Luminar 3.0.2 on Mac is scanning hidden folders resulting in duplicates in the library

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Yves Canty

• February 09, 2019 14:09

Hi,

I just installed Luminar 3.0.2 on Mac.  It forced a rescan of my library...  and picked up all the thumbnails created by Adobe Bridge in the hidden folders .BridgeSharedCache scattered throughout my folder hierarchy.

As a result I end up with tons of duplicates while browsing my picture library (the originals + all the thumbnails created by Bridge).

Folders that start with a '.' are normally hidden to end users.  I think Luminar shouldn't show them nor try to scan them.  I haven't seen this before so I believe this behaviour is new to version 3.0.2.

These duplicates are really annoying from a usability standpoint.  The problem is even worse given Luminar doesn't show the file names in the main browser window, and doesn't allow excluding sub-folders from the view.  So I have no easy way to filter out the thumbnails from the originals while browsing. 

Please consider fixing this for the official release in two weeks!

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  Steve Ratts

  • February 10, 2019 03:00
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  Yes please! I think there are several great points here

  1. Please either don’t scan hidden folders or give users an option not to scan them
  2. Please show the file names so users can tell which version of the file they’re looking at
  3. Please make it optional if files in sub folders are shown. We may want to switch that off to help organize files and folders

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  Yves Canty

  • February 10, 2019 12:53

  It's worse than I thought.  I pointed Luminar to my Pictures folder that contains my Apple Photos Library.  Luminar scanned the photos library and is showing me its internal directory structure (database, Masters, resources, proxies, etc.).

  This is really bad since the Apple Photo Library directory structure is off limits to direct access like this.  I'm going to remove my Pictures folder from Luminar before I make a mistake and delete a file that could corrupt my Photos library.

  It took it a long while to scan it too. Maybe that could explain why people on other threads are complaining that Luminar 3.0.2 seems to hang at startup, if it's also scanning their Apple Photos library.

  I'll open a bug with support.

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  Kirk Osborn

  • February 10, 2019 17:32

  Hi,

  Thanks for your feedback. I'll pass your suggestions to our engineering team.

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