Godders, the plist idea is great. I’ve had those things cause trouble before.
Larry, I have a 500 gb SDD in the computer. My photos are on a 2 tb external. I have Time Machine backups to a 4 tb drive and a 2 tb, and to Backblaze. Cyber-distrustful? Me??? Rick On Sat, Dec 22 > > > 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. > > > > > > > -- > Larry Colen [email protected] http://red4est.com/lrc > https://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/collections/72157612824732477/ > > -- > 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.
