Shutterfly exporter grayed out
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It is not the method that is nonsense, it is that people don't understand the system. Yes, you can override this but that causes other problems, not recommended. Lightroom is designed to import the photos once. It's incredibly simple, just select all the photos, drag and drop into the collection. You can add multiple files back to your collection this way. The photos are still in Lightroom! All you have to do is click on All Photographs, find the desired photos in Lightroom, and add them to the collection again. Importing is not the solution, if you have only removed the photos (accidentally) from the collection. BUT, in my opinion, this whole "method" is nonsense if I choose to import files I want to be able to access ALL of my photos, regardless of whether or not I've previously imported them or not. So, for me I found a way, and I hope that helps someone out there. The only issue I had was that sometimes the drag'n'drop didn't "work/stick" so I had to keep trying several times on just one photo! I tried to drag'n'drop multiple files but that didn't work I then drag and dropped the photos I wanted to add to the Collection I created. I clicked on Past Month and found the original batch of photos shown there. So, I found a solution for me: In the Collections panel, under Smart Collections, there's a set of options/filters - named something like: Colored Red, Five Stars, Past Month, Recently Modified, and so on. Boom! the ones I want are all greyed out and no measure of checking/unchecking of settings could change that. I then figure all I have to do is Import those photos back into the collection. I later noticed that some photos, which I didn't want removed, had also been removed from the collection (probably didn't realised I had multiple selected or something). Then, I went through and removed some photos (rejects and such) from that collection. In my scenario, I imported all photos into a new collection, fine. None of the above solutions worked for me but then it looks like there isn't one solution for all. There will be no more older instances of the file. After removing it from the catalog, the conflicting images can now be re-imported. You can sorted the files by View > Sort >Added Order, to make it easier to locate. Remove the conflicting images in Catalog > All Import. If you cannot move the source files and create the original folder structure. Now you can find the old edits still embedded on them in the Catalog > Previous Import.ģ. To regain the old edits : Create the same physical folder structure in the explorer, as it was when files were imported to LR, And move/rename back the source files to their original locations. Ticking off the "Don't Import Suspected Duplicates" in the File Handling option (works for few projects)Ģ. Unless, the files are removed from the disk, there are still three workarounds.ġ.
Shutterfly exporter grayed out windows#
Generally, after importing to LR, if the source files are moved in the Windows Explorer - The reference to those files are corrupted. Now you have two copies of the image somewhere in your Lightroom library, one with whatever edits and metadata you applied previously, and the newly imported version which have no edits or previously applied metadata. Repeatedly importing files is likely not the answer once should be enough AFAICT. So I would advise first checking for any LR filters, or other selective viewing that might be currently stopping you from seeing these if they are within LR. I believe that the "don't import suspected duplicates" option - which is turned on by default - will also reject images that appear to be mere extra renames of the same original camera file - due to showing the same original capture file name in the EXIF metadata.īut in order for "don't import suspected duplicates" to activate, there have to be images present which these new ones would be duplicates of. Also if you change the selector at the top of the Import dialog grid from "all photos" to "new photos", if the thumbnail grid then becomes empty, that is your explanation. You are certain that your Catalog does not already include them? On my PC, when I hover over one of these greyed-out images, I get a tooltip which (among other things) explains that "this photo has already been imported". Usually one sees this, when LR believes the images are already imported.