Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/09/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Thanks, Geoff. You solved my problem. I'll write off line with another question. Herb Herbert Kanner kanner at acm.org 650-326-8204 Question authority and the authorities will question you. On Sep 4, 2012, at 1:45 AM, Geoff Hopkinson wrote: > You appear to have your settings misconfigured in up to three places. > On import the options are Copy as DNG, Copy, Move or Add > If you are using Add you are adding the file to your catalog* in its > current location which is still on the memory card and not copying it to > your computer at all.* > * *The catalog records where the file is or where you have copied it to and > stories edit info within the catalog itself. > > While you can add files to your catalog that reside on an external drive > (but not a network location) that is not what you intended I think. > > The option you want is *Don't Import Suspected Duplicates *which is a* * > radio > button on the RHS panel (file handling box). If you have collapsed that > boxGeo > you may not have seen it. > > Where you have elected to add files to your catalog without that option *Or > File Renaming* LR will add it again to the catalog but add a 1 or two to > the file name to avoid a conflict with duplicates in same location. > On import LR will initially read the embedded previews (which are low > quality in DNGs especially) before it can do that sort for you. Then in the > background it will render new previews (quality dependant on your > preference selection) from every file after it is imported. > Times are also affected by number of files naturally as well as computing > resources available. > > > Cheers, > Geoff > http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman > > > > On 4 September 2012 14:07, 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 >> > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information