There are a few tricks you can do. First take a look at your hard drive. Lightroom is pretty disk intensive, so make sure you have lot of free space. Unless the drive is enormous I'd say it needs at least 20% free space.
Another thing is making sure the "Render Standard-Sized Previews" is checked on before making an import. Unless this is done Lightroom eats memory. This is rather simple. Next step is less pleasant. Thats to make sure you have no other processes running except those your system really needs. In other words, disable antivirus, firewall, office, the lot. If you don't know how to do this, ask. We are here to serve and obey. I'd strongly recommend unplugging the computer from the net before trying this. If this does the trick you need to look for a compromise between having a useable computer and a fast computer. You do that by enabling the processes you disabled one by one, and see how they affect Lightroom. A time consuming and tiresome process, but I believe it will help. Tim Typo Mostly harmless (just plain Norwegian) -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bob W Sent: 15. mars 2007 01:03 To: 'Pentax-Discuss Mail List' Subject: Lightroom crashing my PC Over the last few days I've had some problems where LR crashes my whole PC. It seems to happen during long-running processes, such as importing, and uploading to the website. That is, when the progress meter is shown in the top left. It crashes when the process is running, and I try to do something else, such as select one of the thumbnails. Unfortunately it isn't consistent or reproducible at will. No error messages or anything helpful are displayed, it simply switches the machine off. Anybody else had anything like this? I've scanned the Lightroom forum - some similar things have been reported, but not exactly the same. I can't see anything helpful in the Windows event log. -- Regards, Bob -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
