Thanks, Godfrey. It did the trick. Boris
Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: > 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
