Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/09/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]LR4 (and earlier I think) advertises that it can be set on an import operation to avoid duplicates. For a while, I considered this ability irrelevant because I would reformat my SD card in the camera after doing an import. However, realizing that the SD card is flash memory with a limited life, I thought it might be a good idea not to reformat it until I got too close to the end of its memory space. So, I tried an experiment. I took one picture. Imported it into LR4. Put the card back into the camera and took a second picture. Then did a second import into LR4, choosing the option "new pictures". The import took longer, as if it were reprocessing the second picture. When the import was over, there were only two pictures, but the second picture was labelled "copy 2". I then returned the card to the camera, took a third picture, and repeated the import. This time, the third picture appeared only once, but was labelled "copy 3" and the import process took even longer. I should have timed these imports, and if everyone tells me "I'm nuts," I'll repeat the experiment and time them. But I get the impression that it does not just look at the file names and skip the duplicates, but it first actually processes them and then discards--if true, that's just disgusting. Herb Herbert Kanner kanner at acm.org 650-326-8204 Question authority and the authorities will question you.