Lightroom import fails in Vista

I tried to import pictures for the first time in Lightroom on my new Vista machine.

I kept on getting the mysterious:

"Problem with Importing Files - the file was not imported. Could not copy a file to the requested location."

At first I thought it was my card reader. I got a brand new, built in one. But I was able to read the files directly. So I tried copying the files to my desktop and importing them from there. I got the same error.

I double checked the file permissions of the target and they were all fine. I also tried not applying any Metadata templates or “Rendering Standard-Sized Previews.” Same result.

Normally, I organize the imported pictures with the following options:

I went ahead and changed to:

surprisingly that worked! However, that is frustrating because I like to auto create a separate folder for each day based upon date taken.

After looking around on Adobe’s website, I found the following:

http://www.adobe.com/go/kb401508

If the By Date path you select for your folder in the Import Photos dialog box contains a forward slash, then your photos are not imported.

So it is a Lightroom bug with Vista. I changed the option to:

That will work fine. I can then rearrange after import. I really want an option that makes it YYYY/MM/YYYY-MM-DD/. For now, I will manually create that structure.

One thing that is weird: this is one of the few “template” things that you cannot edit in the application settings folder for Lightroom.