Comments on: Warning: Don’t Make These 5 Mistakes in Lightroom

By: Montas

Montas — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 20:44:08 +0000

Thank you for a good article.

By: jacky

jacky — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 08:53:57 +0000

hey , you guys intrested in camera must know there would lots of duplicate image files in your PC, if we do nothing to due with them, our PC & DC would not working well. Has anyone tried Smart Duplicate Finder this thing puts the others to shame. not only does it have crc32 and bit-bit compare, it also supports music meta tag comparison. You can specify individual folders or entire drives anywhere connected to your system.

By: WBC

WBC — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 00:54:08 +0000

@Kevin

I panic’d when I read your post above about DNG files changing if you view at 100% since I do automatic backups also. But when I played with it under LR3 viewing a DNG file at 100% did not cause the file to change in any way.

I assume any little change I made would trigger a change, but both simply viewing at 100% or even going into develop (but not changing anything) did not cause this to happen. It could be something fixed in LR3.

Not saying your wrong under previous versions, but this no longer seems to be an issue.

You are 100% correct though in that any change made to the file is stored internally in the DNG (not in a sidecar) so it would trigger a whole backup of the file. With offsite like that, yeah – you will notice it.

By: Arik Shalev

Arik Shalev — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 19:19:28 +0000

I liked the idea of saving as DNG – and have done so. But would DNG keep track of consecutive steps in editing a photo (as lightroom does)? Could these be reversible?

thanks

Arik

By: sef

sef — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 14:32:23 +0000

Sameer, i almost do the same (delete dublicates outside Lightroom) Also I need to make other works in my photo files outside Lr and i always use the following proccess:

1. Make a “goIN_goOUT” folder, with one image on it, and import it to Lr (you may keep it permanently for works like this)
2. Move (using Lr) the files you want to check/delete dublicates into goIN_goOUT folder.
3. Remove (not delete) the goIN_goOUT folder from Lr catalog. This unmounts the folder from Lr (photo files and XPM files are now on the new folder, not deleted).
4. WITHOUT Lr, find and delete the duplicate photos of goIN_goOUT folder (with any tool you use)
5. Re-import the goIN_goOUT folder into Lr
6. Using Lr, move all images of goIN_goOUT folder into their initial folder(s).

Working with batches of 1500 photos this proccess is taking about 5 – 7 minutes.
For specifying/deleting dublicates i use Duplicate Files Finder (http://doubles.sourceforge.net/ … it is opensource, and works really fast – handles all kind of files)
I use Lr v.3, hope the trick will work on v.2 too.

PS. Sorry for my bad english

By: sameer chavan

sameer chavan — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 08:04:18 +0000

I have hugh duplicate files in lightroom. I am using an external tool to delete some 1500 photos as there is no pluging that does this job easily. I saw Duplicate Finder for Adobe® Lightroom(http://www.lightroom-plugins.com/DupesIndex.php). But it doesent select the duplicates. It is a big mess to select 1000 photos. So the only option to delete duplicates is outside lightroom. I only know of this http://www.hardcoded.net/dupeguru_pe/ (dupeGuru Picture ).
My question is – if i delete them outside lightroom, how to update my lightroom catalogue now as it will have all missing links to images.

By: Verity

Verity — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 10:54:40 +0000

Douglas, re: LR vs Aperture. The latter is very good indeed.
LR has one benefit, in that it is cross-platform software: you can use it on a PC or MAC. So, if you have, for instance, a desktop PC but carry a little mac around on shoots, or vice versa, you’re covered either way.
(I should add that you can have LR installed on 2 computers for this very reason – not for use by two different people, as it set out in the license agreement)

By: Verity

Verity — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 10:49:56 +0000

Another vote here in favour of NOT converting to DNG. After upgrading from a kit lens to a better lens, I was interested to compare two sets of photos in Bridge: my .NEF (nikon raw) files, and my .DNG (Adobe raw) files.
The original raw files were far better. Admittedly LR now has camera pre-sets (including ones for Nikon), but even after developing with those, the photos were not as good as the original raw files.
I’d rather have images that reflect what i was trying to capture, and then process from there, rather than processing for ages to get the image I first shot.
I now shoot RAW and JPEG, save my raw files and JPEGS separately, before copying and importing the .NEFs into LR.
I can always convert them to DNG later down the track, if I decide to. In the meantime, I’m not wasting time with Adobe’s less than ideal renderings.

By: Joe Boris

Joe Boris — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 18:49:11 +0000

Hi Helen,

Can you help me, please?

What if I’ve somehow lost the sidecars to a few files shot several years ago? (I’d renamed the files and folder, and had moved it outside of Lightroom when I first started using Lightroom.)

1. Are the RAW capture settings recoverable?

2. Is all of that original RAW data still in my RAW file, so that further manipulations can access all of the RAW data? (It only appears now as I last ‘developed’ it in LR, w/o default ‘as shot’ settings.)

3. Lightroom has also crashed now, telling me that my ‘catalog is corrupted and cannot be repaired’. Any fixes?

Thanks very much!
Joe

By: Naveed

Naveed — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 14:05:24 +0000

I was finding a MISSING Link photo in lightroom. I mistakenly chosen a wrong image. It showed me a warning and I continued. Now I want to re-link the image. Its not showing me any option. Is there any solution? (I can’t move the original file) because its linked in another catalog

thanks in advance.