On Dec 10, 2009, at 2:14, mike wilson 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. >
I don't know why the duplicates sat around, but... the idea is that it duplicates it for a set amount of time (1 day, 1 week, 1 month). This is handy when you want to look at an image and the original is "offline". The "previews" are supposed to be cleared automatically, but clearly I had something screwed up. Other than that... there are other pieces of software which suck much harder in that department. Apple's iPhoto, for example, has duplicates left-righ-and-sideways. Horrible, horrible stuff. I love Lightroom so much for handling my images, I can't imagine having to do it any other way now. Especially handy is the (bloatware, whatever) small thumbnails which stay in the database even when your 4-year-old images have long been archived off to discs that are on a shelf somewhere. Need to find a copy for a friend? Pull up the image and LR will tell you which disc you need to mount in order to process/duplicate the image. Too too too darned handy. -Charles -- Charles Robinson - [email protected] Minneapolis, MN http://charles.robinsontwins.org http://www.facebook.com/charles.robinson -- 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.
