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Errol Heywood
Errol Heywood
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December 23, 2022
Question

Adds a suffix -2 to uploaded images.

  • December 23, 2022
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This 'may' be a seperate problem to my earlier post and so I have posted it as a seperate topic though included some information from my previous post for comleteness.

 

I recently changed my AdobeCreative Cloud type from LR+PS+20Gb of Cloud data to just LR+1Tb of Cloud data with the intention of going completely online with my post-processing and image library. (I did have Lightroom Classic installed on my laptop but as this was no longer accessible to me after I changed CC plans I deleted it from my hard drive).

I then added images from an external drive using the 'File/Add Photos' menu option and waited for them to load into LR. Later in the session I then closed LR and disconnected the external drive.

 

During subsequent editing sessions I notice that the images I have worked on have been given the suffix '-2' both in LR and on my external drive and it is these suffixed images that now contain valid image with the original image name now appearing as containing 0 bytes. I have upladed an images of the files on my hard drive to show this.

 

Can anyone shed any light on why this may be happening?

 

 

 

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J
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Jao vdLCommunity Expert
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December 24, 2022

Have you by any chance set the local storage location to the external drive? (Preferences->Local storage->Storage Location for Originals)

    Errol Heywood
    Errol HeywoodAuthor
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    December 26, 2022

    No, it is set as shown in the attached image.

    Should I set it to the external drive and if so which one as I have two? Either one or both may be connected at any one time.

     

    J
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    Jao vdLCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    December 26, 2022

    Thanks for the analysis I will have to go through what you said and do a bit of investigation.

     

    BTW the inverted comma's around "Other" have been inserted by LR as none of my file names have special characters for the reason you mention.


    Ah! that makes sense then. They used to display external disk names as /Volumes/<Disk Name> but they now apparently do the name between quotes. Interesting.

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