Thanks much, Godfrey. I’ll give it a try (post Xmas) and let you know how it goes.
Rick > On Dec 22, 2018, at 4:38 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi <[email protected]> wrote: > > Again: your image files are all there, right? :-) > > The Lightroom application executable is independent of the catalog (.LRCAT) > file. I'd uninstall LR6 and then install it afresh. It sounds like something > has trashed the Lightroom application itself. > > Install LR fresh after uninstalling the current copy, then create a new > catalog, add some keywords, etc, to test it. ONce you know it works > correctly, open your usual working .LRCAT file. > > I would download a new LR6 installer rather than going to a backup … Be sure > you have your key code available for installation (you can fetch it from your > Adobe ID if you've lost it). Here's where the LR6 downloads are located: > https://helpx.adobe.com/download-install/kb/lightroom-downloads.html > > G > > >> On Dec 22, 2018, at 10:56 AM, Rick Womer <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Today I restarted the computer again, running fsck in the Unix shell on the >> way. No problems. >> >> Since the image counts and keywords are missing even in almost-2-year-old >> copies of the catalog, it seems it must be a mutation in Lightroom itself. >> >> My backups include LR6. Would I be inviting further trouble if I >> decompressed and ran one of them? >> >> Even dealing with the Kodak Labs in Fair Lawn was more fun dealing with >> these computer problems. >> >> Rick >> >> >>> On Dec 21, 2018, at 9:10 PM, Rick Womer <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Well, I just went into my extensive backups and opened several .LRCAT files >>> going back to Feb 2017. >>> >>> They don’t show the numbers of photos in the folders, and they don’t have >>> visible or searchable keywords. >>> >>> I’m utterly flummoxed. >>> >>> Any other suggestions? >>> >>> Rick >>> >>> >>>> On Dec 21, 2018, at 6:18 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi <[email protected]> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>> Hi Rick, >>>> >>>> I agree with the other responses: I doubt this had anything to do with the >>>> Google API change. It certainly hasn't happened on my system, and I got >>>> the notification when I clicked on the Maps module and found it no longer >>>> worked. >>>> >>>> First: I presume you've checked the folders on the hard drive and all the >>>> files are still there. If you have used the "Metadata > Save metadata to >>>> files" command, all your metadata, including keywords, are saved on disk >>>> in the actual image files for DNG, TIFF, and JPEG files, and in .xmp >>>> sidecar files for the native raw files. (I do this regularly, as I work >>>> through a session, so that I don't have to do it en masse. So all is not >>>> lost, if you've saved regularly as you work. >>>> >>>> I would definitely load a recent backup of the catalog file and test that. >>>> The likelyhood is greatest that something simply clobbered your current >>>> .LRCAT file. If no backup .LRCAT works, you can always start LR up, create >>>> a new catalog, and then have it import all the existing files in ADD mode >>>> and recreate most of the .LRCAT that way, minus virtual copies etc. >>>> >>>> PITA for sure, but I wouldn't link it with the Google API change other >>>> than maybe as a side effect of something that notified you. >>>> >>>> G >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>> On Dec 20, 2018, at 3:14 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 >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> 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. -- 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.
