Lightroom being weird
Discussion
I was wondering if anyone has noticed any recent weirdness with Lightroom imports?
TLDR: Why is Lightroom suddenly importing everything in a folder including the contents of subfolders?
My usual workflow is as follows:
Pick shots in camera that i wish to edit.
Download just those images to Photomechanic for captioning.
Import that folder into Lightroom for a quick edit.
Export to a folder within the above folder.
Rinse and repeat as often as required.
This works very well because when importing to Lightroom it will not show previous imports in that folder unless I ask it to. They will appear but are greyed out and only my new images are shown fully and only they are ticked so only new ones get imported. This saves a bit of time as I don't need to worry about duplicates confusing things.
At the weekend this import process went completely wrong and I can't work out if it's something I've done or whether Adobe have rolled out an update which has ruined everything.
Now if I already have images imported when I try to import a second batch it show everything that is there and I have to manually tick the ones I want to import rather than Lightroom identifying which are new and which are existing. The really odd thing is the old images it shows are the exported ones inside the export folder. It is basically importing everything in that folder including the content of any sub folders.
It then exports the new images to the correct sub folder and for the already imported images it creates a sub folder within the first sub folder. It will continue doing this for all subsequent imports so I end up with a nest of sub folders unless I manually choose which images to export.
I hope that was clear however reading it back the problem seems to boil down to the section in bold. Why is Lightroom suddenly importing everything in a folder including the contents of subfolders?
TLDR: Why is Lightroom suddenly importing everything in a folder including the contents of subfolders?
My usual workflow is as follows:
Pick shots in camera that i wish to edit.
Download just those images to Photomechanic for captioning.
Import that folder into Lightroom for a quick edit.
Export to a folder within the above folder.
Rinse and repeat as often as required.
This works very well because when importing to Lightroom it will not show previous imports in that folder unless I ask it to. They will appear but are greyed out and only my new images are shown fully and only they are ticked so only new ones get imported. This saves a bit of time as I don't need to worry about duplicates confusing things.
At the weekend this import process went completely wrong and I can't work out if it's something I've done or whether Adobe have rolled out an update which has ruined everything.
Now if I already have images imported when I try to import a second batch it show everything that is there and I have to manually tick the ones I want to import rather than Lightroom identifying which are new and which are existing. The really odd thing is the old images it shows are the exported ones inside the export folder. It is basically importing everything in that folder including the content of any sub folders.
It then exports the new images to the correct sub folder and for the already imported images it creates a sub folder within the first sub folder. It will continue doing this for all subsequent imports so I end up with a nest of sub folders unless I manually choose which images to export.
I hope that was clear however reading it back the problem seems to boil down to the section in bold. Why is Lightroom suddenly importing everything in a folder including the contents of subfolders?
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