rob211
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- Walnut Creek, CA USA
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- Lightroom Version Number
- 9.2
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- macOS 10.15 Catalina
I have a WD My Passport Pro drive. I was using it as a networked drive recently; basically it has a build in router and the drive mounts on my system (macOS) just like any shared network drive. I had added some keywords, etc to the raw images and therefore had the raws+sidecars on that drive. All normal.
When I pointed Classic to the WD and imported via "Copy" I noticed it apparently ignored the sidecars when it did so; none of the added metadata was present in Lr. The images were file on the network drive, and after copying to my boot drive and importing via an "Add" Lr saw the sidecars and added the metadata per usual.
So, does Classic ignore sidecars upon importing from certain media? yes, I can surely get the images to a local drive easily enough, but for purposes of future workflow, and to prevent me from trying to find out if something was wrong, I'd like to know if it's just a feature.
When I pointed Classic to the WD and imported via "Copy" I noticed it apparently ignored the sidecars when it did so; none of the added metadata was present in Lr. The images were file on the network drive, and after copying to my boot drive and importing via an "Add" Lr saw the sidecars and added the metadata per usual.
So, does Classic ignore sidecars upon importing from certain media? yes, I can surely get the images to a local drive easily enough, but for purposes of future workflow, and to prevent me from trying to find out if something was wrong, I'd like to know if it's just a feature.