import higher res scans to replace existing edited scans

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Hi,10 years ago when HDs were fairly expensive and I was poor.  I scanned all my film at a medium resolution and imported 35,000+ images into LRC and processed those images. Since then I have rescanned all 35K+ of my images at Hi-Res.  Now my challenge is to get them into LR in place of the medium-res images, so that the editing that was done to the medium-res images is now applied to the High-res files. I thought if I named the Hi-Res files the same name as the Mid-Res files and copied them into the folder replacing the lower res files and when LRC was started that it would pickup the size difference in the files, but it does not appear to do this.   Does anyone have any guidance? LRC 14.2Win 11 Pro 64

Conrad_C · Answer

That way should work, replacing the files with new ones of the exact same file name.

If the file details in the Library module are not representing the specs of the newer files, try this: Select a file, and choose the command Metadata > Read Metadata From File. That’s supposed to force Lightroom Classic to re-read the file metadata. Then, in the Metadata panel, look at the file details again.

Did that command update the file details? If so, then you can select hundreds of images at once and choose the same command, and update their file details all at once.

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