This morning, against my usual practice, I downloaded the latest LR (14.4) shortly after it was released. And it took me about 15 minutes to find a major bug. When I ran a stack in Zerene and did both a DMap and a PMax, only one would sync / import back into LR, no matter what I did, even though it showed two new files. This was after getting up way too early to go shoot a cactus and I was frayed, but between discussions with the Zerene developer and the Adobe Forum, it turns out Adobe has dropped the criteria of unique filenames to distinguish files and goes only by the time stamp and file size. Well, Zerene stamps two files from the same session identically except for the filename. It’s now been kicked upstairs and I’ll use the workaround I figured out: When LR says there are no files to sync just uncheck “Don’t import suspected duplicates”.
Thanks for this and the workaround, Diane. I think I’ve run across this in other circumstances and it can be very frustrating.
I thought it felt familiar, too. Too tired to even wonder why.
Hmmm, that might be what was happening with ON-1 No Noise the other day. Couldn’t find my files easily and then they showed up. Very weird. And a pain in the neck with stackers since it’s just so many more files. Thanks for pointing this out and the work around. Hope they get it solved.
Diane:
Did you ever resolve the my room 14.4 issue. I have been afraid to upgrade since I read your note. Did you finally get it to work the way needed.?
thanks for your help
David Schoen
The issue can’t be resolved until the next upgrade, but hopefully it will be then. In the meantime, it’s only a problem (as far as I know) when importing 2+ results from Zerene Stacker. In the import dialog just check to show the files and when it shows only 1 (and you know there are more), on the right uncheck Don’t import suspected duplicates and they will all pop right up and things work fine from there on.