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Rob_Cullen
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Community Expert
September 3, 2026

Try renaming those JPG files without the colons [ : ] before you attempt to import.

Lightroom-Classic includes the colon in its list of illegal characters and so may be refusing the so named JPGs.  In fact I cannot even rename a file in Windows-11 to include a colon.

 

 

Regards. My System: Windows-11, Lightroom-Classic 15.4.1, Photoshop 27.8, ACR 18.4, Lightroom 9.4, Lr-iOS 10.4.0, Bridge 16.0.3 .

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Rob_Cullen
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Rob_CullenCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
Community Expert
September 3, 2026

Try renaming those JPG files without the colons [ : ] before you attempt to import.

Lightroom-Classic includes the colon in its list of illegal characters and so may be refusing the so named JPGs.  In fact I cannot even rename a file in Windows-11 to include a colon.

 

 

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Regards. My System: Windows-11, Lightroom-Classic 15.4.1, Photoshop 27.8, ACR 18.4, Lightroom 9.4, Lr-iOS 10.4.0, Bridge 16.0.3 .
Ramzes Opall
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September 3, 2026

Yes, that's it! Problem solved, thank you Rob!

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