- Joined
- Dec 31, 2019
- Messages
- 33
- Lightroom Version Number
- Lightroom Classic version: 10.3 [ 202105281559-8dc50eb4 ]
- Operating System
- macOS 11 Big Sur
Although I am primarily a Nikon shooter, I often use my iPhone XR (iOS 14.6) when on-the-go. In several instances over the past month, however, Lightroom has lost the imported HEIC photos. Roughly speaking:
/Users/dfk/Personal/Photos/Lightroom/2021/2021-05-16/2021-05-16-89099.HEIC
It appears that the Missing photos are those posted to SmugMug... so perhaps it is the SmugMug plugin that caused the data loss?
To make matters worse, I cannot recover the HEIC photos because they are not in Trash, never made it to any backup disk, and have been fully deleted from the iPhone; I use Image Capture to delete photos from iPhone after import to LR, and it actually deletes photos (does not move them to Recently Deleted).
So I downloaded the jpgs from SmugMug and dropped them into the folder. In LR I clicked the "!" to let me find the missing photo, and selected the jpg. After overriding LR's warning that the filename was different, LR was happy: the missing photos were found. All looked good. I quit LR and restarted it. The photos were marked again as Missing... and the jpg files were gone!! LR appears to have deleted them. Bizarre.
Anyone else seen this kind of problem? I'm not sure whether it is a bug in the LR-iPhone import process, in the LR library management system, or in the SmugMug publisher, or some combination of them.
dave
- use LR to import directly from iPhone connected by USB,
- mark some photos to be rejected,
- delete (from disk) all rejected photos,
- add keywords and captions to remaining photos,
- mark some photos as Flagged,
- develop Flagged photos (crops and minor exposure adjustments),
- create a new collection under SmugMug publisher (v3.2.2.0),
- publish to SmugMug,
- quit Lightroom.
/Users/dfk/Personal/Photos/Lightroom/2021/2021-05-16/2021-05-16-89099.HEIC
It appears that the Missing photos are those posted to SmugMug... so perhaps it is the SmugMug plugin that caused the data loss?
To make matters worse, I cannot recover the HEIC photos because they are not in Trash, never made it to any backup disk, and have been fully deleted from the iPhone; I use Image Capture to delete photos from iPhone after import to LR, and it actually deletes photos (does not move them to Recently Deleted).
So I downloaded the jpgs from SmugMug and dropped them into the folder. In LR I clicked the "!" to let me find the missing photo, and selected the jpg. After overriding LR's warning that the filename was different, LR was happy: the missing photos were found. All looked good. I quit LR and restarted it. The photos were marked again as Missing... and the jpg files were gone!! LR appears to have deleted them. Bizarre.
Anyone else seen this kind of problem? I'm not sure whether it is a bug in the LR-iPhone import process, in the LR library management system, or in the SmugMug publisher, or some combination of them.
dave