Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/05/07

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Subject: [Leica] Lightroom Problems
From: gerry.walden at icloud.com (Gerry Walden)
Date: Fri, 08 May 2015 07:37:50 +0100
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Adam

All images are now found so I have lost nothing, but the folders are a mess. 
I have decided to deal with it on an image by image basis as and when I need 
them which is working quite well. It is more complex than I thought and has 
affected .dng as well as .raf files. In some cases I have up to 4 .dng 
copies of the same image, maybe one with a random number, two with identical 
numbers but the one that I have marked before as OK with no captions, and 
another with all captions etc. but not post-processed. Chaos reigns!

I have no idea exactly when this occurred because I have been renumbering 
within folders for the last couple of months. I had not noticed it before 
switching to LR6 but that does not mean it was not there, and yes I did the 
renaming in LR5.

My system is a newish Mac Mini (maybe 6 months old) running all the latest 
software.

Gerry

Gerry Walden
023 8046 3076

> On 8 May 2015, at 01:11, Adam Bridge <abridge at mac.com> wrote:
> 
> This is very troubling, Gerry.
> 
> I?ve played a bit this afternoon to see if I could duplicate your results. 
> Running Lightroom 2015 CC on MacOS Yosemite 10.10.3 I could not reproduce 
> this. 
> 
> I think you should submit a bug report to Adobe.
> 
> For my own peace of mind: what is your system configuration and when did 
> you do the renaming operation? I?m assuming you used Lightroom to do the 
> rename. I?d certainly have expected the side-car files to be renamed at 
> the same time.
> 
> Adam
> 
>> On 2015 May 6, at 6:55 AM, Gerry Walden <gerry.walden at icloud.com> 
>> wrote:
>> 
>> 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.
> 
> 
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