Not using built-in LR commanda, but you can use my ListView plugin or LrTransporter:     ... View more

What type of files are on the card and from what camera? Could they be a compressed format that Mac doesn't recognise?   Does the camera have more than one card, and you're importing from the wrong card?   Alternatively, can you connect the camera via USB cable?   I have no problems importing on that Mac by either method. ... View more

I think it helps a lot of people, so I normally add a couple of other guiding ideas: "Folders are meant for storage, and they're inflexible as a way of categorising pictures." Use keywords and other metadata fields for categorising and describing your photos Use collections for collecting and gathering photos as and when you need them ... View more

I always encourage people to use Job because LR makes this field so easy to filter or use in smart collections.   Yes, adding a job can duplicate some information, but that applies to a lot of the metadata we commonly put in LR fields. Keywords or titles can often duplicate the info in the folder name or file names, but each one allows us different ways to search in LR and more flexibility over search criteria.   Imagine a job photographing an event over a few days, maybe over a period, so for instance a wedding job from the "2024-01-24 Jones Watson engagement party" folder and other folders up to the day itself. Making the Job "Joe Jones and Lucy Watson wedding" means you can name individual folders as you want - with shorter and more readable names, for instance, or more accurately describing a day "2024-09-24 Joe Jones Riga stag trip". You also got just a few shots of the city which weren't really wedding/client-related, so maybe leave the job empty for them? That's quicker than creating a new folder for those few images, if that's what you might do, and maybe next week you'll change your mind and one or two of those photos helps tell that day's story. Folders are meant for storage, and they're inflexible as a way of categorising pictures.   Later you want to gather all the job's photos, and a smart collection gathers that job's photos with Job / Contains All Joe Jones and Lucy Watson wedding. Now, each time you want that job's photos, you don't have to type Jones Watson into the Folders panel's filter box, and then filter out the non-wedding photos. When you want to create a portfolio of your best wedding photos, you might filter on 5 stars and the wedding keyword, and then another Library Filter column is the Job so you can see you're not including too many from one event or wonder why a job is missing (because back then you used 4 stars for the best?).   It all goes back to giving yourself different ways to search and more flexibility over search criteria, and it's easy to overlook how Job is one of the few fields that LR makes fully searchable. ... View more

Do you not use the Job Identifier field? It's one of the few fields that Lightroom makes directly searchable through Smart Collections or the Library Filter, and so it can provide a structure which groups multiple folders or cope when folder names are inconsistent to gather everything related to a job/event. ... View more

The AI is contained in the .lrcat-data file. Are you only sending back the .lrcat ?   But you can select all the possible images in the grid and run Photo > Develop Settings > Update AI Settings. ... View more

No, there's nothing like that. It's a very basic filtering. ... View more

Metadata > Color Label Set. This translates the text that is in Label into one of the 5 colours.   Note that you can type whatever you want into the Label field - literally anything. A colour only appears if that text corresponds to the current Color Label Set.   So don't program for the Blau, Blue or whatever. Program for the text that is entered in that field.   ... View more

If you send a TIF/PSD to PS for the second or later time, you get a message asking if you want to edit the original or create another copy of the file. You would choose the former option. ... View more

I should have added "choose Edit in PS and then its Edit Original" option. ... View more

Lightroom is explicitly a non-destructive editor. So it keeps its adjustments in its catalogue and doesn't change the original files. If you want to print or send someone a JPEG, that is when it applies adjustments, and they are applied to the print or the JPEG, which you can delete afterwards as it can be recreated at any time. ... View more

I agree that Jim's answer makes a lot of sense. It's essentially the same as selondon's above, but I think the extra detail is very helpful.     ... View more

Here I followed my workflow, adding lo res to the exported files, brought them into LR and just selected them in Previous Import. You can see they're 400 px - the unselected previous export were full res.   ... View more

How do you know they don't change the file size? In other words, what screen/app are you looking at that tells you the file size hasn't changed?   Also could it be that you might be comparing the wrong copies of the hi res JPEGs?   You could try my modified version of the FB workflow. ... View more

What I'm thinking is that you'd need to import using the Add option, so you get your 150 folders in LR and not reorganised by the Import dialog's Copy option. Maybe make a copy of them first. Then the rest of the FB idea seems to match what you want. I think. ... View more

What exactly isn't working in the original FB suggestion? Any error messages? How are you sure it isn't working?   While it might not be the standard LR workflow to overwrite originals, the FB workflow doesn't look too wacky if you want to replace hi res with lo res files. ... View more

I guess I use them "excessively", or at least I have many of them - and not on the latest hardware. So no, slowdown isn't an issue.   I'd suggest only setting up smart collections that you do actually need, not putting your time and energy into creating ones speculatively in expectation that they might be needed someday. Remember too that you have the Library Filter and can save your own column presets there.   Also, smart collections are only as good as the underlying metadata, so put more effort into adding metadata rather than building neat smart collection hierarchies. It often helps to think in these terms: Folders are only about physical safekeeping - storage, guaranteed backup, easy to restore Cataegorisation and analysis is a job for keywords and other metadata Use collections to collect or gather images for whatever you need at the time ... View more

Lightroom does not have that ability, and has no plugin capability. Lightroom Classic does, and without any need for a plugin, but it does support plugins.   Which Lightroom do you mean? ... View more

Start a new thread with your issue.   Add information about why you created a new catalogue, and have you imported images into it? If it was really necessary to create a new catalogue, have you not used File > Import from Another Catalog to add images and bring in the edits? But start your own thread. ... View more

You've not missed anything, but be careful before trying to work with more than one catalogue - you can easily waste time and cause confusion. Here for example I'd ask why not just create a portfolio collection?   If you do want a portfolio catalogue, you can use the good old File > Export as Catalog. So select the images, choose File > Export as Catalog, tell it to use only the selection, do not include negatives (ie originals), and go ahead. This creates a new catalogue with all the collections and keywords and other metadata associated with those photos. No new folders are created - the catalogue is pointing to the same pictures as the other catalogue. Now those photos are being managed by two catalogues, a recipe for confusion? ... View more

See this post and review the rest of the thread. Does it seem the same set of problems? ... View more

What happens if you copy them to your Mac's hard drive , and  then import them?   Also what if you select the images with missing EXIF data into a Metadata> Read from file?   I'm wondering if the files may be corrupted, for example. Are they all raw files? Compressed or some other option? ... View more