[Leica] Help? Lightroom refusing to import

[Leo Wesson]

Hi Brian  ,

Maybe try converting them to dng?

Or copy them and trash the sidecar files and then try to import again?

Thanks,

Leo Wesson
817-733-9157
Leo at leowesson.com

> On Nov 27, 2023, at 9:14 PM, Tina Manley via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> wrote:
> 
> Try upgrading LR to the latest version.  Good luck!
> 
> Tina
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
>> On Nov 27, 2023, at 10:01 PM, Don Dory via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> wrote:
>> 
>> It will be a kludge and should be tested on one image.  Open one in Bridge
>> or PS then save to a new folder as a TIFF file..  Then see if LR will touch
>> it.   If so then you are good to go.
>> 
>> Also, I assume you have contacted the photographer inquiring as to any tags
>> they put on files to make them proofs.  If so perhaps the files could be
>> resent as clean files.  Or, have the files sent as they were straight out
>> of the camera.
>> 
>>>> On Mon, Nov 27, 2023, 7:24 PM Brian Reid <reid at mejac.carlsbad.ca.us> wrote:
>>> 
>>> We hired a professional to photograph my mother's funeral service.
>>> We paid him very well, and got ownership rights of the images. He
>>> delivered about 100 images.
>>> 
>>> Lightroom refuses to import them. It just sits there.
>>> I made a new test catalog, and tried importing one image. Same thing. It
>>> hangs.
>>> Photoshop will open them.
>>> Topaz will open them.
>>> Apple Preview will open them.
>>> Bridge will open and manipulate them.
>>> Apple's "Photos" app will import them.
>>> Lightroom refuses to touch them.
>>> 
>>> Is there some kind of a Digital Rights Management flag you can put on an
>>> image file that will make it impossible to load into Lightroom?
>>> 
>>> Lightroom Classic 13.0.1 Release.
>>> 
>>> I have searched carefully, in Bridge, for metadata that might express an
>>> opinion to Lightroom, but haven't found anything.
>>> 
>>> Does anybody know what might be going on?
>>> 
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