2019-11-03, 17:29
Hi Gunther,
I'm not sure if this is a real bug - I think this is the intended behavior, but it makes no (real) sense to me.
If you choose to skip existing files while exporting, Lightroom still exports those files to a temp folder on my system drive (Windows) even if they already exist in the destination.
There are several problems with this behavior (in my case):
* my system drive gets very full, it's not very big and my timelapse files are located on a separate SSD or my NAS
* exporting takes as long as exporting the whole sequence with overwrite (but skip should be faster!)
* the existing files remain in the temp folder and won't get deleted - my system drive is now full and I had to delete it manually
After thinking about it, I thought you are doing this because you want to check if the same file really exists, not only an empty file with the same name. Therefore you export the file again, check the file size or checksum and then copy it to the final destination (or not).
But if I select "skip" in the export dialog, I would like to skip exporting these existing files at all. I think it's fair to assume, that existing files with the same filename were successfully exported before.
Exporting should take less time and no power is wasted, no space on the system drive is wasted.
What's your opinion on this? Is this a bug or is this intended?
thanks,
Matthias
PS: Using LRT Export 5.3.1.599 with the latest LR version available from Adobe on Windows 10.
I'm not sure if this is a real bug - I think this is the intended behavior, but it makes no (real) sense to me.
If you choose to skip existing files while exporting, Lightroom still exports those files to a temp folder on my system drive (Windows) even if they already exist in the destination.
There are several problems with this behavior (in my case):
* my system drive gets very full, it's not very big and my timelapse files are located on a separate SSD or my NAS
* exporting takes as long as exporting the whole sequence with overwrite (but skip should be faster!)
* the existing files remain in the temp folder and won't get deleted - my system drive is now full and I had to delete it manually
After thinking about it, I thought you are doing this because you want to check if the same file really exists, not only an empty file with the same name. Therefore you export the file again, check the file size or checksum and then copy it to the final destination (or not).
But if I select "skip" in the export dialog, I would like to skip exporting these existing files at all. I think it's fair to assume, that existing files with the same filename were successfully exported before.
Exporting should take less time and no power is wasted, no space on the system drive is wasted.
What's your opinion on this? Is this a bug or is this intended?
thanks,
Matthias
PS: Using LRT Export 5.3.1.599 with the latest LR version available from Adobe on Windows 10.