Adobe Lightroom Import Compatibility Work-Around for Windows Vista
12 March 2007This last weekend I installed Adobe Lightroom on my Windows Vista PC. For the past few months I had been beta testing Lightroom on my Apple G4 PowerBook and decided I would run the full version on my much more powerful PC.
After hooking up my Canon Digital Rebel XT 350D digital camera, I immediately noticed that Adobe Lightroom would fail every attempt at importing the images. I attempted this again from multiple sources, which included manually copying the files off the camera to a folder on my hard drive.
After a bit of research it seems that Windows Vista does not take kindly to forward slashed in the file pathing Lightroom uses by default. For example, when selecting to import pictures from yesterday Lightroom would list the library path the files would be saved to as “2007/03-11/“. By double clicking on this path (to modify it) and changing the forward slashes to back slashes (i.e.: “2007\03-11\“), Adobe Lightroom was able to import the images without issue.
This might not solve everyone’s issue but it did solve mine!
Cheers!
4 Responses to “Adobe Lightroom Import Compatibility Work-Around for Windows Vista”
March 21st, 2007 at 5:27 pm
Wow thanks that solved my problem.
April 29th, 2007 at 6:41 am
Wow, that’s amazing. It worked for me as well !!! :PPPPPP
We’re getting there with Windows VISTA compatibility!
May 7th, 2007 at 2:26 pm
Also worked for me. I am surprised this is not more discussed. I tried copying files to my local drive first, but they still wouldn’t import. thanks.
March 4th, 2008 at 1:38 pm
OMG - This was the first site I looked at since I’ve never had any trouble with importing until this last couple of weeks…and this is great!
Thank you SO much.
(stupid Vista)
Any ideas on how to copy files faster/easier? I can’t copy files to a disc easily (well one per minute at times)and it’s such a pain! any clues?