Is there a way to force Lightroom to process files in order?

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July 28, 2022
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I use Lightroom to convert file formats for several thousand images at a time and it processes them in random order. Because it frequently crashes I often have to re-start the process. And because they're not processed in order I have to manually search through the processed files to see which ones were not processed and manually select those again. I don't have that issue when I batch process the images in Photoshop but the Lightroom conversion is much faster when it works correctly.

Is there any way to force it to process the images in order so it's easier to restart the process when Lightroom crashes?

Thanks

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GoldingD

Legend

Please post your System Information as Lightroom Classic (LrC) reports it. In LrC click on Help, then System Info, then Copy. Paste that information into a reply. Please present all information from first line down to and including Plug-in Info. Info after Plug-in info can be cut as that is just so much dead space to us non-Techs.

dj_paige

Legend

Lightroom (Lr icon) or Lightroom Classic (LrC icon)? What version NUMBER?

What "process" are you referring to?

Jim Wilde

Community Expert

What exactly do you mean by "use Lightroom to convert file formats"? The only file conversion function in LrClassic is the "Convert to DNG" process, which typically processes one at a time in order, so restarting should be quite simple.

Or are you referring to File Export to produce derivative files in different formats? In which case, I would have thought the easiest thing to do after the crash is to redo the complete export again.....if you have the "Existing Files" checkbox set to "Ask what to do", when you restart the export you will be given a list of the files which have already been exported and thus already exist, plus various options. If you select the "Skip" option, all the previously exported files are skipped and only the not yet done files are processed.

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rgames10030622Author

Inspiring

OK- having it skip existing files might do the trick. Didn't know about that option.

Regarding which light room, it's the "classic" version.

Regarding what I'm doing, I'm converting Nikon NEF format to TIF format.

Thanks

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