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Yashima
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- Lightroom Version Number
- Classic 7.3
- Operating System
- Windows 10
Hi,
for the future I plan to just import to mobile and let Lightroom do its sync.
However, before finally figuring that out the other day, I created another (hopefully final) catalog mess from my last vacation (I am talking about ~1300 photos / ~700 after initial round of rejects)
What happened?
1. While traveling I imported photos to my ipad and from there to Lightroom Mobile
2. Instantly began sorting pics (flagging, rating and in some cases a bit of processing)
3. Get home, import pictures into Lightroom Classic (<-- that was mistake 1)
4. I see that I now have all the pictures twice but decide to deal with the issue later as it should be easy to figure out which images came from where (<-- mistake 2)
5. Keep sorting stuff on ipad because it's comfortable
6. Go back to classic for processing and realize there are duplicates and Lightroom (being too smart for me) has decided to make my pre-sorted (and sometimes processed) pictures into Virtual Copies of those I imported into classic and those I meant to throw out are now the "master" copy which when removed will take the Virtual Copy along with it.
(Possibly un-related? In the meantime I had finally started backing up my other originals by adding them to CC and I suspect that's what created the mess from my last vacation)
And finally here is my question...
Question:
a) can I make the virtual copies into the masters?
b) alternatively: can I "copy" all the work I did from the virtual copies to the masters in one go?
I only use virtual copies in rare cases when I want to test different kinds of processing on the same picture and I really really dislike having extras -.-
I am afraid the answer will be "copy every rating and processing manually to the master copy, then remove the virtual copy"
But maybe there's some kind of short-cut or trick I just don't know...
Thanks in advance for any tips that speed up fixing this...
Greetings
Yashima
Edit: just added missing words that I only ever notice after posting. sry.
for the future I plan to just import to mobile and let Lightroom do its sync.
However, before finally figuring that out the other day, I created another (hopefully final) catalog mess from my last vacation (I am talking about ~1300 photos / ~700 after initial round of rejects)
What happened?
1. While traveling I imported photos to my ipad and from there to Lightroom Mobile
2. Instantly began sorting pics (flagging, rating and in some cases a bit of processing)
3. Get home, import pictures into Lightroom Classic (<-- that was mistake 1)
4. I see that I now have all the pictures twice but decide to deal with the issue later as it should be easy to figure out which images came from where (<-- mistake 2)
5. Keep sorting stuff on ipad because it's comfortable
6. Go back to classic for processing and realize there are duplicates and Lightroom (being too smart for me) has decided to make my pre-sorted (and sometimes processed) pictures into Virtual Copies of those I imported into classic and those I meant to throw out are now the "master" copy which when removed will take the Virtual Copy along with it.
(Possibly un-related? In the meantime I had finally started backing up my other originals by adding them to CC and I suspect that's what created the mess from my last vacation)
And finally here is my question...
Question:
a) can I make the virtual copies into the masters?
b) alternatively: can I "copy" all the work I did from the virtual copies to the masters in one go?
I only use virtual copies in rare cases when I want to test different kinds of processing on the same picture and I really really dislike having extras -.-
I am afraid the answer will be "copy every rating and processing manually to the master copy, then remove the virtual copy"
But maybe there's some kind of short-cut or trick I just don't know...
Thanks in advance for any tips that speed up fixing this...
Greetings
Yashima
Edit: just added missing words that I only ever notice after posting. sry.