That sucks, but I don't think it's related to the API change. (I follow a lot of Lightroom blogs and the Adobe forums, and it doesn't seem to be an issue that others are reporting.) Have you tried restoring your Lightroom catalog (*.lrcat file) from a backup taken back when it was working correctly? That would probably be my next step after the restarts that you've already done.
On Thu, Dec 20, 2018 at 6:15 PM Rick Womer <[email protected]> wrote: > > Godfrey, > > The following things abruptly happened in LR6 and just about the time of the > API change: > > - I have a “Photos” folder containing one folder for each year on an external > drive that I use as my “photo drive.” The number of photos reported overall, > and the number of photos in each annual folder, went to 0. Oddly, most of the > monthly sub-folders still display accurate counts, though some (like all of > them from 2015) report 0. > > - My keywords vanished, almost every one of them. Some groups of photos still > have their keywords, but the search function can’t find them. > > I tried quitting and restarting LR, and quitting and restarting my computer > and hard drives. No use. > > Rick > > > > > On Dec 20, 2018, at 5:57 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > > > > >> On Dec 20, 2018, at 2:42 PM, Rick Womer <[email protected]> wrote: > >>> On Dec 20, 2018, at 5:35 PM, Matthew Hunt <[email protected]> wrote: > >>> On Thu, Dec 20, 2018 at 4:48 PM Rick Womer <[email protected]> wrote: > >>> > >>>> 1. I have LR 6.14 installed on my computer. Why should it be updating > >>>> anything from Google? > >>> > >>> You don't have maps and images of the whole world on your computer. > >>> When you use the mapping module in Lightroom, it accesses Google's > >>> servers for the maps and images. > >> > >> I’ve never used the mapping module in LR. I =did= use my keywords, a lot! > >> I really have no idea what to do here. > > > > Hi Rick, > > > > Nothing about the Google API change should affect your keywords, and the > > only thing that is broken in LR 6.14 is the Maps module … which I've never > > used. What problem are you running into with keywords? > > > > I have LR 6.14 running on my macOS system (macOS X Mojave) right now. > > Nothing's wrong with either my keywords or anything but the Maps module, > > which I have never really used at all. So I just edited the top bar and > > removed it's module key so I don't click on it accidentally. > > > > > >>>> 3. Why are the people who run large tech companies such jerks? > >>> > >>> Maintaining and old API in addition to the new API would incur costs > >>> to Google, which they do not wish to incur. Adobe incurs costs > >>> updating Lightroom to the new API, and they recover these costs > >>> through the subscription pricing model, which you have elected not to > >>> pay. This is, to be frank, an example of why even "software that's > >>> finished and works" requires maintenance, and why software companies > >>> are moving to subscription models to the degree that the market allows > >>> them to do so. > >> > >> Adobe’s terrible customer service has always indicated to me that they > >> don’t give a damn about their users once they have their money. So I guess > >> I shouldn’t be surprised when they disable a vital feature in order to > >> maintain a couple of bells-and-whistles. > > > > Hmm. While I have my beefs with Adobe and their attitudes, and certainly > > with their "subscription is everything" policy of the present, I have to > > say that I've never had any issues (other than that they're slow and it > > often takes a good bit of effort to find/get what I need out of them) with > > their customer service when I've used it. I dislike the subscription model > > because, as they have it configured, it's not a good match to my needs and > > there's no longer any way around it if I want to keep up to date on their > > tools. > > > > My solution is to switch to other tools, eventually, when Adobe tools I > > have stop working. The Google Maps API is one part dead, but it's a part I > > never really use so it's not of much importance to me. Same for the Publish > > Services, and Book and Web modules … never used them other than to test > > things, so I just ignore them. > > > > G > > -- > > 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. > > > -- > 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. -- 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.
