Lightoom Does not import correctly

[woodda]

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Hope people do not mind the non Leica post but I am trying to import M8 pictures from the SD to my catalgue. I find that Lighhroom cannot import the pictures eventhough I can copy them to the folder manually in Explorer. Anybody know the problem

 

Cheers

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[erlingmm]

Hope people do not mind the non Leica post but I am trying to import M8 pictures from the SD to my catalgue. I find that Lighhroom cannot import the pictures eventhough I can copy them to the folder manually in Explorer. Anybody know the problem

 

Cheers

Can you be a bit more specific:

- I assume you are on a PC since you are using Explorer?

- Do you see the SD card in "My Computer"

- Does LR "see" the SD Card?

- Can you choose a folder to import to?

- What kind of Card are you using, and what kind of card reader?

- Can you describe the situation where the process stops?

[woodda]

Thanks for the reply. Please see below

 

assume you are on a PC since you are using Explorer? - Yes

- Do you see the SD card in "My Computer" Yes

- Does LR "see" the SD Card? Yes

- Can you choose a folder to import to? Yes

- What kind of Card are you using, and what kind of card reader? Sandisk 2GB

- Can you describe the situation where the process stops? Goes through import but simplky does not import anything. I select both copy and move and deselect ignote duplicates. I also go to disk proporites and make sure no read only is there. Further more I copy manually to desktop and then move to hard drive for media and that works

 

Thanks in advance

[woodda]

Tried it no luck. PS I am running LR as administrator under Vista

[erlingmm]

Trying to circle in closer:

- Does the status bar in the upper left corner of LR show progress while you import?

- I assume no thumbnails show up in LR?

- Do you have DNG and/or JPEG files on the card? (There is a setting that only imports DNGs, are you sure this is not set?)

- If you copy to folder manually, have you tried import from that folder?

[woodda]

Does the status bar in the upper left corner of LR show progress while you import? Yes

- I assume no thumbnails show up in LR? No

- Do you have DNG and/or JPEG files on the card? (There is a setting that only imports DNGs, are you sure this is not set?) DNG

- If you copy to folder manually, have you tried import from that folder? Yes works oK only problems direct from card

[erlingmm]

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I am not sure I can help you on this. One last question: Is the folder you import to empty after the status bar in LR says it is finished, or are the images there as files but nothing shows up in LR?

[woodda]

No the fiules on still on drive

[erlingmm]

I am sorry, I hope others can help. I run LR on XP and Mac, not Vista yet. Last check:

There is a setting in preferences under File Management: When a memory card is detected: Show import dialog/Do Nothing. If this is set to Show.. and inserting the card triggers LR and shows the files, then LR should detect it correctly, otherwise it could be a Vista/Card reader driver problem, but I am not an expert on this.

(LR works fine on both my PC/XT and Mac)