Thank you both for your replies. Not sure if this changes anything but the files are on my external archive drive. I never brought them into LrC because they were for a subcontracting job so I do not have copyrights and typically do not bring any shots like that into my catalog. In this case though I needed to put a quick portfolio together of that work for a prospective client. I have 1:1 previews set up because it is easiest for how I work but those do add up after a while (just cleaned out my internal drive two days ago). I ended up using 15 images of ~300 imported for this endeavor. I do not think I selected that "include subfolders" option, though I am aware of its existence and use it pretty often. Typically I just import everything, rather than culling because I'm importing files I have the rights to and want to have in my catalog. I'll make sure that option is selected next time as that makes sense why the selections would only be importing from one of the many folders I selected from.  ... View more

Ok so another variation of this question... Dragging these files into my folder that reminds me to register the batch of images with the US Copyright Office at the end of the quarter...There's already images in that folder that I have published so far this quarter. When I dropped them into there (already images added, sort order set to "custom") they, again, rearrange order. I know this doesn't follow step 2 but in this scenario I see no workaround. Is there one? ... View more

This worked. Thank you! Also during this process realized I accidentally had the bar that houses sort order hidden which made everything more confusing. ... View more

What I am realizing is that after I added the color grade as recommended [edit: to the batch of 60+ photos all at once] and want to now adjust intensity on individual images, the fader doesn't show up [edit: when an individual photo is selected] unless I click the preset again. It is applying the color grade again on top of the existing grade though because before I click the preset, I can toggle the color grade on and off in the the develop module on the right. I am, in most cases trying to reduce the grade and make it a bit more subtle. Should I be looking somewhere other than the User Presets list on the left so that I can adjust the already-applied color grade intensity?  ... View more

Thank you for the quick reply and for sharing your knowledge here. I actually meant "collection" rather than "folder"so apologies for the confusion there.   The screenshot you included is what I saw after making virtual copies – same order just every other image. I then dragged into the other collection I made that would house the virtual copies only. Once dragged there, they were in a totally different order. This has happened before and it drives me nuts. Jsut spent 30 minutes or so getting them in the correct order.   I had no idea about the original/virutal copies sorting option. That is very useful to know about.   Unfortunately, the way I edit, sometimes in the set that I would refer to as the "original" set, there actually are virtual copies interspersed, if for example I make a second crop to include for the final export. As a result, some of the wrong edits would be included if filtering for copies only. So while it doesn't solve the issue I am having, I do appreciate that knowledge as I will most likely use that for a different scenario in the future. ... View more

Somehow missed this when you initially posted. Just tried it and it works. Thank you! ... View more

For additional context: I have tried to just ignore the suggestions and type through them. But I often end up with some funky results like the suggestion inserted somewhere in the middle of all the manually typed characters. It's really clunky and chaotic and seems pretty unnecessary - aren't titles typically unique to a photo anyway? Tags, on the other hand...makes sense to suggest them because it's likely people will reuse those. I hope there's a way to turn this feature off... ... View more

Bummer. Your plugin still seems to put me a step closer to organizing the files better though so I appreciate your help! ... View more

Thank you for this suggestion. Sounds like what I am looking for. Can the filenames upon export be named after those dates via the plugin too? ... View more

Thanks for the reply. Does that mean that it currently is not the default? Pretty sure I set it a while ago but maybe it's not working anymore. ... View more

any ideas? ... View more

CORRECTION: Screencapture: https://youtu.be/BYYc58UMr-k Files: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/nfmk7z85uu1c9ci/AACfYOdvfZ50Js7JkROm8FIya?dl=0  ... View more

It is still happening so I will link to both a video of it happening and the files that it was happening with in the video. If you watch the video you can see that there are four files and the first two (exposures with light fixtures on) are on different profiles. In the third and fourth (exposures with light fixtures off) you can see the profile switching back to the correct one in the video as well. Here are the links. I look forward to your feedback. Screencapture: https://youtu.be/BYYc58UMr-k Files: https://youtu.be/BYYc58UMr-k  ... View more

So shortly after this thread was created the computer crashed and it was most likely the GPU. It did not recover from the crash and can only run in safe mode which disables the Radeon Pro 5500M graphics card. While I haven't done much testing, I am going to assume that it was likely the hardware causing erratic, unexpected behavior because there were odd media linking issues in Davinci Resolve as well a day before and crashes when using external displays - all GPU-intensive tasks. If the lens profile issue continues to be a problem on the new machine, I will upload files here and try to update. For now though I am happy with Catalina and not having to rework all of my customizations on the OS that a move to Ventua would entail. Once a harware upgrade in the future forces me to upgrade, I will deal with that process. Thank you for the help! ... View more

Thank you for your response. I will send as soon as I can. I experienced a system crash just after I posted here initially. Something was damaged and I am not sure what yet but I cannot use LRC anymore due to excessive visual glitches and freezing/crashing. ... View more

It varies between these two. Each one has an option in that third category and Lighroom changes it on some of them and not others but all were from the same camera on the same lens taken within the same composition (I'm compositing images so they were all taken seconds apart within each batch). I'll get into PS after a export as layers in PS or whatever that option is in LRC and all will have one profile except, say, one image and it will ruin the compositing I'm doing. Then I go back to LRC to investigate and as I click through the individual exposures I'll see LRC changing the Profile to the other one in front of my eyes. I also tried preemtively changing them all after I noticed so that I could export to PS without issues but that didn't stop LRC from being wonky still. So to answer your question, it changes it automatically but I also manually changed it as a way to just get through my work today.   ... View more

Thanks for this super detailed response. Interesting background/history on the profiles. At this point what I am still unsure of is why there still seems to be barrel distortion with both options. Does that mean there is some other issue going on? The ID MKIII is less distorted but still not great...unless that building is wonky. ... View more

Sure, here's one of the files: https://www.dropbox.com/s/dv6eybzb480c9cw/BR6A7286.CR3?dl=0 ... View more

Thanks for your comment. I shoot in RAW + JPG on all cameras. Then I edit the RAWs. Usually delete the JPGs on import but I keep them for my R6 since my laptop cannot read CR3s in Finder. Unless LR is grabbing the JPG instead of the CR3 or something along those lines, I don't think the JPG is the issue. ... View more

Good point! I guess it gets exaggerated when corrected for perspective. I'll look into the lens profile issue. Thanks! ... View more

Possibly...here's the options I have selected (see screenshots). I am shooting with the lens selected 17-40 f/4 L and neither bodys offered are my camera (Canon EOS R6). Shooting with the EF/RF adapter. ... View more

Thank you for all of your responses. I realize I was a bit vague so here's some more info... To clarify, my process is: - drag photos from Finder to LRC - import window opens - create a collection to import these selected photos into via the import window - click import - LRC starts importing to the collection and brings me to "All Photos" instead of the collection that the photos are being imported into - I then scroll through hundreds of collections to find the collection and edit there  OR - I don't realize it didn't go to the collection and edit in "All Photos" which causes issues later finding HDR and pano images   So to recap, this is an issue because sometimes I do not realize this and I end up creating HDRs and Panos that go into the "all photos" instead of the collection that they should be in. LAter when I look for them I cannot find them or I re-edit photos. It's equally my fault and equally unintuitive workflow. So I am wondering if there is a solution to change this default behavior and have the program go to the collection imported to every time. ... View more