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I have created a bit of a muddle in my Lightroom catalog due to mobile sync. I have all of the files on my hard drive so there is no risk of losing pictures (and I have backups), I just need help figuring out the best way to straighten things out.
The summary of the problem:
1. Mobile sync is auto-enabled for my phone. There are 243 pictures in that folder in my Lightroom catalog.
2. I store my picture files in a dated-folder system and the data files for the 243 mobile pictures are all in that dated-folder system on my hard drive (I manually copied over the pictures from my phone to the computer hard drive).
3. When I went to import the dated-folder that I want to work on, it would not import the pictures taken with my phone as they are seen as suspected duplicates in the catalog. I poked around and that is when I realized that they are in my catalog because of the auto-enabled mobile sync from my phone.
What I want to do:
1. I want the pictures from my phone to be a part of the catalog for the dated folder. I tried to move the pictures from the folder created from the mobile sync but it warned me that it would move the file on the disk and as the file already exists on the disk, that isn't what I really want to do.
The only thing I can think to do, is to delete from LR the auto-imported mobile sync pictures and then import from my dated folder on the hard drive. But maybe there is a better way?
Appreciate the assistance.
Win
The summary of the problem:
1. Mobile sync is auto-enabled for my phone. There are 243 pictures in that folder in my Lightroom catalog.
2. I store my picture files in a dated-folder system and the data files for the 243 mobile pictures are all in that dated-folder system on my hard drive (I manually copied over the pictures from my phone to the computer hard drive).
3. When I went to import the dated-folder that I want to work on, it would not import the pictures taken with my phone as they are seen as suspected duplicates in the catalog. I poked around and that is when I realized that they are in my catalog because of the auto-enabled mobile sync from my phone.
What I want to do:
1. I want the pictures from my phone to be a part of the catalog for the dated folder. I tried to move the pictures from the folder created from the mobile sync but it warned me that it would move the file on the disk and as the file already exists on the disk, that isn't what I really want to do.
The only thing I can think to do, is to delete from LR the auto-imported mobile sync pictures and then import from my dated folder on the hard drive. But maybe there is a better way?
Appreciate the assistance.
Win