Roger S
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Post by Roger S on Feb 2, 2017 18:02:18 GMT
I've have PSE 15 (had 14, 13, 12 etc in years past). I had it setup so when my camera connects to my PC, it auto starts importing the photos to my PC under "my pictures", then opens the organizer. I've always had "my pictures" as a watch folder, just in case some files were added manually. This worked perfectly. Lately though, that has somehow changed. When I connect my camera, it does as before (auto imports and then opens organizer.). But now, once it opens the organizer, I get an addition popup that says it found "new" files in "My pictures" and shows all the files it just imported. If I click ok, it denies every one as" already exists", so I have to cancel that popup and can then continue as before.
In other words PSE sees the camera, imports the files, then sees them again in the watch folder and tries to import them again...
I know I can disable/remove my watch folder, but then anything I add to that folder without using the camera won't be seen.
As I've mentioned, it worked perfectly before, but now does a double take on all picures imported from the camera. I hope this makes sense and someone can help.
Thank folks, looking forward to getting this sorted out.
Cheers,
Roger
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Post by michelb on Feb 2, 2017 19:18:48 GMT
I've have PSE 15 (had 14, 13, 12 etc in years past). I had it setup so when my camera connects to my PC, it auto starts importing the photos to my PC under "my pictures", then opens the organizer. I've always had "my pictures" as a watch folder, just in case some files were added manually. This worked perfectly. Lately though, that has somehow changed. Roger Do you mean it has changed as soon as you installed PSE15? I have read an answer by an Adobe Elements team member that in PSE15, the watched folder service works as soon as Elements Organizer is open. If I understand well, the upload itself is not duplicated (the transfer from card or camera to the drive). That would create duplicate files with a -1 suffix. It's the indexing in the catalog which is invoked twice, which explains the error message. What happens if: - you plug in you camera after the organizer is running? - You set your card reader/camera preference for a delay before the import, or to show a message to allow you to start the download when you want? |
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Roger S
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Post by Roger S on Feb 3, 2017 3:34:15 GMT
It worked fine in the beginning with PSE15 installed. After reading your reply, I ran some tests and here's what I found...
BTW, this is on Windows 10
-Have always used a 5 second delay before auto import.
-auto Import with PSE closed...double import attempt.
-auto Import with PSE open...worked fine!
-Closed PSE and tried again...worked fine?!
-Rebooted, import with PSE closed, worked fine!!
So now I have no idea...it appears to be random?...
Still open to any ideas, but at this point, I'll just keep testing and hopefully figure this thing out...
Thanks
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Post by michelb on Feb 3, 2017 7:14:56 GMT
So now I have no idea...it appears to be random?... Still open to any ideas, but at this point, I'll just keep testing and hopefully figure this thing out... Thanks I would not be surprised if it's random. Starting the organizer and download takes time and starting the search for new files with the watched folder service may interfere together. It's a matter of timing. I can't help you more, because my choice is to avoid any automatic process or background task if possible. I absolutely want to decide when and how I download (I always have the organizer open first) and when to check for newly imported files. And for that, I don't need the watched folder service. I simply start a new import for the known location where new files may have been copied on the drive. The search is fast and nothing is imported if all files are already in the current catalog. |
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