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carolync36524094
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February 12, 2023
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Lightroom Deleted a Photo and Replaced it With Another One but Kept the Original File Name!

  • February 12, 2023
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Hi,

 

Yesterday, I went into a Lightroom Smart Collection I created to find a file.  When I clicked on it, all of a sudden, the psd file from 2022 got replaced with a jpg file from 2017 eventhough it retained the original file name.  I tried to overwrite the meta data thinking that it might solve the problem but it said that it could not write metadata due to an unknown file I/O error.  Thankfully, I had a backup of this file so I just tried to replace the file in Finder and it wouldn't save.  So then I tried to delete the messed up file but it said that the operation can't be completed because one or more required items can't be found (error code - 43).  This has never happened to me and now I'm unsure if this will happen to more files and am concerned about backing up the catalogue.  

 

The other odd thing that has happened recently is that when I take a file from Lightroom to Photoshop, it sometimes loads it upside down.  It's not that big a deal but I've never seen that happen before either.  I am not sure that it's related but I mention it in case it's meaningful.

 

I have a new 14" M1 Max Macbook Pro and am on Monterey.  My 8 year old Macbook Pro (can't remember if I was on High Sierra or Mojave at the end) never had any issues but it's battery started expanding so I had to get a new Mac.  This Mac is faster but seems to have very odd issues that arise.   

 

If anyone knows what's happening, I'd appreciate any help as to how I can fix this, make sure it's not doing anything else odd to my images and ensure it doesn't happen again.

 

Many thanks!

Carolyn

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Jim Wilde
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Jim WildeCommunity Expert
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February 12, 2023

I'm having a hard time trying to envisage what you are reporting. Would it be possible to provide some screenshots which clearly show the problem?

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carolync36524094Author
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February 12, 2023

Thanks for the response Jim.  I noticed that 4 files actually got corrupted all in the October 27 - 29 timeframe and when I googled error code 43, it made me think that it might be a hard drive issue.  The new Macs really don't seem to like anything that's been formatted to be Windows compatible.  When I ran the hard drive through error fixing, it "repaired" 1 file and then deleted the other 3.  Thankfully I have backups for the deleted files.  I just ordered a new drive that I will only format for a Mac and I hope this issue doesn't happen again.  I'll call Adobe on Monday too to see if they've come across this before.  I'm hoping it was just a hardware issue vs a software one.

 

Carolyn

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carolync36524094Author
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February 12, 2023

Hi again,

 

I just wanted to provide a quick update that I found a second file that it did this too as well.  It seems to be only affecting PSDs and PSBs but not NEFs.  I can't figure out any rhyme or reason for the switch.  The first file name was _DSC8984-Edit.psd dated October 22, 2022 and it swapped it for a file called 5D3_6306.jpg dated May 20, 2017.  The second file was _DSC0594-Pano-Edit.psb dated October 29,2022 and it swapped it for a file called 5D3_6283.jpg dated December 30, 2018.  In both cases eventhough the original file name stayed, the photo is the wrong swapped photo.  These swapped photos are also in a Smart Collection.  So far, I can't see anything else that's been swapped but I only did a cursory scan.

 

This is very concerning!  Any help anyone can provide to ensure this stops happening would be greatly appreciated.

 

Thanks,

Carolyn

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