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OTAVIOpacheco
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May 7, 2025
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Re-import fotos to Lightroom

  • May 7, 2025
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The lightroom workflow when you want to edit a photo you have already imported before is absolutely ridiculous, I click on the image and what I expect the software to do is to open it, or to re-direct me to the version I have already imported before - BUT I DON'T EXPECTED IT TO SAY IT WAS ALREADY IMPORTED WITHOUT GIVING ME ANY OPTION TO RE-EDIT THE IMAGE!!!!! This is absurd! . WHY DO I HAVE TO SEARCH IT AGAIN ALL THE TIME??? Can you get better on this, please? It's so simple and intuitive. Get better.

Correct answer JohanElzenga

Got it. But in this case in which I am not the only person using this
archive and computer, I should navigate the Hard Drive folders from inside
the Lightroom? Is it possible?

Thank you


Otavio Pacheco
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Yes, navigate using Lightroom, not the Finder.

 

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JohanElzenga
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JohanElzengaCommunity Expert
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May 7, 2025

First of all, I wonder what version of Lightroom you are referring to. You posted this in the Lightroom Classic forum, but I get the impression that you may actually be referring to the 'local' option of Lightroom, not Lightroom Classic. And secondly I wonder if you are talking about clicking on an image in Lightroom, or double-clicking on the image in the MacOS Finder. So please be more specific and instead of ranting, explain what you are doing and in which version of Lightroom.

 

-- Johan W. Elzenga
    dj_paige
    dj_paige
    Legend
    May 7, 2025

    The Lightroom Classic workflow is not to re-import images. The workflow is to leave the images in LrC, and then when you find them in the Library module, you can select it, go to the Develop module to re-edit the image.

     

    Can you get better on this, please? It's so simple and intuitive. Get better.

     

    I seriously doubt that Adobe is going to change this. Its the way the software is designed; if you want to use LrC, you probably ought to get used to it.


    And since the software is designed to be a database, the way you propose isn't effective at all and doesn't make use of the capabilities of a database. If you don't want a database, use Bridge.

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      OTAVIOpachecoAuthor
      Participant
      May 8, 2025

      Adobe Lightroom version 8.3
      The new version. Yes, clicking on finder and trying to open the picture in
      Lightroom.
      To give a context: a work with different photographers, not very organized,
      and a huge archive. Some of the pictures are already added and some are
      not. Either way I have to export jpgs edited of the pictures, but sometimes
      I have trouble to open them, because they were previously added and when I
      click on finder I have this message, but the software don't provide a path
      to find the image on the database, that contains more than 4 thousand
      pictures. And when I do search, most of the time I can't find.


      Otavio Pacheco
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      JohanElzenga
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      JohanElzengaCommunity Expert
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      May 8, 2025

      Yes, that is how Lightroom is designed. Lightroom is designed to be used with imported pictures, and if you right-click on an image and choose 'Open in Lightroom', then that's an import command. If the image has already been imported, then you'll get that message. The 'local' mode does not (necessarily) import pictures. It is a simple browser. You can select an image and start editing it right away, without importing. But that means you should not open the image from the Finder, but from the Lightroom browser. One way to know which images are already imported when you are in the Finder is to mark them with a MacOS color label before you import them, so next time you will see that image has this label so you should not try to open it in Lightroom from the Finder again.

       

      -- Johan W. Elzenga
        GoldingD
        GoldingD
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        May 7, 2025
        I click on the image and what I expect the software to do is to open it,

        In what module are you attempting to select the image in? The Library Module, the Develop module, or as I suspect, the Import Dialog?

        Ah, Lr not LrC. So my above inquiry does not apply. And  as a non Lr user, I have no clue.

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