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P: 5.4 is exporting out of the expected order when using the context menu (Right Click)

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February 6, 2020
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hello,

for some reason, lightroom is not exporting in the order shown in the catalogue.

can anyone help please?

thanks 🙂

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Rikk Flohr_Photography

Community Manager

Thank you for the additional steps to repeat the bug. We've got it logged for the team to fix.

Workaround: Note the failure only occurs when using the Context Menu (Right-Click). Correct exporting is observed when using the KBSC or the Share Icon.

Rikk Flohr: Adobe Photography Org

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ScoutMasterB

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POSSIBLE SOLUTION

(using Lightroom 5.4 on macOS 12.4)

Hello everyone, I was encountering this problem when trying to export as well. However I only experienced it when doing a right click on a selection of photos and selecting "Export" from the right click menu. I discovered that if I instead would export via the "Share" button up top or by simply using the "Shift+E" shortcut on my keyboard the photos would then export in the correct/intended order"

See attached images for an illustration.

If your photos are still exporting in the wrong order using the share button or keyboard shortcut I don't know what to tell you. As I said I was only encountering this error when exporting via a right click on a selection of photos.

KitsterM

Participant

LIFESAVER! Thank you

KitsterM

Participant

I'm having the same issue. I've tried ordering by capture date, custom order, and by name. Each time in the export process, the entire album is significantly reordered and upon actual export- remains so. Only started having this issue after the most recent update.

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Jao vdL

Community Expert

This might be caused by a recent (year ago or so) change in the way export works. It is now multithreaded (meaning it exporrts multiple images at once) and this can result in exports happening out-of-order especially if the images have strongly varying filesizes. However when I test it, I can see that the exports happen out of order (i.e. test-05.jpg happens before test-03.jpg) but the file numbering is exactly as they are shown in Lightroom. Here is an example. I messed up the order in the album on purpose and exported. I can see the files come out in random order (so sorting for creation date in finder/explorer would show random order) but the ordinal numbers in the filename or exactly like shown in the album.

Jim Wilde

Community Expert

That's exactly what I did in my test, Jao....with the same result.

colinm75667114

Participant

I am trying to export all my edits from a recent session just like I always do, and suddenly Lightroom is exporting them all out of order. I want them exporting in the order they appear in Lightroom filmstrip, like they previously always have. I cannot figure out if I somehow toggled or untoggled a setting or what. I can’t find help for this issue online. Thanks for any help!

Jim Wilde

Community Expert

Could you provide some details please.

What app are you using on your Windows system, Lightroom or Lightroom Classic?

Are you exporting using a custom name with sequence number for the exported files, or retaining the original filenames? What order are you viewing the originals in the Lightroom/Lightroom Classic grid? What app are you using to view the exported images, if you are using File Explorer what list order have you selected?

A couple of screenshots showing the problem would be helpful.

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incognitoladyAuthor

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thanks jim 🙂

windows 11, and lightroom

i am using a custom name, and i rearranged the files for this lot, but on friday i left them in order of capture date, and it still messed up the export order.

here's a screenshot of the first 8 photos in lightroom grid and first 8 photos exported. as you can see it's not even a close miss.

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Rahul RM

Participating Frequently

In Macbook After editing the pics, when export is selected the pictures export order is completely messed up.

The export sequence is not in the order in which the pics were added.

Jim Wilde

Community Expert

Could you provide some details please.

Are you exporting using a custom name with sequence number for the exported files, or retaining the original filenames? What order are you viewing the originals in the Lightroom grid? What app are you using to view the exported images, if you are using Finder what list order have you selected?

A couple of screenshots showing the problem would be helpful.

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Rahul RM

Participating Frequently

Hi Jim,

Here is the detailed explaination of the issue.

Lets assume I have added 5 pictures to the lightroom with file names sony_1.ARW, sony_2.ARW, sony_3.ARW, sony_4.ARW, sony_5.ARW .

Now after editing them, I have selected all the pics and exported. During export process I have given a custom name "GZ_" starting with 1. Usually with version 5.3 the pics used to get exported sequentially, according to the order added to the film strip. In this example sony_1.ARW file name changes to GZ_1.jpg , sony_2.ARW file name changes to GZ_2.jpg , sony_3.ARW file name changes to GZ_3.jpg, sony_4.ARW file name changes to GZ_4.jpg and sony_5.ARW file name changes to GZ_5.jpg.

But with version 5.4 the order is messed up, like sony_1.ARW file name changes to GZ_3.jpg , sony_2.ARW file name changes to GZ_5.jpg and so on. The file names are exporting in random order.

Hope this explaination helps. 🙂

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scottyoda

Participant

I am a wedding photographer and use two different cameras. I know I can easily sort by capture date within Lightroom. I know that I can also change the naming sequence on export, so theoretically, I should be able to export based on the capture date. For example, if I have 500 pics that I have in an album and sort by capture date and then I'm exporting and I change the naming sequence to "a-001", it should be filed as follows:

a-001 - the very first pic I took

a-500 - the very last pic I took

However, Lightroom is exporting them all in a completely random order. So a-001 will be a pic from the reception or something and a-500 will be a pic from the bride getting ready.

It makes no sense. I have tried a thousand different things. Tried seeing if it was just one particular album. Tried searching everywhere for a solution, but everyone just says you should be able to export and get the order you desire by changing the sort order and then the export naming sequence. It doesn't work and it's driving me crazy! It's not even sorting by name! It's just completely random!! Please help!!!

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scottyoda

Participant

I've just figured out what the issue seems to be. After posting this, the "suggested articles" took me to a similar issue posted a couple months ago. One of the support team said that it seems to be a bug when right clicking and selecting export instead of going to file>export. When I do the second, the order is correct!!

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bradydan

Participant

Over two years later, this bug still exists. I've just lost an hour of my life to this. I even downloaded Adobe Bridge (not used it in years) to batch rename 405 exported JPEGS, but guess what – Bridge is also buggy and batch rename doesn't work. Even quitting Bridge on the mac doesn't work.

I'm not impressed with Adobe. Far smaller companies manage to offer much less buggy software, for less money.

Adobe – fix your software and use automated testing as part of your deployment processes. These problems should never reach customers. And when problems are found, they should be fixed quickly, not ignored.

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