The weird thing was that if files were in the active directory tree, then lightroom would find the duplicates and do just fine not importing them. However, with them in the backup_by_date_imported directory tree, it just imports everything.
I know that there are people who claim that you don't need to sort the raw files into meaningful directories, and that's just fine until you make a disk of jpegs for someone who wants to find something without using lightroom. On Jul 19, 2012, at 12:57 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: > 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. -- 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.
