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J-see

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Yesterday after importing my shots in LR for a second I was wondering if I hadn't taken more shots of a particular scene. I didn't give it much attention thinking I was probably mistaken.

Today I went out to take a couple of shots and after importing noticed some weren't added. I checked the source and all were present but for some unknown reason LR decided not to import those.
Then I checked my shots of yesterday and indeed, some were still there and LR had skipped them while importing.

Did anyone else have problems with this?
 
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sonicbuffalo_RIP

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J-see said:
Yesterday after importing my shots in LR for a second I was wondering if I hadn't taken more shots of a particular scene. I didn't give it much attention thinking I was probably mistaken.

Today I went out to take a couple of shots and after importing noticed some weren't added. I checked the source and all were present but for some unknown reason LR decided not to import those.
Then I checked my shots of yesterday and indeed, some were still there and LR had skipped them while importing.

Did anyone else have problems with this?
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What about the box for "don't import suspected duplicates?" How was that setting used? Did I get that right?
 
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J-see

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I indeed have that checked but I can shoot six shots continuous at high shutter and it imports those without a problem. Last night and today I had several rather similar shots (but way more different than my bursts) and it ignored them.

Some of the ignored shots were the same scene but me having stepped back quite some to get more into it. LR really has to stretch it to consider that a "suspected" duplicate.

To add: when I checked them while importing again, it didn't even say or indicate suspected duplicate.
 
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sonicbuffalo_RIP

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J-see said:
I indeed have that checked but I can shoot six shots continuous at high shutter and it imports those without a problem. Last night and today I had several rather similar shots (but way more different than my bursts) and it ignored them.

Some of the ignored shots were the same scene but me having stepped back quite some to get more into it. LR really has to stretch it to consider that a "suspected" duplicate.
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Just for a trial.....try unchecking it, and then shooting some similar scenes. I leave mine on for suspected duplicates all the time and have never had that problem either.
 
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J-see

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sonicbuffalo said:
Just for a trial.....try unchecking it, and then shooting some similar scenes. I leave mine on for suspected duplicates all the time and have never had that problem either.
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I'll try that next time. I never had any problem until yesterday. I can easily import the skipped ones but it would be annoying if each time I have to check if LR has done its job or not.
 
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Krs_2007

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I thought the duplicate checking only compared file names, at least that has been the only time it skipped on me.


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J-see

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Krs_2007 said:
I thought the duplicate checking only compared file names, at least that has been the only time it skipped on me.


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It's strange at the least. When I select import and go back to my folder, it automatically fades out the shots I already imported. Those it considers suspected duplicates. Yet the shots it skipped weren't faded and as such considered to be imported shots. They're even auto-checked for import.
 
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Krs_2007

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J-see said:
It's strange at the least. When I select import and go back to my folder, it automatically fades out the shots I already imported. Those it considers suspected duplicates. Yet the shots it skipped weren't faded and as such considered to be imported shots. They're even auto-checked for import.
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that is strange, guess I should keep an eye on this.
 
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wornish

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I will be amazed if Lightroom does any more than check the file names and possibly a bit of the EXIF data, it certainly doesn't scan the actual image in some way that would require significant processing power and time.

One other thought that crossed my mind is maybe your memory card is faulty. Have you tried re-formatting it, or better still try using another one.
 
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J-see

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wornish said:
I will be amazed if Lightroom does any more than check the file names and possibly a bit of the EXIF data, it certainly doesn't scan the actual image in some way that would require significant processing power and time.

One other thought that crossed my mind is maybe your memory card is faulty. Have you tried re-formatting it, or better still try using another one.
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The shots were already on my computer. I never import shots directly using LR.
 
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wornish

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J-see said:
The shots were already on my computer. I never import shots directly using LR.
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In that case it may be your hard drive that has an issue. Not sure what system you use but it might be worth doing a disk verify if its a MAC not sure what the windows equivalent is.

Software doesn't just stop doing something for no reason.
 
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J-see

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wornish said:
In that case it may be your hard drive that has an issue. Not sure what system you use but it might be worth doing a disk verify if its a MAC not sure what the windows equivalent is.

Software doesn't just stop doing something for no reason.
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It could be but then I should encounter more problems with other soft too. Once my drive starts malfunctioning, it isn't selective. I'll keep an eye on it.
 
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Krs_2007

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J-see said:
It could be but then I should encounter more problems with other soft too. Once my drive starts malfunctioning, it isn't selective. I'll keep an eye on it.
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I used to go directly to a folder like that, but quit. No reason, just trying to shorten my workflow. If I am doing a shoot for a family then I will make a backup of the RAW files. Might be why I never encountered this. Try going directly from the card to see if it happens again, to rule out one piece of the equation.
 
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J-see

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I've gone to the card once with LR and I had a shave, dinner and a good nap before it was finished. I'm not sure what happened there but never again. If I use Nikon's to import, check what's good and then import those in LR, I'm still faster.
 
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J-see

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The latest. 5.7

I did plenty a moon shot last night (on tripod) and those shots couldn't have looked more identical but LR imported them all without a problem. So it hasn't got anything to do with suspected duplicates.
 
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J-see

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Last night it happened again. I was importing shots and it forgot 3 of them. When going to import again, it auto-checked them for import.

I have no idea what causes this problem but assume it to be a bug. I never happened before the 5.7 version but now once in a while happens for some unknown reason.

Anyone importing loads of shots from the card might want to keep an eye on it. I convert to DNG and I can always retrieve one of both in case something happens. But if you import from card and under the assumption you got them, format it afterwards, you might lose some shots.
 
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J-see

Senior Member
I've been trying to replicate the problem and although on 6 or 7 tries it only happened once, after some checking I noticed the problem isn't an import issue.

What happens is that LR imports them all but occasionally forgets to add some to the catalogue. They are correctly imported to their folder but because they are not added to the catalogue, it is as if they don't exist.

This didn't happen before the 5.7 and I have found one at adobe complaining about the same bug so it is not a specific problem for me alone.
 
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