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Comment on Guest Blog Post: Making Your Mark by Rob

Rob — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 16:06:21 +0000

Hi Michele,

I would try replacing the preference file to see if that solved the problem:

http://lightroomers.com/replacing-the-lightroom-preference-file/745/

Comment on Guest Blog Post: Making Your Mark by Michele

Michele — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 05:48:00 +0000

Great blog!
I have a question… I have been moving photos from one folder to another, etc for months now. Today when I try to move a photo from one folder to another photo, the top left side of LR states “moving photos” has a long blank line and an x at the end. This usually shows its processing the move, but this time, its just blank. After 20 minutes nothing happens, but I try to move it again thinking I might not of done somthing the first time right, but it says something like “can’t proceed until this task is complete”, but nothing ever happens. So I force close LR down after an hour of waiting and reload it. Still same thing. I even tried to re optimize it… What can I do?

Thank you!
Michele

Comment on Photofocus: Two Fast Ways to Apply Develop Settings to Multiple Photos in Lightroom by Mike Nelson Pedde

Mike Nelson Pedde — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 03:05:15 +0000

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Mike.

Comment on Tutorial: Reconnecting folders and photos in Lightroom 2 by Rob

Rob — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 17:11:24 +0000

A fair point! However, not everyone has Lightroom set up to write from the database/catalog to the source photo’s XMP (regardless of the file type). In addition, not all data contained in the catalog is able to be written to XMP, so if:

- You have written all data to XMP prior to the disconnect
- You don’t mind losing collection membership, flag status, virtual copies and history steps

Then you can simply remove the disconnected files from Lightroom and then import that same folder and start from scratch. During import Lightroom will read from the XMP metadata space of each photo and preserve develop adjustments, keywords, ratings, color labels and other EXIF/IPTC data you may have entered previously.

In my experience the number of people who do renaming outside of Lightroom and create that problem for themselves is relatively low. More often it seems people move photos outside of Lightroom to new locations, and typically move the entire folder, which is relatively easy and painless to update. Thanks for the comment!

Comment on Tutorial: Reconnecting folders and photos in Lightroom 2 by Some guy in a light room

Some guy in a light room — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 16:03:23 +0000

Instead of the extremely tedious process of finding renamed files and confirming each one, why wouldn’t you just re-import folder with the DNG files with the new name, delete the question marked folder, and avoid the whole headache?

Comment on My Take on Lightroom 3 Beta by Rob

Rob — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 03:19:11 +0000

Actually, all you need is the latest version of Lightroom 2, which is now 2.6:

http://www.adobe.com/downloads/updates/

Lightroom 2.6 supports the G11, but the LR3 Beta does not.

Comment on My Take on Lightroom 3 Beta by MB

MB — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 01:04:18 +0000

Question: I have LR2. I would prefer not to lod the whole LR3Beta, but rather prefer to wait until the actual version comes out. In the meantime I’m shooting RAW files with my Canon G11 that LR can’t read. Is here a way to take/load a piece of LR3Beta so that LR2 recognizes them? Help! Thanks!

Comment on Tutorial: Moving Folders and Photos in Lightroom 2 by Rob

Rob — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 18:25:53 +0000

Hi Steve, Select and click File > Export. Designate the desired folder on the C drive as the destination. Configure other settings as desired.

Comment on Tutorial: Moving Folders and Photos in Lightroom 2 by Steve Bilbrough

Steve Bilbrough — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 22:37:57 +0000

I developed a picture that I imported into Lightroom 2 – now – how do I save it into my My Pictures sub-folder on my C drive?

Thanks … Steve

Comment on Tutorial: Boosting Lightroom Performance by Christian L

Christian L — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 22:26:28 +0000

The greatest performance increase I have experienced was after getting an SSD. I now have a 160GB SSD as the system drive, LR catalog+previews, and a 640GB HDD for the image library. Details here: http://automagisk.no/blog/2010/01/11/macbook-with-two-drives-160gb-ssd-640gb-hdd/