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anastasiaa67607051
Inspiring
December 24, 2024
Question

LRC not syncing or updating with a .psd

  • December 24, 2024
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Hello! I use LRC for photo organization and will often do "Edit in Photoshop" function to make sure the file remains in my library in LR. Sometimes the link between photoshop and LR gets broken and I have not found a way to import it. I've tried synchronize folder as well as trying to import it. When I try to import it, it will move the file and/or change its name (for example, adding a -2 after it) but it will not show up in my LR library! Any advice? PLEASE! Tried of similar issues where LR won't be able to add new images and/or synchornize folders (I've noticed mostly for .psds). I'm operating on LRC 14.1.1 and MacOS 15.1.1. 

 

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Ian Lyons
Community Expert
Community Expert
December 24, 2024

The file being renamed to append -2 suggests that the PSD has already been imported/synced. Besk that you check that the PSD files created when you saved them in Photoshop are not being stacked with original raw file.

Community Expert
December 24, 2024

the "-2" simply means that a prior file of that name already existed in that folder (physically on disk, and regardless of any importation to Catalog or not) before a second file was created.

JohanElzenga
Community Expert
Community Expert
December 24, 2024

How large are these psd files? Lightroom has a maximum it size it can handle, though I don't know by heart how large that is.

 

-- Johan W. Elzenga
Community Expert
December 24, 2024

Further reasons why a file saved by a PS external edit may not then re-import to the Catalog include:

 

  • For PSD, the option "Include Compatibility Preview" has been disabled perhaps to economise file size
    (though a TIFF will include this preview regardless, AFAIK)
  • The image has been converted into a non-supported colour mode, for example 'Duotone'.
anastasiaa67607051
Inspiring
December 25, 2024

Sorry I cant find how to toggle include compatibility preview on - could u point me in the right direction?