Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/05/06

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Subject: [Leica] Lightroom Problems
From: gerry.walden at icloud.com (Gerry Walden)
Date: Wed, 06 May 2015 14:55:56 +0100

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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