Huzzah! Deleting the p-list seems to have done the trick. I now have the correct tallies of photos, and my keywords are back!
Thanks very much Godfrey, and all the others who chimed in. Rick > On Dec 22, 2018, at 6:59 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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. -- 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.
