I'll have to give that a try this weekend, if I get the time. Thanks. -- Bob
> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Tim Øsleby > Sent: 15 March 2007 00:28 > To: 'Pentax-Discuss Mail List' > Subject: RE: Lightroom crashing my PC > > 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 > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
