I really need to look at the catalogue workings more. I never really understood it.
Now, next question. I have LR 1.4 on the PC and Mac. Can i cross install again.?? LR beta is on both machines. Dave On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 4:34 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Aug 8, 2008, at 11:02 AM, Charles Robinson wrote: > >> On Aug 8, 2008, at 11:11, Tim Bray wrote: >>> LR1.4 is still there after the upgrade. First time you run LR2, it >>> asks if you want to upgrade your catalog(s). Seems just fine so far, >>> except for, it's a little slower and more heavyweight. My basic >>> MacBook breathes hard with big catalogs or big pics, the big Mac Pro >>> is just fine. -T >>> >> >> Once you "upgrade" your catalog, is it a separate catalog so that you >> could (if you wanted to) go back to using 1.4 with its prior catalog? >> Seems like that would have to be the case, but I'd want to be sure (in >> case, for some odd reason, I wanted to bail out of LR2 and go back to >> the ol' familiar one). > > When LR2 upgrades a catalog, it creates a new catalog and tells you > where/what it will be. The original catalog is left intact and > unaltered. However, it does move the previews file/folder for the > original catalog to the folder containing the new catalog, saving time > and space on disk. This means that if you open the original catalog > with Lightroom 1.4.1, it has to recreate the previews. LR will do this > automatically, but it will take some time depending upon the size of > the catalog. > > I haven't seen any reason to bail out of LR2 yet, however. Once I > upgrade a catalog, I'm pretty much done with it in LR1. > > Godfrey > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- Equine Photography www.caughtinmotion.com http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ Ontario Canada -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
