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After a Windoze update today, I can no longer import photos via LRC 10.3.
When I select 'Import Photos and Video', I see the card, and all of the raw files, but as soon as I click 'Import', LRC switches to the normal import screen, with the 'Copy and import photos' progress bar, and 'Importing files...' in the center of the screen, but nothing happens. No progress bar changes, no thumbnails, no disk activity.
Also, there is no cancel button in the bottom right of the screen.
I can click the 'x' in the progress bar, which turns the 'x' red, then closes the progress bar, but 'File'->'Import Photos and Video' remains greyed out. The only way to bring it back is to close and restart LRC.
I tried resetting LRC preferences, but no dice.
I was able to manually create a '06-10' folder on the drive and copy my raw files into it, then use import set to 'Add', but the library navigator does not show that folder in the correct context i.e. the folder is in the root of the drive, not in '2021/'
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Some things to check;
"When I select 'Import Photos and Video', I see the card, and all of the raw files,"
"... as soon as I click 'Import', LRC switches to the normal import screen, with the 'Copy and import photos' progress bar, and 'Importing files...' in the center of the screen, but nothing happens. No progress bar changes, no thumbnails, no disk activity."
"I can click the 'x' in the progress bar, which turns the 'x' red, then closes the progress bar, but 'File'->'Import Photos and Video' remains greyed out. The only way to bring it back is to close and restart LRC."
Do you only have problems with IMPORT? Are the other modules working ok?
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Thank you for your reply. I've been using LR since v 1.0, so I knew it wasn't anything simple. As I stated, none of the 'copy' options functioned at all and the 'add' function worked, but the manually created directory did not fall in the correct context within the LRC library module. It appeared under the root of the drive, not in the '2021/mm-dd' as it should even though it is in the correct context when viewed in file explorer. No extraneous popups, all other modules appeared to work just fine.
Anyway, the issue seems to have been resolved (with the exception of the erroneous dir structure above). I'm blaming Windoze. After posting, I even tried rolling back the Win updates to no avail. Of course, the ever persistent Windoze reinstalled them overnight, and now the import function is working as normal. Gremlins! Thanks again for your suggestions.
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Well, I spoke too soon. It appears to be the catalog. When I thought the issue was resolved, I was importing to a different catalog. When I tried to import into my primary catalog, nothing. Unfortunately the apparently corrupted catalog was backed up to my off-site backup, and that restored catalog will not copy files when I try to import.
Created a new catalog, and import is fine, and I can import the previous catalog directories using 'add'. I think all is well, but these things are unsettling to say the least.