For a long time I have relied on checking "Don't import selected duplicates" to do just that, I can be lazy (or, as I prefer to put it, prudent) in not deleting files from my card in my camera before taking more pictures if I do not have to, or if I forget to clear the card first, and then I just rely on using this option only to import the new files when I hook up my camera to my computer.
That is, until Lightroom 6. This worked faultlessly under Lightroom 5 and earlier, with never a problem, literally hundreds of times. Today, I used exactly the same workflow as previously, but Lightroom 6 (standalone, not CC version) refused to recognise the old previously imported files on my card which were already on my hard drive and catalogued as duplicates.
I did not have time to sort out the new from the old in the import dialogue box, so imported all the files on my camera card into the location required for the genuinely new files, then sorted by date and moved the obvious duplicates into another folder, which I called "suspected duplicates" (imagination and creativity in my folder naming were never my strong points...). As an experiment, and having double checked that the files in the suspected duplicates folder really were duplicates of files already on my hard drive and in the catalogue from a previous import, I removed all the files in the suspected duplicates folder from the catalogue (I did not delete the files though). I then synchronised the folder tree which contained the suspected duplicates folder, and again all of the files in the suspected duplicates folder showed up as new imports, and were not caught by the "Don't import suspected duplicates" filter. I then removed them from the catalogue a second time, and then used the import dialogue to point to the suspected duplicates folder - same result, not recognised as duplicates.
Looks like this simply does not work properly in Lightroom 6. Anyone else encountered this? From now on, I will try to remember to clear my cards once the photos have been downloaded from them, before I shoot anything else.
Graham
That is, until Lightroom 6. This worked faultlessly under Lightroom 5 and earlier, with never a problem, literally hundreds of times. Today, I used exactly the same workflow as previously, but Lightroom 6 (standalone, not CC version) refused to recognise the old previously imported files on my card which were already on my hard drive and catalogued as duplicates.
I did not have time to sort out the new from the old in the import dialogue box, so imported all the files on my camera card into the location required for the genuinely new files, then sorted by date and moved the obvious duplicates into another folder, which I called "suspected duplicates" (imagination and creativity in my folder naming were never my strong points...). As an experiment, and having double checked that the files in the suspected duplicates folder really were duplicates of files already on my hard drive and in the catalogue from a previous import, I removed all the files in the suspected duplicates folder from the catalogue (I did not delete the files though). I then synchronised the folder tree which contained the suspected duplicates folder, and again all of the files in the suspected duplicates folder showed up as new imports, and were not caught by the "Don't import suspected duplicates" filter. I then removed them from the catalogue a second time, and then used the import dialogue to point to the suspected duplicates folder - same result, not recognised as duplicates.
Looks like this simply does not work properly in Lightroom 6. Anyone else encountered this? From now on, I will try to remember to clear my cards once the photos have been downloaded from them, before I shoot anything else.
Graham
