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dennishmiller
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February 23, 2024
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P: Importing duplicates from iPhone

  • February 23, 2024
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I took about 800 pictures on my iPhone while on vacation last week and added about 600 of them to a new LR catalog. These were not in sequence - a few from day 1, some from day 3, day 4, etc... When I got home,. I connected the phone to my Macbook, went to the catalog, and chose Import/Don't import suspected duplcaites, thinking LR would just grab the final 200 not yet in the catalog. But no - it wanted to reimport all 800. I would just delete the catalog and start over except that I already started work on a bunch of them and don't want to lose my edits. Any idea how to force LR to do its job properly? LR 13.0.1 on a MacBook Pro running Venture 13.5.2.

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    Rob_Cullen
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    Rob_CullenCommunity Expert
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    February 24, 2024

    If the pictures are in Lightroom-mobile on the iPhone (or are they not?), why are you even trying to Import by connecting  the phone to Macbook?

    If 'Sync' is turned on in LrC- all photos in Lightroom-mobile will automatically download to the local LrC catalog without needing to import 'phone > Macbook'.

     

     

    Regards. My System: Windows-11, Lightroom-Classic 15.1.1, Photoshop 27.3.1, ACR 18.1.1, Lightroom 9.0, Lr-iOS 10.4.0, Bridge 16.0.2 .
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    dennishmillerAuthor
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    February 24, 2024

    "If the pictures are in Lightroom-mobile on the iPhone". They are not.

    "If 'Sync' is turned on in LrC-"  It is not.

    "why are you even trying to Import by connecting  the phone to Macbook?"  Believe it or not, I actually know what I am doing.

    Rob_Cullen
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    Rob_CullenCommunity Expert
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    February 24, 2024

    Thanks for the reply.  You obviously know your stuff. I hope you get an answer to the problem.

     

     

    Regards. My System: Windows-11, Lightroom-Classic 15.1.1, Photoshop 27.3.1, ACR 18.1.1, Lightroom 9.0, Lr-iOS 10.4.0, Bridge 16.0.2 .
    Rikk Flohr_Photography
    Community Manager
    Rikk Flohr_PhotographyCommunity Manager
    Community Manager
    February 23, 2024

    Using Lightroom Classic 13.2, Canon 5D MK IV, on a Copy as DNG workflow, I cannot reproduce this. 

    Rikk Flohr: Adobe Photography Org
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    dennishmillerAuthor
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    February 23, 2024

    Also, I'm using an iPhone, not a Canon, so not sure how relevant your experience is to my problem. Also, why does CC say I am up to date if I am on 13.0.1 and the current ver is 13.2?

    Bob Somrak
    Bob Somrak
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    February 23, 2024

    No one wins here. If there is a bonafide bug, we want to know and react to it. Otherwise, why reply at all? 

    Perhaps another user will come along and be able to replicate this failure and provide the missing pieces that will enable a bug to be written. 

    Or you could contact Support at Adobe Customer Care and work one-on-one with an agent. 

    In any case, there is insufficient evidence, at this time, to warrant a bug. 

     


    This worked correctly on my Mac and LrC 13.2 importing by cable from Iphone.  

    Imported from Iphone

    Took 3 more photos

    Reimported and ONLY 3 photos were imported.

     

     

    M4 Pro Mac Mini. 48GB
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      dennishmillerAuthor
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      February 23, 2024

      Just to prove the point, here is a screenshot of the folder showing the dups that were creaetd when I tried adding just a few of the files that were already in the catalog. LR seems oblivious to this fact. 

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