LR5 Won't Import new photos
Oct 30, 2014 00:18:48 #
Inserted card into reader, plugged into MacBook Pro and went to "File" in LR5 and "Import Photo" option is ghosted out, not allowing me to import new batch of photos for cataloging and editing. Any one had this problem, and if so, what's solution?
Thanks.
Thanks.
Oct 30, 2014 00:26:47 #
BigDJim wrote:
Inserted card into reader, plugged into MacBook Pro and went to "File" in LR5 and "Import Photo" option is ghosted out, not allowing me to import new batch of photos for cataloging and editing. Any one had this problem, and if so, what's solution?
Thanks.
Thanks.
is the reader being recognized by computer?
Oct 30, 2014 01:29:47 #
mwsilvers
Loc: Central New Jersey
dirtpusher wrote:
is the reader being recognized by computer?
Shouldn't be the reason because the presence of a card reader is not necessary. Import doesn't know where you are importing from until you tell it. You could be importing from your hard driver.
Oct 30, 2014 01:56:24 #
mwsilvers wrote:
Shouldn't be the reason because the presence of a card reader is not necessary. Import doesn't know where you are importing from until you tell it. You could be importing from your hard driver.
what i should had said but ment. does computer recognized card in reader.
when he goes to source and click that driver. as the source. but doesn't see card it will be grayed out.
Oct 30, 2014 02:10:27 #
mwsilvers
Loc: Central New Jersey
dirtpusher wrote:
what i should had said but ment. does computer recognized card in reader.
when he goes to source and click that driver. as the source. but doesn't see card it will be grayed out.
when he goes to source and click that driver. as the source. but doesn't see card it will be grayed out.
I think he said he used the menus and clicked on File, but Import was greyed out. That just shouldn't happen regardless of the card or reader.
Oct 30, 2014 02:41:07 #
mwsilvers wrote:
I think he said he used the menus and clicked on File, but Import was greyed out. That just shouldn't happen regardless of the card or reader.
it could if he had designated the card reader as the source. and no pictures available from the reader. you do have to choose the source.
Oct 30, 2014 11:45:51 #
When card reader is plugged into computer, red light comes on, then blue light showing card is being read. Then when going to Import function in LR, that's when I encountered ghosting. However, now that function seem to be working OK after shutting everything down, but after previewing shots in Lightroom and I hit "insert", the indicator bar at the top left hand page in Library function goes about half-way across and then freezes. Have started all over from scratch two or three times, and same thing happens. Frozen at halfway. I'm puzzled. Thinking maybe I should not be importing direct to LR but use another method, then transfer into LR???????
Oct 30, 2014 12:32:35 #
BigDJim wrote:
When card reader is plugged into computer, red lig... (show quote)
did you go to computer and manually look at pictures.
or try drag drop pictures into folder. then see if it still ghost out. then try load pictures into lr through folder.
Oct 30, 2014 14:30:02 #
Hi BigDJim, From your problem description I think that there are two possible issues. 1) Your card reader is flaking out. My experience is that they last only three or four years before the electronics croak, sometimes less. 2) You have one or more corrupted images on the card or the card itself may be failing.
Follow dirtpusher's suggestions or put the card back in the camera and scroll through the pics, look for images that only half display or have a rainbow pattern, delete them and try again.
Follow dirtpusher's suggestions or put the card back in the camera and scroll through the pics, look for images that only half display or have a rainbow pattern, delete them and try again.
Oct 30, 2014 16:17:17 #
scsdesphotography wrote:
Hi BigDJim, From your problem description I think ... (show quote)
Or a flaky cable or connector. There are 4 - the computer, the computer end of the cable, the card reader and the card reader end of the cable.
Oct 31, 2014 07:11:57 #
Copfer
Loc: Gillette, Wyoming
Are you in Library mode? This has caught me off guard. LR won't import if in Develop mode.
Oct 31, 2014 09:45:37 #
mwsilvers
Loc: Central New Jersey
Copfer wrote:
Are you in Library mode? This has caught me off guard. LR won't import if in Develop mode.
I thought of that and tried it. I was able to bring up the import screen from the menu option in both the Develop and Print modules.
Oct 31, 2014 10:26:36 #
This has happened to me a couple of times and both times I found myself mid way in an operation such as having some tool open but not finished. Once I finished using the tool I could import again. (sometimes I get ahead of myself) :roll:
Oct 31, 2014 11:13:00 #
Gene51 wrote:
Or a flaky cable or connector. There are 4 - the computer, the computer end of the cable, the card reader and the card reader end of the cable.
Try the direct cable( not the card reader) to prove if nothing else the card is ok. I have a card reader since my camera takes both, but found the cable much less of a hassle.
Oct 31, 2014 12:37:44 #
big-guy wrote:
This has happened to me a couple of times and both times I found myself mid way in an operation such as having some tool open but not finished. Once I finished using the tool I could import again. (sometimes I get ahead of myself) :roll:
i'll try to remember that... thanks :thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup:
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