...or another clever workaround. I thought I'd finally cracked the wireless workflow from my Nikon cameras. I have a new portable wireless router which has a USB port on it which can act as an FTP server. The cameras send the JPGs to the FTP server and I can see them on my tablet - the same USB drive is a share on the network - and edit them 'live' away from my desk. All good. What I want to be able to, though, is get back to my desk and have them sitting in Lightroom ready to work on. I tried pointing Auto Import at the USB share, but that's verboten because you can't Auto Import from a network drive because... Adobe. So I set up Dropit to watch the network drive - which it was quite happy to do - and copy any JPGs that appear to a local Auto Import folder and Lightroom happily finds them and imports them. And then Dropit scans the folder again, notices that the there are JPGs there that aren't in the Auto Import folder (because it's now empty) and copies them across again. Now, Lightroom's legendary ability to ignore duplicates should stop them being imported again but... it doesn't. And there doesn't appear to be any way to make it. So the files just keep being renamed, moved into the Lightroom folder and reimported. I thought I had a solution - moving them from the FTP folder to the Auto Import folder rather than copying them and then sharing the Lightroom folder on the network so that I can edit it directly on the laptop's drive. Sadly, I can't make the tablet see that folder. The only other solution I can think of is to have LR ignore the duplicates - but if there's a way to do that, I can't find it! Guy ... View more

Not just slow. Ludicrously, unusably, costing me money slow. Setup is an overclocked 3.1Ghz i7 (running up to 3.3GHz), 16Gb of RAM, SSD (mSATA Samsung 850 Pro) with OS, app and catalog on, second SSD (SATA 850 Evo) with photos on, cache on RAM disk. Windows 10 and LR 6.11. Exporting anything is painful, but the current example is 131 Nikon D4S and D810 files from RAW to 648 pixel wide <200k files (not my choice...). It's overwriting old versions and it took 20 minutes to bring up the 'Do you want to overwrite them?' dialog and has now been over an hour 'Preparing to Export'. Based on the previous batch, I would estimate that nothing will happen for about 40 minutes after the Preparing to export dialog disappears, then it will start exporting and take about an hour to actually do the export. Prior to the last update, I reckon that whole sequence would have been 5-10 minutes... I've optimised the catalog, but that didn't help. ... View more