8 Replies Latest reply: Jul 24, 2010 2:26 PM by Lee Jay-ZyZk56 RSS

    LR3 import issues (vs LR2)

    imagex ideas Community Member

      I have two issues with the "improved" import procedure of LR3.  Can anyone point out my oversights or give me workarounds?

       

      1) I accumulate many days work on a memory card, downloading only the current day's shots at the end of the day.  In LR2 the import process gave me the dates represented on the card first, letting me uncheck all and check only "today" before downloading thumbnails for me to review.  In LR3 all thumbnails on the card are loaded before I can narrow down to the "today's" shots I want.  And then selecting for todays date is not a one check process.  On the average, this is a MUCH slower process for my workflow.

       

      2) I shoot RAW+jpg without flash, jpg only with flash.  When the RAW file exists I don't want to spend time weeding out the jpg from the import process (by downloading thumbnails and unchecking boxes).  In LR2 there is a setting which tells the import process to ignore jpgs paired with RAW files and they disappear automatically.  I can't find this in LR2.

       

      Any suggestions will be appreciated.

        • 1. Re: LR3 import issues (vs LR2)
          JG_Coleman Community Member

          I don't really shoot JPEG, so I can't really help with question #2.

           

          As far as Question #1, though, I would recommend reformatting your memory card before each day's shoot.  Just back up your files using the import dialog each day and then erase your memory card before your shoot the next day.  You'll never have problems finding "todays" photos ever again... cuz they'll be the only ones on the card.

           

          I mean... unless there is some real important reason that you have to leave multiple days on one card.  It's not really very practical to do if it's important to you to be able to access today's photos specifically.  It's like leaving a week worth of paperwork all over your desk and being surprised that you can't find today's stuff in the mess.

          • 2. Re: LR3 import issues (vs LR2)
            Pete Marshall Community Member

            Not sure if  I quite understand the first question on my cards the camera creates a new folder for each days shooting, so I can just select that particular days if I didn't want to import all. I don't know if all cameras do this so you may have a problem if it doesn't. I import all my files automatically to date ordered folders on one disk and then sort them rather than bothering sorting them in the import screen.

            The second question is the same in LR 3 as LR 2, in Preferences, general check or uncheck treat jpgs next to RAW files as separate files, according to how you wish to import them

            • 3. Re: LR3 import issues (vs LR2)
              JG_Coleman Community Member

              Most DSLRs offer saving to seperate folders according to date, but it's not enabled by default on some of them.  My Nikon D5000 will do this (I think), but by default it just saves them to the top-level of the card regardless of the capture date.

              • 4. Re: LR3 import issues (vs LR2)
                imagex ideas Community Member

                My workflow is what it is for 10+ years of personal use and what seem to me to be good reasons.  One persons sloppy desk is anothers comfort zone.  LR2 accomodated me, LR3 seems not to.

                • 5. Re: LR3 import issues (vs LR2)
                  imagex ideas Community Member

                  Perhaps I'm missing something but in LR 2 when I selected ignore jpgs they never appeared in the setup procedure.  In LR3 when I select treat jpgs next to RAWs as separate files, it sends (identical) thumbnails of both files to the selection screen requiring me to go through each one an uncheck the jpg since I don't want it imported.  This is very different, LR3 requiring much more thoughtless time.

                  • 6. Re: LR3 import issues (vs LR2)
                    DdeGannes Community Member

                    With respect to your 2nd question.

                     

                    Menu >Edit>preferences>generaltab>treat JPEG files next to raw files as seperate photos.

                     

                    make sure this is unchecked and only the raw files will be imported into LR.

                    • 7. Re: LR3 import issues (vs LR2)
                      imagex ideas Community Member

                      You are right that if the option to "Treat JPEG files next to RAW files as separate photos" is unchecked, the JPEGs will not be imported into a LR3 catalog as separate photos.  However, they arecopied to the hard drive as separate .jpg files and are treated as a sidecar files in the LR3 catalog.  One sign of this is the ".dng+JPEG" extension which shows in the catalog filename.  So with the box checked I must weed extra JPEGs out by unchecking their thumbnail in the Content area of the Import screen.  With the box unchecked I must delete the unwanted JPEG sidecar files after importing.  Either way is inconvenient compared with LR2 where I could edict that the JPEGs just be ignored altogether.

                       

                      To anticipate someone's suggestion that I stop the extra jpgs from being recorded by my cameras, there are enough occasions when having a camera-processed jpg as an immediate and temporary product is useful that I don't want to do that.  Still once I've begun importing in LR, the jpegs are superfluous.

                      • 8. Re: LR3 import issues (vs LR2)
                        Lee Jay-ZyZk56 Community Member

                        imagex ideas wrote:

                         

                         

                        1) I accumulate many days work on a memory card, downloading only the current day's shots at the end of the day.  In LR2 the import process gave me the dates represented on the card first, letting me uncheck all and check only "today" before downloading thumbnails for me to review.  In LR3 all thumbnails on the card are loaded before I can narrow down to the "today's" shots I want.

                         

                        Destination area - "by-date", uncheck those you don't want.  Yes, they're on the right instead of the left now.