Simple, to allow faster display of pictures without having to process the raw file each time.
On Thursday, December 10, 2009, mike wilson <[email protected]> wrote: > Charles Robinson wrote: > > > Last year (2008) I totally screwed up and lost (yes, lost) a whole month's > worth of images due to inconsistencies in my backup process. > > I realized just recently that all of the 1:1 previews from May of 2008 are > still in my Lightroom database (despite a setting which says to remove them > after a month!). > > > Glad that this worked out for you but it demonstrates cleary what I loathe > about Adobe products. Why should this programme _duplicate_ the full image > file? Utter bloatware behaviour. > > > > > Which brings me to this question: > > Is there a way to get that image data (which exists in the previews) exported > somehow? I know that doing a regular LR export, it will want to see the > source files (which don't exist).. so it might be tricky. > > Going off to Google now, but if anyone has suggestions/ideas, I'm all ears. > This "missing month" includes all of the photos I took for my daughter's > wedding - otherwise I'd just let it go. > > Well now. I just downloaded (free!) a utility which can browse your catalog, > and export images from 1:1 previews that you still have. Fantastic. > It's called LRViewer. http://imageingester.com/index.php > > So, question answered. And if anyone else finds themselves in a pinch, this > is a useful utility for not only that, but any time you want to browse your > library without all the overhead of running Lightroom. Hooray! > > > > -- > 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. > -- Thibault Massart aka Thibouille/Thibs ---------------------- Photo: K-7, Sigma 28/1.8 macro, FA50/1.4, DA40Ltd, K30/2.8, DA16-45, DA50-135, DA50-200, 360FGZ ... Laptop: Macbook 13" Unibody SnowLeo/Win7 Programing: Delphi 2009 -- 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.
