Photos in catalouge and cards, "Suspected Duplicates" - EPIC FAIL
Scenario: I'm out in the field filling memory cards and reviewing them on my secondary PC (laptop), marking & editing various images at night. I do not manage to import all of the photos off of all of my cards (and can't due to disk space requirements). I want to keep the edits and work (and images, due to running out of cards I formated some of them that I _knew_ were in the LR catalouge AND backed up onto other devices).
I get home to my primary PC and export the laptop catalouge and then import it, WIN. I start importing images from cards that ARE NOT IN THE CATALOUGE, also WIN. I put in a card that has AT LEAST _SOME_ (but not necessarily all) images in the exported catalouge. Lightroom FAILS to notice that images that were imported FROM THE SAME CARD into the Laptop & Desktop with THE SAME CATALOUGE are duplicates!
What I want to do is to BE SURE that all of my images are in my primary/desktop catalouge WITHOUT dupes. I want to insert the memory card and have LR import ONLY THE ONES IT DOES NOT ALREADY have. This seems like somehting LR should automagically support, but apparently not. How do I accomplish what I want to do without doing something rediculous like importing everything regardless, then buying a de-duping tool, deleting the duplicate images using file system tools, then removing the not found images manually from LR?
I DID NOT find this fourm thread to be especially helpful for me:
http://forums.adobe.com/message/4843896#4843896
Please help!
Yes, I give custom names on import For example, right now I'm working on importing photos from a card that has early images (i.e. the compact flash file
H:\NIKON D800\DCIM\101ND800\_PL81846.NEF
). I did not alter the memory card in any way (unless importing the images to LR on the laptop somehow altered them).
After importing the exported catalouge, my PC has
D:\Users\liels\My Pictures\Source Pictures\2013\01\06\20130106-Bosque-del-Apache-_PL81846.nef
But
H:\NIKON D800\DCIM\101ND800\_PL81846.NEF
still shows up as non-dupe. This is different than if I import
H:\NIKON D800\DCIM\101ND800\_PL81846.NEF
with the Desktop creating
D:\Users\liels\My Pictures\Source Pictures\2013\01\06\20130106-Bosque-del-Apache-_PL81846.nef
and then insert the memory card. In that case the "suspected duplicates" correctly identifies that
H:\NIKON D800\DCIM\101ND800\_PL81846.NEF
is a duplicate of
D:\Users\liels\My Pictures\Source Pictures\2013\01\06\20130106-Bosque-del-Apache-_PL81846.nef
But that DOES NOT happen when
D:\Users\liels\My Pictures\Source Pictures\2013\01\06\20130106-Bosque-del-Apache-_PL81846.nef
is created as a result of importing an exported catalouge, even though the source for the image is the very same card, e.g.
H:\NIKON D800\DCIM\101ND800\_PL81846.NEF.
I can, in fact import the image with the EXACT SAME renaming scheme & keywords and LR will SILENTLY(!) create
D:\Users\liels\My Pictures\Source Pictures\2013\01\06\20130106-Bosque-del-Apache-_PL81846-2.nef
not bothering to ask me if that is what I want or not (my naming scheme DOES NOT ask for ZZZ-FILENAME-X, but it creates it silently anyway)
Design FAIL
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