Prevent Lightroom importing JPG JPEG

Adobe when are you going to wake up?

Lack of simple tick box exclude jpgs would save so much time. I have thousands of unwanted jpgs to be removed mannaully
And file folder moving and relinking lost folders is still a nightmare

You will lose the game with competition

Adobe, please make it possible to select which file types to import into Lightroom Classic CC.  

What I did: Open Lightroom - Go to Lightroom and Preferences - On Preferences in General Tab Uncheck "Treat JPEG files next to raw files as separate photos" - Import again the folder (this time as you can see in the import window only NEF/RAW files will appear and only this will get imported)

P.S. Before all, I deleted my previous Lightroom folder with all the JPG and RAW files (since I haven't edited anything and I didn't want JPG... just don't have the patience to deleted it one by one) and started from scratch importing just the RAW files.

Well, Lightroom 5 for me never showed jpgs if I had raw files.  I have all the options set correctly and it still shows the jpg files.  Using most recent version of Lightroom.

The issue with manually selecting just RAW files is that sometimes I need the JPEG. I have to shoot RAW+JPEG to enable transferring photos to my phone while away from my computer -- the Sony software doesn't transfer a full-size image to the iPhone unless the JPEG is included with the RAW. But, sometimes the camera has to shoot JPEG only, specifically for modes like HDR or panoramic. So, I can't ignore ALL JPEGs, I just want Lightroom to not import the JPEG if the RAW is present for the same photo. Why isn't there an option in Lightroom to do that?

*edit - didn't read through the entire thread.  there was previous poster who recommended the same thing.  I can confirm it works well!

hi Michael,

I stumbled across your post through a web search.  I too was experiencing the same problem as you and wanted a quick and easy way to only import the RAW files.  After many more web searches and not finding a reasonable solution, I did some brainstorming.  Here is what I found and what worked well.  I did a search on my hard drive using the *.NEF  The wildcard character, *, then found all NEF files.  (NEF is the Nikon RAW file).  Once this search completed, I used the cut command, then pasted into a newly created folder.  Then I went to lightroom and imported from this newly created "NEF" folder.  This worked very well for me and only took about 20 minutes.

The fact that issues like this are,in fact, an issue, tells me a lot about Lightroom 6. It's been a time consuming nightmare to download. Every small issue takes an hour to fix. 1 issue: My pictures only import as raw. How that happened I have no idea. I'll have to spend another several hours trying to fix that simple problem! Adobe Lightroom  is like Comcast. As soon as a viable competitor comes along I'm so gone.

I know this is an old thread, but I thought I would point something out, since this is the first thread I came across on Google regardsing this, and it might benefit others.

If you don't want jpeg or other files like videos included in an import, just open the explorer/folder window of your operating system that the files are in, then do a search for the file type you want. In my case, the Nikon raw file would be *.NEF. After the filetype search completes, but Lightroom and the explorer/folder window side by side. So then just select all of them from the search results and drag them into the Lightroom Library window. This will import only the raw files. Done.

Lightroom 5 does have a sorting function. You can chosse among 5 settings: "Capture time", "Checked state", "File name", "Media type" and "Off". None of these are any help, not even "Media type".

Here Adobe should do some changes asap! Put a filetype filter instead of Media type (which is moore or less useless).

As DdeGannes said, if you just want to hide the jpegs, then uncheck "Treat JPEG files next to raw files as seperate photos" ( they will still be copied from card to hard disk, and be moved around and renamed along with the raw - i.e. in like fashion as xmp sidecar file ). If this is your aim or close enough to it, then read no further.

If you want to assure jpeg is not copied to hard disk (instead of just hidden / treated like a sidecar), it's trickier, since the sort option in the import dialog box does not support sorting by file type/extension, so unchecking all the jpegs is a bother.

My advice? just import the jpegs and then delete them (easier if "Treat JPEG files next to raw files as seperate photos" is checked, in this case).

If you really want to simply exclude jpegs when importing, consider Ottomanic Importer which supports "Raws Only". Here is a cut from import options box:

Note 'Import File Types' drop-down menu.

Rob