On Aug 24, 2013, at 11:36 AM, Godfrey DiGiorgi <[email protected]> wrote:
> Your questions beg more questions in search of an answer .. Thanks for the detailed response, Godfrey. I didn't realize all that information might be relevant to resolving this particular problem. The answers to the questions are: The OS is OS X 10.8.4. LR is 5. RAM is 4 GB. The LR catalog is on the startup drive. Free disk space available to LR catalog/on the startup volume is 178 GB. Photos in the catalog: 5082. I am unfamiliar with "building previews." Since I get them on import, didn't realize it was something that could be "done" or "redone." A handful of the images are scanned images. I know that a backup catalog was loaded because /File/Open Recent displays a list or recently used catalogs with the current one checked. > If you are running from a backup catalog, and your "standard" catalog is > missing the recent folders you imported, then somehow you chose a different > catalog from the "standard" for your recent imports. > > Some context to make things clearer: Thanks, for the "context." I was familiar with it in a vague sort of way, but the clarification helps. > A Lightroom catalog folder also often includes by default a Backups directory > where it writes copies of the .LRCAT file when it does a backup operation. It > puts this directory inside the catalog folder by default since it cannot know > where else it ought to be until you tell it. Normally, the first time > Lightroom comes up with the backup dialog, you should tell it right there to > put the Backups directory somewhere else, typically on a volume located on a > separate hard drive, to minimize the risks of loss. Currently my backup folder is in the catalog folder, which gets backed up by Time Machine and then in a separate once-a-day backup of all my LR-related folders on a separate drive. I will move the backup folder to an external drive so when LR backs up outside the catalog and off the startup drive. > If you are actually using a backup catalog, what's happening is that when you > go to edit, Lightroom sees that the .LRDATA preview data for your image files > is incomplete. If you're in the Library module and using Quick Develop, you > can have selected one or many images from the currently available set that it > will need to apply the edits to, so it need to update the previews for all > the images in the currently chosen set if they are not complete. That's how > you get the "loading" image that spins and spins as it works to traverse all > the currently available images and create all the many different previews and > versions needed to do its job. If you're on a slowish computer with limited > RAM or limited disk space, this can take quite a while to complete. I know that I should never to do anything to LR files or folders outside LR. Nevertheless, I experimented, taking care that I could recover, with making a copy of the backup catalog, renamed it, and put it in the catalog folder. LR now starts up with the default catalog. > To set Lightroom to ALWAYS open with a specific catalog, open Lightroom > Preferences, General tab, and use the "When starting up use this catalog" > item's popup menu to select the catalog you want it to use. (You have two > dynamic choices - "open with the last catalog that was being used" or > "present me with a selection dialog" - and then a list of recently opened > catalogs specified by path name.) > > To set where to put the Backups folder, open the Catalog Settings dialog and > set Lightroom to "Backup on next exit". From the backup dialog, you can > choose where to put your backups by clicking the "choose" button. I've made these changes. > Hope that helps.™ Definitely does---and thanks again. Sincerely, ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Weir Decatur, GA USA [email protected] "What does it mean...that the world is so beautiful?" - Mary Oliver -- 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.
