Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/09/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Herbert, In my experience it reads the files to make thumbnails. Duplicates are grayed out and the new ones are vivid. I don't think you have to worry to much about wearing out your SD card. They've done a lot to make flash memory last much longer than it did in early days. I have not experienced the behavior you report although my workflow renames files as they are gathered rather than keeping the useless names the camera gives them. Adam On 2012 Sep 3, at 9:07 PM, Herbert Kanner <kanner at acm.org> wrote: > LR4 (and earlier I think) advertises that it can be set on an import > operation to avoid duplicates. For a while, I considered this ability > irrelevant because I would reformat my SD card in the camera after doing > an import. However, realizing that the SD card is flash memory with a > limited life, I thought it might be a good idea not to reformat it until I > got too close to the end of its memory space. > > So, I tried an experiment. I took one picture. Imported it into LR4. Put > the card back into the camera and took a second picture. Then did a second > import into LR4, choosing the option "new pictures". The import took > longer, as if it were reprocessing the second picture. When the import was > over, there were only two pictures, but the second picture was labelled > "copy 2". I then returned the card to the camera, took a third picture, > and repeated the import. > > This time, the third picture appeared only once, but was labelled "copy 3" > and the import process took even longer. > > I should have timed these imports, and if everyone tells me "I'm nuts," > I'll repeat the experiment and time them. But I get the impression that it > does not just look at the file names and skip the duplicates, but it first > actually processes them and then discards--if true, that's just disgusting. > > Herb > > Herbert Kanner > kanner at acm.org > 650-326-8204 > > Question authority and the authorities will question you. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information