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When Lightroom CC 2015.9 came out, I was very happy to note that the importer respected the file order when renaming files during import. But all too sadly, this didn't last long: yesterday I updated macOS Sierra to its latest version 10.12.4 and now Lightroom messes up the file order again. In the import window I sort the files on Capture Time and the renamed files should have a sequence number according to Capture Time. As said, this worked before yesterday in LR CC 2015.9 but not anymore. After the macOS update I already deleted Lightroom, restarted the computer and re-installed Lightroom, to no avail.
Is there a way to have the importer respect the given sort order again when renaming?
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Hi addieleman,
You may try and reset Lightroom preferences and check if that helps.
Preference file and other file locations | Lightroom CC and 6
Thanks,
Mohit
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After resetting the preferences on starting up Lightroom (by holding Option+Shift while clicking the app's shortcut) the importer now works as expected. Thanks!
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Great, your welcome.
Thanks,
Mohit
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I'm sorry to say that the issue reappeared once again, Lightroom messes up the file order during import, and this time resetting the preferences on startup of Lightroom didn't help. Do you have any other suggestions? Thanks, Ad.
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Can you please share the screenshot of the problem.
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Mohit
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Hi,
Thanks for a quick response. I didn't make screenshots of the problematic import, for now I can't reproduce the problem. I'll make screenshots during future imports and send them to you as soon as the problem re-occurs.
Best regards,
Ad Dieleman.
Mohit Goyal<mailto:forums_noreply@adobe.com>
10 april 2017 04:16
Lightroom importer's renaming messes up file order
created by Mohit Goyal<https://forums.adobe.com/people/Mohit+Goyal> in Photoshop Lightroom - View the full discussion<https://forums.adobe.com/message/9444622#9444622>
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Well, sooner than I expected the problem reappeared. The photos are of a time lapse series with an interval of 1 second (or more when the camera's buffer filled up).
Import screen:
Library after import:
You'll see that the first 6 files are not in the right order.
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The sort order of the Import dialog is used only for viewing the images in the grid.
The actual order of the import is not publicly defined by Adobe.
If you are using the "import sequence number" in your renaming template, this is where you are going wrong.
For something like this, you probably want to use the "original camera file number", not the import sequence number.
I rename my files as "yyyymmdd_hhmmss_nnnn" based on the EXIF data for the creation date, creation time, and the original file number.
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ManiacJoe a écrit
is not publicly defined by Adobe.
That is so convenient...
Thank you Adobe, you just made me loose 3 hours of work.