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nealedel
nealedel
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November 18, 2020
Question

Duplicate File Names Demons

  • November 18, 2020
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LR says I am missing many files, but what I have discovered is mutiple photos share the same file name beacuse I did not change the file names from my camera and it rolled over the number sequence.

 

How do I bifurcate the same file name for mutiple photos without creating endless work? Is there a quick fix? Thank you. 

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    John Paul3395168541pc
    New Participant
    November 30, 2023

    I am having the same issue. I never renamed the files.

    And the files were never in the same folder.

    What a disaster !!!

    Does anyone (THIS MEANS YOU ADOBE !) have a solution?

      Rikk Flohr_Photography
      Community Manager
      Rikk Flohr_PhotographyCommunity Manager
      Community Manager
      November 30, 2023

      You’ve posted to an ancient thread. It is highly unlikely that the issue described in this thread, though not impossible, is the same one you are currently experiencing. Rather than resurrect an old thread that is seemingly similar, you are better off posting to a new thread with fresh, complete information, including system information, a complete description of the problem, and step-by-step instructions for reproduction. 

       

      If the issue is the same, we will merge you back into the appropriate location. 

       

      Thank you!

       

      Rikk Flohr: Adobe Photography Org
        Just Shoot Me
        Just Shoot Me
        Brainiac
        November 19, 2020

        How often does your camera rollover on the file Naming? Usually that only happens every one hundred thousand images taken. At the least every ten thousand images.

         

        Are you storing all your images In the Same Folder, In One Folder, No subfolders?

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        Lumigraphics
        Brainiac
        December 30, 2020

        That was my guess. Split them up into subfolders.

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        dj_paige
        Brainiac
        November 18, 2020

        “LR says I am missing many files, but what I have discovered is mutiple photos share the same file name beacuse I did not change the file names from my camera and it rolled over the number sequence.”

         

        I don't know about this. Lightroom Classic considers a file to be a duplicate if it has the same filename, capture time and file size. If the camera file numbers rolled over from 9999 to 0000, that would not cause the problem. I have imported three different files in my Lightroom Catalog with the file name DSC-8536.NEF.

         

        So I think you have mis-diagnosed the problem and something else is going on. Could you describe the problem in more detail? Show us screen captures?

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          edk36193567
          Participating Frequently
          December 30, 2020

          I have a problem that is similar, but not exactly the same....

          I guess at some point my camera (likely due to a change in the memory card?) re-used a whole tonne of filenames.... some of these were from different years....

          Importing was no problem for what ever reason (likely because they were different years or sizes) BUT they are the exact same filename....

          Now my collections as well as the develop settings are totally messed up....

          I went through years worth of shots and re-named to make them unique, but the collections will not re-set to point to the proper photo... 

          Here's an example of one such photo in the collection with the incorrect photo and develop settings applied to the photo (they are the develop settings for the proper photo that is supposed to be in the collection).

          You can see that this photo is (re)named for a date of 2017-08-30 with the preserved filename in the file info....

          It's associated with a collection from 2018-01-07.....

          When I go back to check the file from that date, I get this:

          These files were never in the same folder as I import by date, so the top one would have imported to 2017/2017-08-30 and the second would have been imported into 2018/2018-01-07.

          The only thing that may have happened is that the older photo may have been moved to a removable drive....

          Looking at the preserved filename, they are exactly the same name... It's the only thing they have in common (other than they were taken with  the same camera).

          I have hundreds (maybe more...) photos that are now like this... the collection and develop settings are pointed at a photo that shares (or rather shared) a filename with a different photo, but the photo that comes up in the collection is not what was originally added to that collection....

          If anyone knows a way to right this, I'd be happy, but I think that the catalogue has simply written the wrong info and now there is likely no way to fix that other than going through each photo again....

          I'd be happy if anyone could help though.

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            edk36193567
            Participating Frequently
            December 31, 2020

            So, I've also managed to capture the situation with the preview.... Here you can see where the develop settings are coming from, because internally somewhere, it's still pointing to the file with the duplicate name.... Then after a few seconds, it swiches the preview to the proper one. However, the develop settings remain for the incorrect file (in this case, the develop settings are for the airplane, not the dog, even though the dog is the actual correct photo).

             

            Stephen Marsh
            Stephen Marsh
            Community Expert
            November 18, 2020

            I don't use Lr very often, one has to be careful with renaming outside of the app as it uses a catalog/database. It does have good renaming features. Otherwise, if you had no concerns about breaking the Lr catalog, I'd use Bridge to batch rename.

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