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August 21, 2011
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P: don't re-import deleted photos with "New photos"

  • August 21, 2011
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Hi,

The incremental import using "New photos" is a great concept, however I find that it doesn't work as well as it could for me. After an import my first work is to delete the photos that really are not worth keeping. However, on the next import from the same memory card the "New photos" feature happily selects the delete photos again for import.

My workaround is to flag my bad photos as Rejected but keep them on disk (and in the catalog). However, I really do not want to keep these photos. I don't want them to take up disk space. They even get backed up. Alternatively, I have to selectively deselect the deleted photos from the import list every time I import incrementally from the same memory card.

I realize that there should be a way to re-import deleted photos, in case you deleted one by accident. One can always show "All photos" and recover a deleted photo from there. The "New photos" feature should only import new photos, not old ones.

Lightroom could easily keep track of the fact that I deleted a photo (maybe it already does), and assume, if I'm using the "New photos" import feature, that I don't want to re-import photos that I once imported and subsequently deleted.

Frank

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    ssprengel
    ssprengel
    Inspiring
    August 22, 2011
    Adobe is unlikely to change how LR works just so someone can use their memory card as tertiary (3rd level) backup, despite how much sense it makes to you to do this.
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    FeedbackCommunityMemberAuthor
    Inspiring
    August 22, 2011
    Because I'd like to keep a copy of the images as long as possible (next to the copy on my hard disk after importing and the backup on another disk). When a card is full I put it away and I take one of my other cards, more or less the least recently used, and format it (by that time I should have a copy of the to-be-erased images on two disks).

    This way I can keep an extra copy of my images on my cards as long as possible.
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    FeedbackCommunityMemberAuthor
    Inspiring
    August 22, 2011
    Ok, I'm curious - after copying the images to your hard disk, why are you not deleting all of them from the card?
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    FeedbackCommunityMemberAuthor
    Inspiring
    August 22, 2011
    Steve,

    Maybe I have a non-typical workflow but I import my photos first, put the memory card back in my camera so that it's ready for a next occasion, and either immediately or later go through the photos and delete the ones that are not worth keeping. It would really be unproductive if I had to go back and track down the corresponding files on the memory card to delete them.

    Frank
    ssprengel
    ssprengel
    Inspiring
    August 21, 2011
    You should be deleting the photos off the memory card so they are not there, again, to import.
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