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napowell
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December 18, 2024
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Stacking After Denoise or Photo Merge Not Working

  • December 18, 2024
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I am running Lightroom Classic 14.1.1 on a mac mini under Sequoia 15.2. Over the last few weeks, whenever I do either a Denose or a Photo Merge, I get the message: "Could not create stack. Stacks cannot contain photos that are stored in different folders. " Well, they are in the same folder. If you simply uncatalog and recatalog the dng that was created, it will allow stacking. If you choose to fully delete the created dng file , you have to do it twice. I have been dealing with this for a while and hoped it would have been corrected by now. Considering that I can't find any information supporting this error, I thought I would ask to see if anybody else is having this problem.

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Correct answer napowell
OK, thanks.

Regards,
Norm

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I have 14 catalogs, but this is only a problem in the seven oldest ones. I will continue to uncatalog and re-catalog when necessary.

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JohanElzenga
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JohanElzengaCommunity Expert
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December 18, 2024

Sounds like you are plagued by the capitalization problem. Basically, what happens is that you have two different folders, one called ‘XXXX’ (or a combination of upper- and lower cast) and the other one called ‘xxxx’. In other words, the names are the same, except for the capitalisation of at least one letter. Because MacOS and Windows are case-insensitive, your OS sees those two folders as one and the same folder and so it deals with this without you even being aware of it. You will only see one single folder in the Mac Finder or Windows Explorer!!! But Lightroom is case-sensitive, so Lightroom does see two different folders. Here's how to fix the problem. https://www.lightroomqueen.com/capitalization-catalog-error/

 

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    napowellAuthor
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    December 18, 2024
    No. A simple uncatalog and recatalog will fix the problem, that's all. This is just an additional step that I have never had to take in the 15 years I have been using Lightroom and I do not want to have to do that.


    Regards,
    Norm

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    JohanElzenga
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    JohanElzengaCommunity Expert
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    December 19, 2024

    The fact that uncatalog and recatalog will solve this, does not prove it's not the capitalization problem, more likely the opposite. I have decided a long time ago that I won’t argue over the capitalisation problem any more, however. I know it is a difficult to understand problem, so I get it that people are skeptic when I tell them that I suspect they have this problem. But I’m tired of having to discuss this at length with skeptics (I have wasted many hours on that by now), even in cases where I am 100% certain that this is what they experience. I’m not saying this is one of those 100% certainty situations, I’m just saying I will not discuss it any further.

    -- Johan W. Elzenga
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