Photos sent to file on desktop when importing from memory card

The photos sent to a file when importing from a memory card appear in the file as Adobe documents and cannot be opened. If I try to open a message appears 'Adobe Reader cannot open this document as it is not a supported file/
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Just installed LR3 thanks to Santa. Have been going thru the video tutorials as well as the Lightroom_3_Help PDF and Lightroom-GettingStarted_Lo PDF but I can't figure out how to simply delete files from the gitgo when importing from SD Card or from my HDD (files already moved to HDD but not yet culled or imported into LR3). I was hoping I could, in LIBRARY, just r/c on a file that is plainly not worth keeping and just delete it so I dont have to do it later. Seems like I could, this way, be able to concentrate more on the shots requiring editing.
Also, need suggestions as to how I should import my files using DNG, Copy, Move, or Add. First off, I am not a working pro but am an occasional serious amateur. I'm picky and I like things to look good the first time and I like options. The pix already on my HDD are in the PICTURES folder; those imported from SD card get moved to that PICTURES folder. I have, in the past, moved the processed verssions to a different DESTINATION folder - now I still have the originals and I have processed copies to post and share.
I understand that LR3 does ND editing but I assume that if I only keep a DNG then any time I want a JPEG or PNG of a picture I have to open LR3 to make one. Since I only have been shooting a few hundred pix a year (though with my new D5000 this will change) I am not gonna load up my HDD any time soon. So, is there a way I can make a DNG file, keep the original RAW or JPEG file AND save a processed JPEG or PNG copy in my DESTINATION folder in one swell foop?
Thanks in advance,
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Phil,
PhilipCWells wrote:
I understand that LR3 does ND editing but I assume that if I only keep a DNG then any time I want a JPEG or PNG of a picture I have to open LR3 to make one. Since I only have been shooting a few hundred pix a year (though with my new D5000 this will change) I am not gonna load up my HDD any time soon. So, is there a way I can make a DNG file, keep the original RAW or JPEG file AND save a processed JPEG or PNG copy in my DESTINATION folder in one swell foop?
The LR Exchange site has three plug-ins that allow you to keep a "mirror" copy of your DNG/RAW images in JPG format for use by others without having to go into LR and generate them when needed. The link is:
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/exchange/index.cfm?searchfield=tree&search_exchange=25&search _category=-1&search_license=&search_rating=&search_platform=0&search_pubdate=&num=25&start num=1&event=search&sticky=true&sort=0&rnav_dummy_tmpfield=&Submit=
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Confusion re: photostream, import from memory card, events, etc.

confusion re: photostream, import from memory card, events, etc.
Up until a few weeks ago, my travel-photo-handling went like this:
Each night, I download photos to my iPad for safekeeping. They, of course, wind up in Photostream.
When I return home, I connect my camera card to my iMac (where I have my iPhoto library), and I can "see" the photos on my memory card - the photos which, although in Photostream, I have not yet manually downloaded.
I select and ownload them.
New Events are created in my Library automatically, as I have my preference set to Autosplit Events.
This week, I came home from a trip during which I had downloaded to iPad during my time away.
I connected my memory card to the iMac.
iPhoto did not "see" any photos to import - as far as iPhoto was concerned, those photos were already in my Library.
I had iPhoto show all photos on my card, selected the photos from my trip (I shot over 1000) and clicked "Import Selected"
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However, the photos have NOT been downloaded manually and there are NO Events in my Library for those days.
Note: yeah, they're in Photostream, but IN THE PAST - and I mean literally up until 3 weeks ago - the photos have ALWAYS been "visible" and importable even if in Photostream, as long as I had not yet manually downloaded to the computer.
So my question, I guess, is multi-part:
What changed in iPhoto and/or Photostream in the past couple of weeks?
Why are Photostream photos suddenly considered to be the same as the photos on my card which have not yet been manually downloaded to the computer?
What the heck is going on?
I hate having duplicates, but I also hate being confused by something that used to be really easy, then - with Photosream - became annoying, and is now simply perplexing and sometimes imcomprehendable.

Check iPhoto's Photo Stream preference pane to see if the highlighted checkbox in the screenshot below is checked. If it is then all photos taken by the iPad are automatifdally being imported into your library.
Go the the Events mode and check the View ➙ Sort menu option to verify where new Evens will be located, at the top of the window or the bottom. Then check to see if your PS pictures are there.
As a test launch iPhoto with the Option key held down and create a new, test library. Connect your iPad and import all photos. Dismount the iPad, close and reopen the test library, connect the iPad again and test to see if the same problem persists. Does it?
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http://forums.usa.canon.com/t5/PowerShot/How-do-I-recover-photos-deleted-from-the-memory-card/m-p/84...
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Yeah that is the strange thing. I've double-checked and they are all the same format: _.ORF
Can there be a raw .ORF file and a non-raw .ORF??
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I am using snow leopard with Iphoto. I never had any problems but now I am not able to import pictures into the library. Iphoto crashes whenever I am trying to import from an SD card. I need to restart the computer to be able to use Iphoto again. Is there a limit of the library size? I read something about 250000 pictures but I am far away from this number. What might be the problem?

Hi Terence,
here is the first part of the crash report:
Date/Time:
2012-05-23 08:12:54 +0200
OS Version:
10.6.8 (Build 10K549)
Architecture:
i386
Report Version: 7
Command:
iPhoto
Path:
/Applications/iPhoto.app/Contents/MacOS/iPhoto
Version:
9.2.3 (9.2.3)
Build Version:   1
Project Name:
iPhotoProject
Source Version: 629052000000000
Parent:
launchd [108]
PID:
351
Event:
hang
Duration:
12.62s (sampling started after 2 seconds)
Steps:
87 (100ms sampling interval)
Pageins:
41
Pageouts:
0
Process:
iPhoto [351]
Path:
/Applications/iPhoto.app/Contents/MacOS/iPhoto
UID:
501
Thread 1adf
DispatchQueue 1
User stack:
87 ??? (in iPhoto + 63065) [0x10659]
87 ??? (in iPhoto + 65994) [0x111ca]
87 NSApplicationMain + 574 (in AppKit) [0x963d9289]
87 -[NSApplication run] + 821 (in AppKit) [0x963e11f3]
87 -[NSApplication nextEventMatchingMask:untilDate:inMode:dequeue:] + 156 (in AppKit) [0x9641edd6]
87 _DPSNextEvent + 847 (in AppKit) [0x9641f595]
87 BlockUntilNextEventMatchingListInMode + 81 (in HIToolbox) [0x919b2a3e]
87 ReceiveNextEventCommon + 354 (in HIToolbox) [0x919b2bb9]
87 RunCurrentEventLoopInMode + 392 (in HIToolbox) [0x919b2e04]
87 CFRunLoopRunInMode + 97 (in CoreFoundation) [0x99dad1f1]
87 CFRunLoopRunSpecific + 452 (in CoreFoundation) [0x99dad3c4]
87 __CFRunLoopRun + 1071 (in CoreFoundation) [0x99dadeef]
87 __CFRunLoopDoSources0 + 1563 (in CoreFoundation) [0x99db042b]
87 __NSThreadPerformPerform + 506 (in Foundation) [0x90d31671]
87 -[RKInvoker _invokeTarget:] + 33 (in RedRock) [0x1d7b8d1]
87 -[NSInvocation invoke] + 136 (in CoreFoundation) [0x99deae18]
87 __invoking___ + 29 (in CoreFoundation) [0x99deaead]
87 ??? (in iPhoto + 2737120) [0x29d3e0]
87 ??? (in iPhoto + 569871) [0x8c20f]
87 ??? (in iPhoto + 570330) [0x8c3da]
87 ICACopyObjectPropertyDictionary + 117 (in ImageCapture) [0x9a60d396]
87 ICACommand::ProcessCommand() + 76 (in ImageCapture) [0x9a60a4e4]
87 ICACommand::SendSync() + 65 (in ImageCapture) [0x9a60a983]
87 ICAAESendMessage + 161 (in ImageCapture) [0x9a61505a]
87 AESendMessage + 4302 (in AE) [0x9a11e1c6]
87 CFRunLoopRunInMode + 97 (in CoreFoundation) [0x99dad1f1]
87 CFRunLoopRunSpecific + 452 (in CoreFoundation) [0x99dad3c4]
87 __CFRunLoopRun + 2079 (in CoreFoundation) [0x99dae2df]
87 mach_msg_trap + 10 (in libSystem.B.dylib) [0x95a84afa]
Kernel stack:
87 ipc_mqueue_receive_continue + 0 [0x210d84]
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