John, thanks for your quick response.  I was afraid of that!  Yes, on the Mac.  I can't believe that two major Adobe products, LR and ID can conflict like that.  For my work, it makes using LR useless, and I just started importing... In the window you embedded, the second line suggests that LR will replace a / or : with a dash , but it doesn't.  Is this supposed to be a comment to the user telling us that we're supposed to do that?  Really seems a strange way to communicate if that's the case.  If not, it sure doesn't make the change on it's own.  Am I wrong? Thanks. ... View more

I don't know where to ask this Q.  When importing, it balks at forward slashes in file name.  In the import error window it shows that the / was replaced with a colon (:) but it still won't import.  It ONLY works if I go to the orig file and change the name.  BUT, BIG PROBLEM:  All my photos are used in Indesign and when a finished project is packaged, all files are linked.  If I change the file name, all links will be broken.  I'm talking about several 1000s of photos. How do I import files without changing the name and wrecking my InDesign work? Thanks, Norm ... View more