Why does lightroom 3.3 delete files it 'fails' to move? and why does it fail?
I'm in the process of moving a bunch of images around between machines, so from a remote machine I copied 10gb or so of .cr2, .jpg and .thm files into a temporary holding location on a local sata drive. I then started an import on the machine from the temporary holding location to the location I wanted the files at (which is a drive different than the temporary location). Lightroom trundled along for quite a while. Then reported to me that it had failed to move some files (The list was ALL the files).
I went to look at the temporary holding location on the boot drive and all the files were gone. I looked at the location I tried to import them to, and they were in fact there. HOWEVER they were not added to the catalog in lightroom!
Greetings..
I'm not sure what you mean by "force LR to import..."
It all depends on your work flow, and how you use LR, not any forcing. For example, I use keywords and collections. I organize my photos in the _folders_ by the method I mentioned. Then use collections to make up my groupings and sorted images. As for importing, every photograph taken has at least the date taken in it, and LR import options have a lot of different ways to use that date to import them. I selected one that works for me, and then just have to select the MajorProject as the toplevel folder on the import destination. LR creates all of the underlying folders.
I then use the Move option, and LR will move all of my images from the source directory into the destination. Note: This will not work from a portable drive, due to LR not being allowed to delete images from portable disks. You'd have to use Copy, and delete the originals after you've seen them in their new home.
Just out of curiosity, is there any reason you renamed your files, or was that a byproduct of how you did it? I try not to rename my images, if possible. I know that having multiple images with the same name causes some problems with a few export modules (I updated one, and had to recreate my export collection. It took the first file by that name it found, which, of course, turned out not to be the correct image).
The key here of course, is to keyword your images. I now have several ways to search for images; those taken by date, by project, and of course by keywords.
Cheers!
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