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‎Sep 07, 2024
01:35 AM
richardplondon gave you the correct answer. Destructive editing is not possible with Lightroom. Staying with Adobe products, you would need to use Photoshop which does destructive editing.
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‎Nov 27, 2023
10:07 PM
Windows and Macs use two different naming conventions for disk drives and network drives. When you move the catalog from one to the other, you will need to remap the upper-most folder(s) to the correct name for that OS each time you do the move.
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‎Nov 27, 2023
10:00 PM
Never mind. Same author, new thread.
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‎Nov 27, 2023
09:50 PM
Lightroom organizes the presets into "groups" via the meta data in the xmp files. In the LrC UI, this is done via the "move" option in the right-click popup menu. If you open the XMP file in your favorite XML editor, you are looking for the "crs:Group" element. You can manually move the XMP files into sub-folders one level deep for your benefit, but LrC does not use the folders for any purpose, it uses only the group name.
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‎Oct 29, 2023
04:55 PM
At a quick glance, it looks like some rotation/straightening has been applied. Check to see if any of those settings might be applied in your import profile or in the original file from the camera. Anything of interest on the left side of the screen (cropped out from here)? Raw or JPG file? Which camera? Which version of Lightroom?
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‎Oct 29, 2023
04:42 PM
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Yes, the backups should be on a different drive from the originals. Otherwise, one drive failure takes the backups and originals all at once.
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‎Jul 25, 2023
04:33 PM
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A view of the email headers (all of the normally hidden server-to-server info) might be helpful.
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‎Jun 28, 2023
08:11 PM
One more thing to check:
From inside the import dialog, go to the Destination panel and verify that it is pointing to your desired location. When pointing to the wrong place, this accurate error message can come with a not-so-obvious reason why.
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‎Jun 28, 2023
07:59 PM
You have the right idea.
Find an old catalog that contains the old photos you want.
Open the old catalog using the new LrC to upgrade the catalog.
Verify that this upgraded catalog has the photos you want and properly locates the images.
Open your current master catalog, make a backup just in case.
"Import" the upgraded catalog into the current master catalog.
There may be some details you might have questions about. Feel free to ask.
The backup of your master catalog is important in case something goes wrong.
Which version of the Mac OS?
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‎Jun 22, 2023
04:12 AM
Unfortunately, the problem is with the OS not Lightroom.
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‎Apr 25, 2023
10:22 PM
Adding more data points...
Windows OS? Which version?
How big is the OS paging file?
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‎Apr 25, 2023
09:58 PM
If you are doing regular backups of the catalogs, you probably only need the last 5 or so for safety purposes.
The need for old catalogs may be about why they are old. If the old catalogs are from previous LR versions that got upgraded to new versions, then you don't need those nor their backups, nor the caches that go with them. (The caches may be where all the space is used.) Current versions of LR transfer the cache from the old catalog to the upgraded catalog.
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‎Feb 06, 2023
06:21 AM
Check the Folders panel in LR to see if there are missing folders. If there are, fix those first. LR knows the difference between missing files and files in missing folders.
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‎Jan 31, 2023
02:38 AM
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If you want to stay with version 6.x of LR, you can use the current Adobe DNG converter to convert the D780 NEF files to DNG and then import the DNG files into LR with no problems.
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‎Jan 31, 2023
02:31 AM
After you copied the photo folders, and the catalog support folders, and the catalog to the new drive, you opened the catalog on the new drive, right? (Looks like you opened a new empty catalog.)
After you open the correct catalog, in the Folders panel, do a "Find missing" on the top-most folders so that you can tell Lightroom where all the folders now reside. (Lightroom knows the difference between a missing file and a file in a missing folder; you need to fix the missing folders first.) Lightroom will autofix all the folders under the top folder you relocate.
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‎Jan 31, 2023
02:23 AM
Which number version of Lightroom?
Are you using any dev presets during the import that might have cropping turned on?
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‎Jan 17, 2023
11:18 PM
LR's Folders panel contains a reference to all the hard drive folders referenced by the imported images.
Right-click, "show in Finder" will take you to where LR thinks the folders exist on the hard drive. Hovering over the folder name may show the full path in a "tooltip" popup.
You images are not "in" the LR catalog. The catalog just references the files at their locations on the hard drive. You can right-click, "show in Finder" to see where LR thinks the files exist.
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‎Jan 08, 2023
02:39 PM
Mac or Windows? Which version number?
How much memory does the computer have?
How much free storage space is available on the image drive and the system drive?
Which version number of Lightroom?
What are the pixel dimensions of the image?
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‎Jan 08, 2023
02:13 PM
A trick that I picked up from here years ago is to import a junk picture into the folder you want as the root of your displaced folder tree. Any imports after that will auto-generate the shown folder tree as shown by your OS file browser.
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‎Oct 12, 2022
01:21 PM
Using Mac Finder, check the file system permissions on the destination drive and destination folder as listed in the LrC import screen. Sometimes, just opening that section of the import dialog fixes the problem.
Also check the security permissions for LrC in the Mac security program.
https://community.adobe.com/t5/lightroom-classic-discussions/quick-tips-how-to-give-full-disk-access-to-lightroom-classic-on-macos/td-p/12913413
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‎Oct 12, 2022
12:30 PM
How to move LrC to a new computer:
https://www.lightroomqueen.com/how-move-lightroom-to-new-computer/
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‎Jul 25, 2022
01:41 AM
Moving files to a new drive and importing images are two very different tasks that serve two very different purposes. To move the already imported files to a new drive, see option 2 in the link from Rob's message above.
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‎Jun 23, 2022
08:37 PM
Mac or Windows? Which version of the OS?
Macs does not naturally preserve the file timestamps when files are copied. I am on Windows, so I am not sure if Lightroom takes extra steps to preserve the file timestamps during the import on Macs. The EXIF data inside the files is still correct, right?
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‎May 05, 2022
06:14 PM
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Picked this up ages ago....
To help keep the folders in a tree view, import a single (junk) image in the root folder of your image organization.
Otherwise, doing a "show parent folder" on the imported folders may help.
I also find it way helpful to NOT use the Windows "pictures" folder as my images root. I have a "/from_camera" folder at the root of the drive.
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‎May 05, 2022
03:51 PM
What version of Lightroom Classic are you using?
What version of Lightroom Classic is your client using?
If your client sees the wrong icon for the RAR file type, it probably means that he has wrongly associated RAR files with Lightroom. He needs to use a RAR/ZIP utility to extract the catalog from the RAR file since Lightroom does not know what RAR files are.
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‎May 05, 2022
03:38 PM
Late to the party.....
Lots of good info here already about what is going on and the inherent limitations.
In general Lightroom does not do layering and the like. Thus, Lightroom will probably not be able to separate out the individual images even if the DNG file contained them. However, Photoshop does do layering and the like. Thus, if the individual images exist, maybe Photoshop can see them separately. (Lots of if/maybe/possibly stuff going on here.)
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‎Mar 17, 2022
01:46 AM
Are you directly connecting the camera to the computer or are you using a card reader?
(Using a card reader is the recommended method.)
Import-Add does not tranfer any files, so it is always fast.
What kind of timing do you get if you
- copy the files to a temp folder on your HD using Finder
- do an Import-Copy from the temp folder
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‎Feb 19, 2022
11:53 PM
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By "finding" a top-most folder, all the sub-folders will be auto-fixed.
If LR is not showing the folder hierarchy, right-click "show parent folder" in the folders panel (repeat as needed).
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‎Feb 18, 2022
04:40 AM
Mac or Windows? Which version of the OS?
Which exact version of LrC?
Describe in great detail the problems you are having.
If you are getting error messages, what is the exact wording?
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‎Feb 06, 2022
07:46 PM
1 Upvote
Mac or Windows? Which version of the OS?
Which exact version of Lightroom?
Which camera? Are you directly connecting the camera or using a card reader?
Which type of import? (add, copy, DNG)
Where are the destination files set to?
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