I really don't see why you're thinking Rick needs a hard drive, a massive copy of his system to another drive, or anything like that. The Lightroom executable, or perhaps just its preferences files, has become damaged. Uninstalling it and installing a fresh copy should fix it just fine without all that palaver.
That is a thought, Rick: preferences… Lightroom stores its preferences in a .plist file at: ~/Library/Preferences/com.adobe.Lightroom6.plist You can use the Finder's "Go > Go to folder…" command, input that, and it will take you right there. It's possible that when the app got the news from Adobe that the Maps module was no longer accessible, it tried to write that file and messed it up. If you just delete that file, Lightroom will recreate it and should run properly at its new-install defaults. You'll have to recreate your app preferences settings. It's worth a shot, and is otherwise non-destructive. Just move the one that's there to the Desktop, start Lightroom, and see what happens. A new file will be created, and LR should run correctly but without whatever customizations you've set up. If it doesn't, just move the old one back. G > On Dec 22, 2018, at 2:13 PM, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > 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. -- 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.
