On Feb 27, 2007, at 10:05 AM, Boris Liberman wrote: > Folks, on Windows Lightroom seems to hold lots of its data in > "My Documents\My Pictures\Lightroom" directory. Since Windows seems to > monitor access to anything beneath "My Documents" LR is terribly slow > now on my PC. > > How can I instruct LR to put its files elsewhere?
Assuming you're using the Free Trial of v1.0 release ... * Hold down the Alt key (Windows) or Options key (Mac OS) when starting Lightroom. * In the Select Database dialog box, do any of the following: - Create a new library using the button - Choose a library from the Database Location menu. - Click the Choose button to navigate to the library you want to open. - (Optional) To select a specific library to open every time you start Lightroom, select Always Load This Database On Startup. So: hold down the Alt key, start Lightroom, and create a database anywhere you want on your system. Then set it to be the default using the fourth option. By default on Mac OS X, Lightroom puts its managed files into the directory starting at ~/Pictures/Lightroom ... this does not include the image files themselves if you import using the "reference files in their existing location" option ... it includes all the database, metadata, preview files as well as Backup directories. I expect it's the same for Windows using the directory path you mention above. Lightroom reads and writes the database, previews and metadata files quite a lot. Godfrey -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
