Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote on 12/22/18 3:59 PM:
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.
I don't think that he needs to. I think that it is a fairly low cost
way to simultaneously attack the problem and give him a comprehensive
backup of his system, and possibly upgrade his computer's hard drive
before it fails. It's one of those tasks that depending on how you do
it could only take a little of interactive time, while letting the
computer churn for hours in the background.
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.
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