Confused LR5 - Overwrite settings or import settings from disk.

hillwalkinggirl

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I have just upgraded from LR3 to LR5.3 and imported my catologue. On searching through metadata status I found several hundred of my files had conflicts. I selected all of these and chose Overwrite Setting. All appeared to be well. I've noticed however that as soon as I view any of these files they again appear as having conflicts or "changed on disk".

I now propose to do most of my developing in LR and only going into Elements 11 to fine tuning. (I will only use CS3 very occasionally if needed). What should I do with the 195 which have the status "conflict detected" and the 9578 which have the status "changed on disk"? Any advice would be very much appreciated.
 
Are you talking RAW files? Or exported tiff's / jpg's etc that remain in your LR catalogue (there's a choice) but that you've worked on outside LR since export?
 
It seems to be a mixture of both, but from checking the history it seems to be after I have updated them to 2012 process.
At present I have 308 DNG conflicting, 1466 up to date,
jpg - 5669 changed on disk, 4094 conflict detected, up to date 8574.
Any ideas how I can sort this out the easiest please.
 
hillwalkinggirl said:
I found several hundred of my files had conflicts. I selected all of these and chose Overwrite Setting.
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I believe that at least in the case of the jpg's 'overwrite' was the wrong choice and that you should've used 'import settings from disc'. By that means the actual files would've instructed the LR catalogue about their current condition.

Can you access any catalogue backups from before the upgrade (eg in a folder called '...Pictures\Lightroom Backups')?
 
I do have some old backups but I have done so much reorganising in LR5, labelling, keywording and rating that all seems to be in order now except for the "conflict message". I've tested quite a few using both settings and it doesn't seem to make any difference, so maybe I'll just ignore the conflict icon for now, and just update a few at a time when I need to reuse them. Thank you for your help droj.
 
If it's any consolation, I don't find the LR cataloguing functions at all intuitive and suspect that they are suited to those of a certain brain type ...? Statisticians and engineers, possibly? But the processing powers make it worthwhile ...
 
droj said:
If it's any consolation, I don't find the LR cataloguing functions at all intuitive and suspect that they are suited to those of a certain brain type ...? Statisticians and engineers, possibly? But the processing powers make it worthwhile ...
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I can't imagine how I lived without the system now. Maybe someone should start a topic about "How do you use lightroom for cataloging" and see if input from others helps folk? I reckon it would be a popular topic for the site and I'd be happy to give input. Just don't want to derail this fellas topic.
 
droj said:
If it's any consolation, I don't find the LR cataloguing functions at all intuitive and suspect that they are suited to those of a certain brain type ...? Statisticians and engineers, possibly? But the processing powers make it worthwhile ...
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As a retired scientist and computer tech I must admit I find its logic very strange or non existent. It's just driving me mad though because I need to know its innermost workings. Perhaps I'll just disasssemble my watch instead.:banghead::)
 
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