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Subject: [Leica] Lightroom Problems - Peter
From: gerry.walden at icloud.com (Gerry Walden)
Date: Fri, 08 May 2015 07:34:24 +0100
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Peter

Thanks for your thoughts. All images are now found so I have lost nothing, 
but the folders are a mess. I have decided to deal with it on an image by 
image basis as and when I need them which is working quite well. It is more 
complex than I thought and has affected .dng as well as .raf files. In some 
cases I have up to 4 .dng copies of the same image, maybe one with a random 
number, two with identical numbers but the one that I have marked before as 
OK with no captions, and another with all captions etc. but not 
post-processed. Chaos reigns!

Gerry

Gerry Walden
023 8046 3076

> On 8 May 2015, at 00:17, Peter Dzwig <pdzwig at summaventures.com> wrote:
> 
> If you run Linux you could use Shotwell. You could also do it from the 
> command
> line. All of which presumes that you could find where LR has put the 
> files, but
> from what you are saying I think that you have located them.
> 
> Peter
> 
> On 06/05/2015 20:46, Gerry Walden wrote:
>> That is a good thought Peter which I will look into. Thank you for the 
>> suggestion. 
>> 
>> Gerry
>> 
>> Sent from my iPad
>> 
>>> On 6 May 2015, at 18:57, Peter Dzwig <pdzwig at summaventures.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Gerry,
>>> 
>>> do you have a package that will allow you to do a bulk rename? It would 
>>> be a bit
>>> tedious, but you ought then to be able to rename all the .xmp files 
>>> according to
>>> your new convention.
>>> 
>>> Peter
>>> 
>>>> On 06/05/2015 14:55, Gerry Walden wrote:
>>>> I am having problems with Lightroom and I am not sure of a way out of 
>>>> it. I will try and explain.
>>>> 
>>>> My numbering system for images was to start with a year number followed 
>>>> by W for Walden, and this was done in-camera so I would end up with a 
>>>> number such as 14W3257, but I decided this would date an image too 
>>>> clearly to viewers so I decided to replace the initial number with 
>>>> letters based on the alphabet, and I have done this through Lightroom.  
>>>> This means the example above would become ADW-3257 instead. What has 
>>>> happened is that whilst the image file has been renumbered the 
>>>> associated .xmp file has not been resulting in the loss of all 
>>>> captioning for the renumbered files. The disassociated .xmp files are 
>>>> appearing in LR in what I can best describe as blank slides (i.e. no 
>>>> image) and showing the original file number. These are marked ?!? as 
>>>> missing.
>>>> 
>>>> It is relatively easy to re-associate them on a one-to-one basis but 
>>>> this is very tedious, and despite putting questions on the Adobe forums 
>>>> and Luminous Landscape nobody has so far come up with an answer.
>>>> 
>>>> I am posting this here partly to warn others that this could happen, 
>>>> and secondly to see if anybody can suggest a viable solution. I am now 
>>>> converting images I know to be OK to .dng files in the hope that it 
>>>> will not happen again.
>>>> 
>>>> Gerry.
>>>> 
>>>> Gerry Walden
>>>> www.gwpics.com
>>>> Fujifilm X-World Photographer
>>>> +44 (0)23 8046 3076 or
>>>> +44 (0)797 287 7932
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Gerry Walden
>>>> 023 8046 3076
>>>> 
>>>> 
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