I installed Lightroom 4.4 recently. I have been using 2.x for years.
I exported a number of jpg files into a JPG subfolder. These jpgs were generated from cr2 files. The "add to catalog" option was selected. My problem is that not only the exported files/pictures were not added to the catalog but that I cannot add them manually (by syncing the upper-level folder).
Random files are being corrupted in my library. Sometimes the preview image is corrupted sometimes not. But upon export images are being corrupted as well so I cannot export certain images anymore for anything because they get corrupted everytime.
I have installed the updates etc I keep my main librarys on a external drive. Im on a fairly new imac.
I recently began using lightroom and stored the files on the local drive of my macbook pro (current os) until I ran out of space. Exported the catalogue to an external HD, then deleted the files from the local drive. As I tried to import the .lrcat file associated with the export to the external HD and received this error:
"Can not import from this catalog at this time. The catalog is either in use by another copy of Lightroom or was closed improperly. If it was closed improperly, please consider doing an integrity check when opening."
I am not running LR on any other computers so I figure Lightroom was "closed improperly".
Is there any way to prevent Illustrator from adding numbers to the end of exported files? It's really annoying because I end up with a bunch of extra files and only need the single exported version that I overwrite when making changes to the AI file. It's also annoying when I have an exported file linked in a Premiere or Indesign file. I was last using CS3 wich didn't have this 'feature.'
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My biggest problem is another one, and it is really annoying + frustrating:
After having processed all pictures I export them to JPG, for that I select the picutures and the through the export item in the menue (the usual way).
- LR starts processing
- LR shows progress bar
- LR finishes BUT out of let's say 100 pictures (as an example) I get always get less pictures exported, sometimes only 20% exported, somtetimes 50% etc. (at ramdom, I cannot see any rule here). If I then do the "export as previous" and skip already available picutes I get the same issue.
Since LR 5.3 the issue is really bad, as for appr. 100 pictures I need 10- 15 runs until they alre all processed.
Sometimes it works to close LR and reopen it, then the number of picutres increases ==> looks a bit like a memory issues. But hey, I do NOT get ANY message that picutures have not been exported or allike. System finishes "a normal" just when checking the result I see that I miss photos. Also: missing photos are at ramdom out of the selection (not all at end or all in the beginning).
My system is a Intel I7 Windows 7 (32bit) German version, with LR 5.3 in German installed, I am using a 250GB SSD for the operating system and the programms + a 1 TB HD for the pictures and LR catalogs.
I accidentally deleted a collection I was working on from lightroom 4 and the files were NOT backed up. All of the photos were edited and had my watermark on them. I exported all pictures into an album on my computer. I thought I could import them back in and lightroom would recognize the history and I would be able to remove my watermark. I need to create a disc for a customer and I NEED to get the watermark off. Is there a way to some-how retrieve the deleted collection from lightroom, or remove the watermark from the re-imported pictures?
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I maybe imaginging things, but it only seems to be with certain photos (most noticably high ISO astrophotography images). I went through old astro shots this week from over a year ago and thats when i noticed the problem. The expoted files are massively brighter than in Lightroom I am at a loss as to what to do. The display profile on my mac is set to the latest monitor calibration. I havent changed anything in LR but i did get rif of a load of crap on my computer this week as it was becoming slow after updating to OS 9 (mackeeper, dropboxes but nothing i could imagine would relate to LR).
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How can I fix this since I do share a lot of my work on Facebook as well.
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