Yup - I know how beta releases work. The question was is anyone else having problems with it. My reply was to note the facts of how it worked for me on *my* machine. Should anyone else experience these symptoms hopefully they won't be snookered into thinking a bug has crept through their firewall, as I was.
<tongueincheek> As a Mac user, I suspect you have little or no experience regarding the dilemna of determining if it's a buggy machine or the software that's causing the problem. In the Mac world, with only about 5% market share, who wants to take the time to write attack software which will affect so few machines. We PC users, on the other hand, need to be on our toes constantly, watching and waiting for the next round of malicious infection. This makes it difficult, sometimes, to determine, is it a bug, is it the software I just installed, or (gasp) is it the OS? We lead such interesting lives, leaping from challenge to challenge, crisis to crisis. </tongueincheek> I have no doubt that when Adobe is finished there will have been many changes, both large and small, to the finished product. I'm looking forward to a later release that works well enough on my system so I can decide whether or not the workflow and results are worth my investment in the software. For me, that's as much reason for trying a beta release as is providing the vendor with feedback. -P Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: > Adobe Lightroom beta 3 is the first release for the Windows > environment. It is similar in its wretchedness to Lightroom beta 1 on > Mac OS X ... :-) > > This is how pre-release software is. It will be a finished, polished > release by the time Adobe is done with it, I have no doubt about > that. The Mac OS X version has come a long way over the past 7 months > and is *almost* up to the "useful enough to rely upon it" stage. I > find myself actually completing photographs with it now, > occasionally, but still prefer to do my production work with Bridge > +Camera Raw+Photoshop CS2 as it is faster and more reliable for me at > the present time. > > Godfrey > > On Jul 28, 2006, at 10:20 AM, Paul Sorenson wrote: > >> Not exactly that, but....I was able to make Lightroom run, but PSE >> went >> out the window and didn't want to load, USB wouldn't recognize my R800 >> and the system slowed down like I was trying to use XP with only 64 >> meg. >> Thought it was spyware or a bug, but couldn't find anything. >> Removed >> Lightroom and all is well. Will maybe try again if they offer a newer >> beta version. >> >> -P >> >>> I installed Lightroom on my machine, but for some reason, it won't >>> run. >>> When I try to start it, the computer looks like it is trying, but >>> then seems >>> to forget about it. >>> Is anyone else having this problem? > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
