Rick Womer wrote on 12/22/18 2:07 PM:
Thanks much, Godfrey. I’ll give it a try (post Xmas) and let you know how it goes.
I don't know how big your hard drive is, but with external drives down under $40/TB this might be a good time to buy an external drive and copy your applications folder, your home folder, raw files and catalogs to it.
If you were completely insane, you could just put a new internal drive in your computer, get an external case for your old drive, and just do a completely clean install of OS, apps, etc. and then copy your data over to the new machine and use your current drive as a complete backup. Once the dust settles, keep it at a friends house as a offsite backup.
RickOn 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 GOn 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. RickOn 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? RickOn 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. GOn 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.
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