[Leica] TECH : Pb with scanned JPEGs & LR - Technies' help welcome.

[Brian Reid]

In my experience, when LR does not see an image file it is because LR 
thinks that the image file is a "sidecar" file. Try enabling the option 
to import two versions of the same image separately.

On 2020-05-02 7:48 am, Philippe via LUG wrote:
> This is a call for help from the technies on board.
> 
> I’m scanning old slides using an ageing  3170 photo epson scanner on 
> the I-mac.
> 
> I scan them in the highest res (officially 6400) and then import them 
> in LR.
> 
> This works more or less (see below) when I select TIFF, but the files
> are massive …
> 
> So I tried JPEG. So far so good. I can see them in Preview.
> 
> BUT LR doesn’t see them when I want to import them.
> 
> Most surprisingly, PS does. If I open one such JPEG in PS, and save it
> as a JPEG, LR then sees it and accepts to import it ...
> 
> Any clue as to why, contrary to PS of the same generation
> (subscription and automatically updated) LR is blind to these JPEGs?
> And is there any (simple) cure?
> 
> 
> OTHER: the TIFF files also MAY be unreadable on import but at least LR
> tells me they exist and can’t be read out. This happens randomly. In a
> batch of 4 slides I may get a 25% to 50% error rate …
> 
> Thanks in anticipation for any help from insiders :-)
> 
> Amities
> 
> Philippe
> 
> 
> 
> 
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