It is and it isn't. With successive versions of Lightroom, I've found its ability to recognize duplicates has become looser ... possibly because Adobe received feedback that it was excluding new files that had the same filename or other metadata as existing files in the catalog had, I suspect. They probably loosened up the criteria as having a couple of duplicates is less annoying than not being able to understand why it won't bring the right files in.
If your original image file repository is structured in any of the standard "by date" organizations that Lightroom will do for you, you can take the backup directory and copy or move it into a similar directory structure by importing it into a NEW catalog. Then you can copy the remains of your original directory structure into it on a folder by folder basis, starting at the leaf nodes. Once you get there. set the catalog to look at the root of that directory structure and then use the Synchronize command. G On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 4:03 PM, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: > I ran into some problems running out of space on my computer. In the process > of trying to straighten things out, I may have deleted some files that I > didn't mean to. > > My plan was to point the import menu at the backup files that lightroom > makes, sorted into "backup by date". Unfortunately, even with "don't import > suspected duplicates" checked, it seems to want to import duplicates, not > just the files that have been accidentally deleted from the main tree. > > When I took Godfrey's lightroom class, he specifically said that Lightroom > was really good at recognizing duplicates, even if the name had changed, but > it's completely failing to do so in this case. Anybody have any idea what's > going wrong? > > Larry > > -- > Larry Colen [email protected] sent from i4est > > > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- Godfrey godfreydigiorgi.posterous.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
