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Last night as I improted several hundred images from a day of scanning Kodachrome transparencies into 160-180 mb uncompressed digital files, each with its own very specific file name, LR went from importing using the file name I had created to arbitrarily making the file names "untitled-(sequential number).tif". I have imported thousands of digital files from my scanning efforts to lightroom with no change or degradition of file names until this event.
What is more, when I look at the Orignal filename line in Metadata, all I see is the "untitled-(#)" and there is no "original Filename" so it was clearly improted using the "untitled (#)" file name.
Does anyone have any idea what might have happened and why?
I am running Windows 10 and LR, dtgailed system config info is below:
Lightroom version: CC 2015.9 [ 1106920 ]
License: Creative Cloud
Operating system: Windows 10
Version: 10.0
Application architecture: x64
System architecture: x64
Logical processor count: 4
Processor speed: 3.0 GHz
Built-in memory: 32710.1 MB
Real memory available to Lightroom: 32710.1 MB
Real memory used by Lightroom: 3399.8 MB (10.3%)
Virtual memory used by Lightroom: 3517.9 MB
GDI objects count: 911
USER objects count: 2781
Process handles count: 2205
Memory cache size: 6899.8MB / 7921.5MB (87.1%)
Maximum thread count used by Camera Raw: 4
Camera Raw SIMD optimization: SSE2,AVX,AVX2
Camera Raw virtual memory: 2246MB / 16355MB (13%)
System DPI setting: 144 DPI (high DPI mode)
Desktop composition enabled: Yes
Displays: 1) 3840x2160, 2) 3840x2160, 3) 1920x1080
Input types: Multitouch: No, Integrated touch: No, Integrated pen: No, External touch: No, External pen: No, Keyboard: No
Graphics Processor Info:
GeForce GTX 1060 6GB/PCIe/SSE2
Check OpenGL support: Passed
Vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
Version: 3.3.0 NVIDIA 376.53
Renderer: GeForce GTX 1060 6GB/PCIe/SSE2
LanguageVersion: 3.30 NVIDIA via Cg compiler
Application folder: C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Lightroom
Library Path: C:\Users\Tom\Pictures\Lightroom\Lightroom Catalog.lrcat
Settings Folder: C:\Users\Tom\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Lightroom
Installed Plugins:
1) AdobeStock
2) Canon Tether Plugin
3) Facebook
4) Flickr
5) Leica Tether Plugin
6) Nikon Tether Plugin
7) Perfect B&&W 9
8) Perfect Effects 9
9) Perfect Enhance 9
10) Perfect Photo Suite 9
11) Perfect Portrait 9
12) Perfect Resize 9
Config.lua flags: None
Adapter #1: Vendor : 10de
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Sure. You accidentally ticked the "Rename Files" box on the input screen.
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I wqish it were that simple but the "Rename Files" function is not available when you select the "Add" function during Import. I shouold have mentioned that I first scan the files into windows explorer and then improt them to LR. So, that's not the explanations. Thanks, though....
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Perhaps you selected "Copy" accidentally? According to Lightroom, are the photos in the same folder that they were in before import?
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What do you mean by "I first SCAN the files"?
Please post a screen shot of the Windows file manager window showing the names before import into LR and then after importing.
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They are in the same folders after Import as they were prior and I know that I did not use the copy function during Import. Since the files names were changed by LR during the Import process, it is not possible to now show you the file names prior tgo Import.
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Intermodalist wrote
They are in the same folders after Import as they were prior
According to Lightroom, or according to your operating system? I want to know where Lightroom thinks they are located.
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OK how about copying some other images, shot with your camera or scanned on your scanner, to your hard drive and then importing them. You could then take a screen shot of them before the import and after the import. In fact you could leave the Windows file manager window open to watch what happens.
Also check in the import dialog that you have no Import Preset set near the bottom of the screen.