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Cletus
Known Participant
February 15, 2024
Question

P: Allows Local images on a removable (CF Express) drive to be edited.

  • February 15, 2024
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If you insert a camera card and attempt to edit images while still on the card.  Lightroom will permit this and writes XMP data back to the source volume.  Since Camera cards are often erased and reused, the image files and the edits are lost.

Lightroom needs to prohibit users from edits in the Local mode until the images have been copied to a permanent storage location.  The minimum solution should be a severe warning when ever the user attempts to access images on a camera card (SD, CF Express, XQD etc.)

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Rikk Flohr_Photography
Community Manager
February 20, 2024

We've opened a ticket to investigate possibilities. Handling of CF-Express by the operating systems makes this problematic. 

Rikk Flohr: Adobe Photography Org
Rikk Flohr_Photography
Community Manager
February 15, 2024

@Cletus  Do you find this behavior limited to CF Express?
Additionally, do you see it Mac and Windows?

 

Rikk Flohr: Adobe Photography Org
Jim Wilde
Community Expert
Community Expert
February 15, 2024

Rikk, on my Mac system I only see this behaviour when using CfExpress cards, which would seem to be the same problem with that card type that has existed in LrC ever since they started to appear. So perhaps this latest iteration with LrD is not entirely unexpected?

Rikk Flohr_Photography
Community Manager
February 15, 2024

Jim, I am only seeing edits/xmp saving possible on CF-Express and only on Mac. 

Rikk Flohr: Adobe Photography Org