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1. Re: Syncing Lightroom between laptop and desktop
JW Stephenson Oct 25, 2010 11:19 AM (in response to SF Ellen)Ellen,
This is a long-standing bug that seems to get better but never completely go away. There is probably one or two images that LR "thinks" have been changed from somewhere outside of LR and when you select all images it is just telling you that at least one is in this state. Unfortunately there is no way I know of to sort or automatically isolate images with potential metadata conflicts except to browse the grid display looking for conflicting icons.
I usually select less than all (say 40 or 50 at a time) and keep saving until I isolate the image or images that is in question such that I save data to all the other images that are not in conflict first, then attack the error images one at at time. In all cases though, I end up overwriting the data since I trust the database of LR to have stored the most correct data. I just want to know what images were at risk so I can review them immediately after overwriting the data to make sure indeed they are alright. I generally use a temporary quick collection to isolate them.
The good news is I have never had a result that required me to go back in and re-develop an image. The bad news is I still am not comfortable hitting "overwrite" after selecting all images and just letting it rip. Hmmm ...
Jeff
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2. Re: Syncing Lightroom between laptop and desktop
SF Ellen Oct 25, 2010 11:33 AM (in response to JW Stephenson)Jeff,
I took your advice and it worked out--I went back through and save the images in small batched, until I hit upon the 'problem' batch. Turns out, one image had an exclamation point in it, and when I looked in the metadata, I saw 'conflict detected'. Fortunatly, this was not one of my finals, so I deleted it and all seems good now.
Thanks!
Ellen

