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DavePinMinn
Inspiring
September 4, 2023
Question

Folder synchronize stuck with enhanced image?

  • September 4, 2023
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Windows 11 Pro, Lightroom 12.5

This has been happening for a while, but I have to do it rarely so it's not usually a problem...

Take a RAW image (in my case a Sony ARW) and do Enhance to upscale it 2X.  I now have a new, enhanced DNG file, but there's ALSO another DNG sitting in the folder from the Enhance.

Do Synchronize folder and Lightroom just sits.  I get a partial progress circle, and sometimes and hourglass, but it never appears to finish - with any other file in the folder there would be immediate thumbnails flashing on and off and the sync would finish in a couple seconds.

Eventually, I hit Cancel several times and shut down Lightroom. 

I found the old topic from 2020 with the same complaint, and the only thing that came out of there was to reset the preferences which causes WAY too much having to redo things.  Does anyone have an idea OTHER than nuking the preferences?

Currently, I've been Importing the folder since THAT works, but the Synchronize doesn't appear to like enhanced images.

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johnrellis
johnrellis
Legend
September 4, 2023

I'm not able to reproduce that issue. I moved a .arw into a folder by itself, then ran Enhance > Super Resolution twice, producing file-Enhanced-SR.dng and file-Enhanced-SR-2.dng in the same folder. I removed file-Enhanced-SR-2.dng from the catalog, then Synchronize Folder, which completed immediately.

 

Perhaps zip up the folder with the three files in it, upload it to Dropbox, Google Drive, or similar, and post the sharing link here.  We can see if the issue can be replicated in other LR configurations (a first step to finding a fix, a workaround, and/or a bug report).

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DavePinMinnAuthor
Inspiring
September 5, 2023

I was on 12.4, not 12.5.  What I believe I was seeing:

Take .ARW and run enhance.  ARW file is still there.  A .dng with the enhancement showed in the catalog and in the folder.  There was another file (a dng I believe) that was in the folder, but NOT in the catalog.  I believe it was a dng with the original imensions.

But, in the meantime, I updated the Adobe software, so I AM now on 12.5, and when I run the Enhance I'm NOT getting an extra file in the folder but not in the catalog.  I get 1 file that's in the catalog.  So, synchronize on a folder is back to running in a couple seconds.

I'm not sure if I'm completely WRONG about what I think I was seeing (though the synchronize definitely didn't work), or if I WAS seeing it and it's changed in 12.5.

Either way, thanks for your time, and if I can ever get one of the computers to do it again, I'll grab all the files and send them.

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