[Leica] Lightroom Problems - Peter

[Gerry Walden]

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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