Importación a una carpeta en Lightroom Classic

[Daniel Araw]

Recuperada una fotografia ARW de un disco externo, no me permite importarla a una carpeta concreta. Me aparece la fotografía en un entorno de Adobe Photoshop Lightroom, me indica que es un posible duplicado y Lightroom Classic no me permite importarla.

¿Cómo he de hacer para poder importarla?

Gracias

Daniel

[dj_paige]

What camera took this photo? What is your version NUMBER of Lightroom Classic (we need the version NUMBER and not words, like latest or current)

Is it a photo that has been previously imported into Lightroom Classic? How do you know?

Is the photo "greyed out" in the Import dialog box?

[Daniel Araw]

Camera Sony A-900

Version numbre of Ligthroom Classic 13.1

I imported the photo myself in January 2015 and it was accidentally deleted.
Today I wanted to recover it from an external file. I have copied it to a file on the PC and tried to import it to an LC folder. The photo opens in an Adobe Lightroom screen but the LC import button appears disabled.

I'm not very clear about the concept of "greyed out". If you mean the import command, as I indicated before, yes.

Thanks for your prompt response. I hope you can tell me how to solve the problem.
Daniel

[dj_paige · Accepted solution]

Importing is not the solution to accidentally deleted files in your operating system (I assume you accidentally deleted it in your operating system). Just use your operating system to copy the backup of the photo to where Lightroom Classic thinks it should be. Repeating for emphasis: DO NOT IMPORT.

[Daniel Araw]

I think I didn't explain myself correctly. The photo was deleted from the drive, which makes me assume that there should be no trace of it in the Lightroom Classic backup, and yet it tells me that it may be a copy.
Anyway, when accessing the LrC cat (two Lightroom Catalog.Ircat and Lightroom Catalog-v10.Ircat appear) with the same size (1.58 MB) and the same date (April 9, 2021). The first took place at 11:24 and the second at 11:39.
As a solution, I have chosen to change the registration number of the photo _DSC6022.ARW to another that was not in the catalog and I have been able to import it. When I put the original number back, it appears as _DSC6022-2.ARW.
It's not orthodox, I imagine, but at least I've solved the problem for now.
Any comments on this will be welcome.
Thank you for your attention and my apologies for my bad English.
Very cordially

Daniel

[Jill_C]

It seems that you might have deleted the image file from the hard drive, outside of LRC; therefore, LRC interpreted it as a duplicate when you tried to re-import it. 

[dj_paige · Accepted solution]

The photo was deleted from the drive, which makes me assume that there should be no trace of it in the Lightroom Classic backup, and yet it tells me that it may be a copy.

If you deleted the photo via your operating system, then the above statement is incorrect. The knowledge of the file is still in the Lightroom Classic database, and that's why LrC still thinks it exists, and that's why importing it again will result in LrC telling you this is a copy.

As stated above, IMPORTING is not the solution. Simply copying the photo (using your operating system) to the folder where the original was stored is the solution. No renaming needed.

And I disagree that you have solved the problem. Especially for anyone else reading along who may have the same problem, do NOT import the file again. The photo is now in the database twice, once with whatever edits you applied originally and with whatever metadata you applied originally, and a new unedited copy with no user-provided metadata, that you just imported. Importing the photo again as you did causes confusion by having the photo appear in two different places in your catalog, two different edits with two different metadata in your catalog.

[Daniel Araw]

Thanks for the feedback. I'll keep it in mind. I will try to make the appropriate corrections.

Cordially

Daniel