On my trip to Florida I shot a prodigious number of frames, even by my
standards. I had nothing to do for a lot of that time apart from
practicing photographing cars drive past very fast.
Now that it is too late, I realize that I should not have deleted files
off of the hard drives of bad images until I was certain that everything
had been transferred to my home machine. Comparing the number of K-5
files in lightroom with the delta in the sequence numbers shows a
difference of about 140 frames.
I could just reformat my cards at this point and not worry about it.
Since I don't think I actually deleted as many as 140, I can't help but
wonder if maybe I just didn't copy over that one tremendous photo after
a particular shooting session.
Unfortunately, Lightroom's algorithm for checking if a file is already
in the catalog does not work very well once things have been moved
around. I cannot just put the SD cards in and trust that it will find
those missing files.
If, however, there were an easy way to go through a large number of
files in a large directory tree, on a mac, and detect any large
sequences of missing files (in the format of YYYYMMDD-LRCNNNNN.DNG (or
.AVI) that would tell me right off the bat which files might be missing,
and I could just look on the various cards for files in that sequence of
numbers.
Note that its the NNNNN that I'm interested in, I manually incremented
the first number from 3 to 4 when the four digit counter looped.
I doubt that I'm the first person to run into this issue, does anyone
know of a lightroom plugin or shell script that will do the trick?
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Larry Colen [email protected] (postbox on min4est)
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