Why are you reimporting the files? If you only deleted the files, and the pictures are still in your catalog, just re-point them to the backup files.
On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 7:03 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. -- David Parsons Photography http://www.davidparsonsphoto.com Aloha Photographer Photoblog http://alohaphotog.blogspot.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.

