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Richard Duncombe
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June 7, 2017
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Files vanish after import with dupe file names

  • June 7, 2017
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Hi

I have just returned from Japan where I used two cameras. 5D and 5D3

With this I used 1 new memory card with the 5D3 and have no problem, all the images have come through just fine with the 5D3

With the 5D, all of the photos imported, and I was able to create some JPEGs from the files when they appeared under the 'last import' tool.

Since uploading some more photos, and moving some old photos to my external drive, all of the 5D imports have vanished. I managed to find the JPEGS in my cloud, but all of the raw folders are gone.

I have searched for them by name on both my laptop hard drive and the external. The camera has older 'MG' file types. It looks as though (from the JPEGS) that the camera has recreated file numbers used previously and I can now only locate the previous photo both in LR and on my external drive.

Some of my best work to date was on that one upload of 294 photos, all of which now don't seem to exist.

Can anyone help me find them? I never removed them or deleted them from the library, they just seemed to vanish as soon as I connected the external drive. Is there any way I can go back through imports to find them?

Please could someone help!?

Ric

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dj_paige
dj_paige
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June 7, 2017

Since uploading some more photos, and moving some old photos to my external drive, all of the 5D imports have vanished. I managed to find the JPEGS in my cloud, but all of the raw folders are gone.

I have searched for them by name on both my laptop hard drive and the external. The camera has older 'MG' file types. It looks as though (from the JPEGS) that the camera has recreated file numbers used previously and I can now only locate the previous photo both in LR and on my external drive.

Are you talking about these imports are missing in Lightroom, or are they missing in your operating system, or are they missing in both?

When you did the search, was it you looking in a bunch of folders, or did you use the operating system's search feature to do the search; did you use the Filter Bar in Lightroom to do the search or did you just look in a bunch of folders?

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Richard DuncombeAuthor
Participant
June 7, 2017

Hi DJ, thanks for the early response

No files can be found on my OS or in lightroom. I've simply been using the Mac search tool to look for both the file number, all CR2 files, and dates of images.

In Lightroom, i don't know how to run a specific search, so i've been scrolling through 'all photos' and trying to fond the file number. Here there are large gaps, however when I look on my external drive, the correct file number appears to be there, however it is the old photo and not the 'new' image with the dupe name.

dj_paige
dj_paige
Legend
June 7, 2017

So the two cameras were taking photos that had the same file name (at least for some of the photos)?

Did you import the photos from both cameras into the same folder(s)? (Even if you did, I thought Lightroom was smart enough to keep things straight, but I don't really know that I have ever heard anyone say they actually did that) Or did you import them into different folders?

Can you explain the EXACT (very very detailed) sequence of steps and settings you have selected in the Import dialog box to do these imports?

I assume you either have backups of these photos, or the originals still on the camera card. Is that correct?

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