When importing directly from the card/camera, this works completely different. I always change filenames using my own template preset. Next time I connect the card, Lightroom always discover suspected duplicates, even thou the file names in Lightroom and the card are different.
So I bouth wonder what the mecanism is, and why it works differently.
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arnold_hoddevik
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9 years ago
The only date Lightroom could find on the portrait photos, were edit date, three years after capture date. So Lightroom sorted the photos nicely in different folders, landscape photos in folder 'capture date' and portrait photos in folder 'edit date' (three years after capture date. I found this by looking at latest import and Show in Explorer. - Nice.
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beat_gossweiler
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9 years ago
Import into Catalog1 -> Export as Catalog to Catalog2 -> Import from Catalog into Catalog3:
143494041:WR9H0028.CR2:15232206
143494041:WR9H0028.CR2:15232206
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robert_kiessling
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8 years ago
Here's a little Perl script that copies the importHashes from one catalog to another.
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rob_cole_2221866
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8 years ago
Don't get me started..
A big thank you to Robert for sharing the repair script.
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xvrl
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5 years ago
It's still a problem in Lightroom CC/6, and makes it hard to work on a separate catalog when traveling
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xvrl
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5 years ago
Lightroom does not seem to preserve duplicate file information when importing photos that were exported from another catalog.
Steps to reproduce:
1. Open catalog A
2. Import new photos from card reader into catalog A
3. Export some of those photos from catalog A into catalog "A-export" using "export as catalog"
4. Open catalog B
5. Import photos from "A-export" into catalog B using "import from catalog"
6. Import photos into catalog B from same card / card reader as in step 2, making sure to check "ignore suspected duplicates"
Expected Result:
Photos already imported in step 2. should be marked as duplicates when importing from card reader into catalog B. The corresponding information should have been preserved when exporting and importing from catalog A.
Actual Result:
Photos already imported through catalog A are not marked as duplicates and reimporting would create duplicate copies in catalog B. Some of the information available about the original file names got lost when exporting and importing from catalog A.
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actionboll
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5 years ago
Kind of sad this was discovered years and years ago and it's still an issue.
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charles_waugh
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5 years ago
It's simple - I want to actually have LR reflect what is on my disk (just like a REAL librarian would do with books on a shelf and cards in a catalog).
But, if I have the same file twice - it won;t show up!
So, managing multiple websites that use the same file is impossible in LR. I have to use some other method.
Bummer - or dumber... not sure which.
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