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October 21, 2020
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Failure to build Smart Preview only on import

  • October 21, 2020
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I've always set my images to build smart previews on import. Never had an issue until today, on a couple of different imports I get the error that it failed to build smart previews for all the images I just imported. But if I build smart previews after the import, they all build just fine. Any suggestions on what might be suddenly causing this?

Lightroom 10, Mac OS 10.15.7

 

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    GoldingD
    GoldingD
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    October 22, 2020

    see: https://www.lightroomqueen.com/community/threads/smart-previews-fail-to-build.30218/

     

    specically that via Victoria Bampton

     

      WhiteSpiderDesign
      WhiteSpiderDesignAuthor
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      October 22, 2020

      @GoldingD yeah I saw that article before I posted. Really don't want to delete the file and rebuild all my smart previews, I have well over 60,000 images in my catalog. Was hoping for another fix, but if that's the only way, then I guess I'll need to go that route and let it run over night. 

      ralphsomma
      ralphsomma
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      October 24, 2020

      I'm having the same problem. I tried deleting the smart previews folder and recreating previews. Also added all permissions 8in Windows. Neither solved the problem.

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