RE: Heat wave

[jcoyle]

Not far behind you Alan - 25°C for us - but then I grew up in the UK!

John in Brisbane



-Original Message-
From: Alan C  
Sent: Wednesday, 7 September 2022 9:28 PM
To: pdml@pdml.net
Subject: Re: Heat wave

Welcome to Phalaborwa. We turn on the heaters when it goes under 40°C!

Alan C

On 07-Sep-22 02:25 AM, John Francis wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 06, 2022 at 11:50:57PM +0100, Steve Cottrell wrote:
>> Here, down to a balmy 21 or so daytime, big fat low revolving over us 
>> dumping good amounts of rain. The grass has lost the bright yellow glow and 
>> patches of green are returning. Rain til the weekend. Happier days.
>>
>> Cot
> What is this grass of which you speak?   :-)
>
>
> I stopped watering the grass several years ago when it became painfully 
> obvious that:
>
>1) California didn't have enough water to meet existing requirements,
>   let alone the increases expected from population growth.
>
>2) It was extremely unlikely that California would be able to get the
>   votes required to change the allocation system, so there was no way
>   to prevent long-established agriculture, etc., having first rights
>   to take as much water as they wanted to grow crops; there wasn't
>   even a way to require efficient irrigation systems (too expensive)
>   or to prevent crops such as almonds (or even hay) being exported.
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Fwd: September PUG is up

[Daniel J. Matyola]

That certainly is a varied and interesting set of images.

For various reasons, I find Nos. 4, 50, 52 and 54 particularly compelling.

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Lets see if it will take it coming from me...

https://lightroom.adobe.com/shares/47c8d6369f8c4ec784cb1388e95fe3ef



On 9/6/2022 4:38 PM, Bob Pdml wrote:
> Thanks Ann. My first PUG for about twenty years! I’ve been enjoying
enormously shooting black and white, both digital and film, and also
rediscovering my old MX and some newly-acquired M lenses, which are real
gems.
>
> If the PDML would stop rejecting my emails which contain links I would
post a link to the Lightroom gallery I have been putting stuff in - quite a
lot added since I sent you the link a couple of weeks ago.
>
> Lightroom dot adobe dot com slash shares slash
47c8d6369f8c4ec784cb1388e95fe3ef
>
> B
>
>> On 6 Sep 2022, at 13:11, ann sanfedele  wrote:
>>
>> […]
>>
>> My favorites are Bob W's pier, Paul Sorenson's pier and Patricks "Misty"
- which is almost a BW.. I love
>> foggy photos and the painterly look.
>>
>> ann - waiting to see what Ralf did :-)
>>
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Re: More disappearing photos! Aaaargh!

[Paul Stenquist]

I won’t use Lightroom for similar reasons. I manually put my dng files in a 
labeled folder where it belongs and immediately back it up. I retrieve and 
organize files with Bridge. Idiot proof. Which I need.

Paul

> On Sep 7, 2022, at 6:02 PM, John Sessoms  wrote:
> 
> One reason I don't use Lightroom is because my initial experience with it 
> had it trying to hide the catalog from me. I couldn't find the files after I 
> first loaded them (among other problems).
> 
> Can the computer find the files? Not using Lightroom; just the computer 
> itself?
> 
> Can you do the Backblaze backup using a different external drive?
> 
> I may be teaching Grandma to suck eggs, but those are some simple diagnostic 
> steps that can help you decide if the problem is with Lightroom, Backblaze, 
> your external drives or your computer itself.
> 
> FWIW, here on my Windoze PC I can view DNG files using Irfanview and 
> FastStone Image Viewer, so if I suspected a bad card, I could check it out on 
> this different computer (I have a separate computer I built for photography & 
> editing).
> 
> I think both of those programs are available for Apple/Mac, so if you need a 
> way to check whether the images are still on the card ...
> 
>> On 9/6/2022 10:08 PM, Rick Womer wrote:
>> It happened again.
>> Yesterday I took the K-5 and 50-200 for a walk around the neighborhood. I 
>> took about 50 shots.
>> As soon as I got home, I removed the card from the camera, put it into the 
>> reader, and loaded the photos into Lightroom.
>> I ejected the card, but did not erase it. Before I went down to prepare and 
>> eat dinner I started a Time Machine backup to an external drive used only 
>> for that purpose; and when that was complete I launched a Backblaze backup.
>> I worked on the photos in LR after dinner, and worked up 9 of them to be 
>> posted as PESOs.
>> This evening, I went to post the PESOs. Lightroom now has a little box with 
>> an exclamation point in it for every single photo, and yesterday’s backups 
>> (which I watched until they were complete) are not visible either on my 
>> backup drive or in Backblaze.
>> I’ve been using the same system since 2005, with no previous problems; and 
>> now it has screwed up twice in the past week, and 3 times in the last few 
>> months.
>> Any thoughtful ideas will be much appreciated.
>> Rick
>> (who might take up basket-weaving instead of photography…)
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Re: More disappearing photos! Aaaargh!

[John Sessoms]

I'd want to know WHY two hard disks crapped out at the same time before 
hooking a third drive to the computer.


On 9/7/2022 9:54 AM, Rick Womer wrote:

Thanks to those who replied.  Alas, the DNGs no longer exist where either LR or 
Spotlight can find them.

I unmounted both external drives and ran Disk Utility. Both have problems. The message for the primary 
(Toshiba) drive is "OWC Toshiba: "The partition map needs to be repaired because there's a 
problem with the EFI system partition's file system : (-69766)”.  The secondary (WD) drive gets the 
report "OWC Toshiba: "The partition map needs to be repaired because there's a problem with 
the EFI system partition's file system : (-69766).  Western Digital:  Container disk okay; Container 
disk 3 "Storage system verify or repair failed  :(-69716)

Sheesh, both hard drives crap out at the same time. I had no idea that 
Backblaze would fail to back up files when I selected “Back up now”.

What now? I have another unused (somewhat creaky) hard drive. Do I copy all the 
files to it, and reformat the other two?

Rick





On Sep 7, 2022, at 2:11 AM, Toine  wrote:



On Wed, 7 Sept 2022 at 06:54, Larry Colen  wrote:





On Sep 6, 2022, at 7:08 PM, Rick Womer  wrote:

It happened again.

Yesterday I took the K-5 and 50-200 for a walk around the neighborhood.

I took about 50 shots.


As soon as I got home, I removed the card from the camera, put it into

the reader, and loaded the photos into Lightroom.


I ejected the card, but did not erase it. Before I went down to prepare

and eat dinner I started a Time Machine backup to an external drive used
only for that purpose; and when that was complete I launched a Backblaze
backup.


I worked on the photos in LR after dinner, and worked up 9 of them to be

posted as PESOs.


This evening, I went to post the PESOs. Lightroom now has a little box

with an exclamation point in it for every single photo, and yesterday’s
backups (which I watched until they were complete) are not visible either
on my backup drive or in Backblaze.


I’ve been using the same system since 2005, with no previous problems;

and now it has screwed up twice in the past week, and 3 times in the last
few months.


Any thoughtful ideas will be much appreciated.


Are they still on the card?

Have you searched your harddrive for any of the specific files?

When you run the lightroom “find all missing files” function, what
happens?  Are more files missing?

Is there any chance the drive they were copied to got unplugged?

When I read files into lightroom, I have it automatically make a short
term backup to a scratch disk.  Every few months I’ll go through and clean
that up, after I’ve made my three backups.





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Re: More disappearing photos! Aaaargh!

[John Sessoms]

One reason I don't use Lightroom is because my initial experience with 
it had it trying to hide the catalog from me. I couldn't find the files 
after I first loaded them (among other problems).


Can the computer find the files? Not using Lightroom; just the computer 
itself?


Can you do the Backblaze backup using a different external drive?

I may be teaching Grandma to suck eggs, but those are some simple 
diagnostic steps that can help you decide if the problem is with 
Lightroom, Backblaze, your external drives or your computer itself.


FWIW, here on my Windoze PC I can view DNG files using Irfanview and 
FastStone Image Viewer, so if I suspected a bad card, I could check it 
out on this different computer (I have a separate computer I built for 
photography & editing).


I think both of those programs are available for Apple/Mac, so if you 
need a way to check whether the images are still on the card ...


On 9/6/2022 10:08 PM, Rick Womer wrote:

It happened again.

Yesterday I took the K-5 and 50-200 for a walk around the neighborhood. I took 
about 50 shots.

As soon as I got home, I removed the card from the camera, put it into the 
reader, and loaded the photos into Lightroom.

I ejected the card, but did not erase it. Before I went down to prepare and eat 
dinner I started a Time Machine backup to an external drive used only for that 
purpose; and when that was complete I launched a Backblaze backup.

I worked on the photos in LR after dinner, and worked up 9 of them to be posted 
as PESOs.

This evening, I went to post the PESOs. Lightroom now has a little box with an 
exclamation point in it for every single photo, and yesterday’s backups (which 
I watched until they were complete) are not visible either on my backup drive 
or in Backblaze.

I’ve been using the same system since 2005, with no previous problems; and now 
it has screwed up twice in the past week, and 3 times in the last few months.

Any thoughtful ideas will be much appreciated.

Rick

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Re: Heat wave

[Steve Cottrell]

Lawn ;-)

Cot


On 7 Sep 2022, at 01:25, John Francis  wrote:

What is this grass of which you speak?   :-)
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Re: Strange thing

[Larry Colen]

> On Sep 7, 2022, at 2:38 PM, John Sessoms  wrote:
> 
> I vaguely remember there was a problem either with Ricoh cameras or Ricoh 
> lenses back in film days. They used the K-mount bayonet, but there was 
> something they did different and either Ricoh lenses would get stuck if you 
> mounted them on a Pentax camera or Pentax lenses would get stuck on Ricoh 
> cameras.
> 
> I wish I remembered more specifically what the problem was, and I don't know 
> if this relates to Bob's problem, but I hope it might somehow help.

There was a pin on Ricoh lenses that would catch on something on a Pentax body 
and you wouldn’t be able to take the lens off the body.

> 
> 
> On 9/6/2022 11:35 AM, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote:
>> Hi Bob!
>> Hmm. I'd seen some odd-ball Pentax lens mount stuff over the days when I was 
>> mucking with a bunch of Pentax -M and -A lenses and adapters. Never had a 
>> 120mm, I'd be interested to see what the rear mounting flange looks like. I 
>> know a couple of Pentax lenses had to have the diaphragm control lever 
>> modified to fit one or another lens mount adapter out of the bunch that I 
>> had…
>> If the server kills your email if you embed a link, drop a line to my 
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>>> On Sep 5, 2022, at 7:12 AM, Bob Pdml  wrote:
>>> 
>>> Well, two strange things really.
>>> 
>>> First is an on-topic message from me.
>>> 
>>> Second is an oddity with a Pentax-M 120mm f2.8 lens that I have.
>>> 
>>> If anyone here has one of these, could you please compare the back of it 
>>> with your other M lenses?
>>> 
>>> I have been doing some informal ‘shoot outs’ with my Pentax-M lenses and my 
>>> Leica lenses, and will put them online if anyone is interested. Anyway, I 
>>> have been using my Leica M10 monochrome body for all the shots, and a 
>>> Novoflex adapter for the Pentax lenses, without any problems.
>>> 
>>> Except that the 120mm lens doesn’t fit the adapter.
>>> 
>>> On closer inspection, the bit at the back (sorry for the technical jargon) 
>>> of the 120mm lens where the aperture levers are is significantly different 
>>> from the other lenses. The photos at this link show you. The 120mm is on 
>>> the left; the other lens is a 135mm, which is about the same size.
>>> 
>>> (A link to some pictures should go here, but the server keeps rejecting my 
>>> emails with links. I’ll try to find another way of showing the pictures).
>>> 
>>> On the 135mm and other lenses there are some concentric grooves at the 
>>> back, and it is stepped down. The 120mm is plain, and doesn’t have the step.
>>> 
>>> On the adapter there is a flange which goes down into the dropped part of 
>>> the step when you put a lens on, and of course it can’t do this on the 
>>> plain back end of the 120mm, so the adapter won’t go on the lens.
>>> 
>>> The lens fits my Pentax MX fine, as well as a number of other MXes I’ve 
>>> been evaluating with a view to buying a new one. As far as I know it 
>>> doesn’t affect anything when shooting. However, I need to test this lens 
>>> specifically as any problems it causes may have become mixed up with 
>>> problems which have caused me to reject other cameras.
>>> 
>>> It’s possible that someone has had the lens altered for some reason, 
>>> although it is otherwise mint-, but it looks almost like a KF mount.
>>> 
>>> Anybody else have one like this?
>>> 
>>> Thanks,
>>> Bob
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Re: September PUG is up (yes, really!)

[John Sessoms]

Refresh worked.

On 9/6/2022 11:47 PM, Alan C wrote:

Nope.

Alan C

On 07-Sep-22 01:07 AM, Brian W wrote:

The September PUG is now back at the main link:

http://pug.komkon.org/


Cheers
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Re: Heat wave

[John Sessoms]

FWIW, I've NEVER watered the "grass" around here, but for some reason it 
still grows & I have to cut it every week or so during the summer.


On 9/6/2022 8:25 PM, John Francis wrote:

On Tue, Sep 06, 2022 at 11:50:57PM +0100, Steve Cottrell wrote:

Here, down to a balmy 21 or so daytime, big fat low revolving over us dumping 
good amounts of rain. The grass has lost the bright yellow glow and patches of 
green are returning. Rain til the weekend. Happier days.

Cot


What is this grass of which you speak?   :-)


I stopped watering the grass several years ago when it became painfully obvious 
that:

   1) California didn't have enough water to meet existing requirements,
  let alone the increases expected from population growth.

   2) It was extremely unlikely that California would be able to get the
  votes required to change the allocation system, so there was no way
  to prevent long-established agriculture, etc., having first rights
  to take as much water as they wanted to grow crops; there wasn't
  even a way to require efficient irrigation systems (too expensive)
  or to prevent crops such as almonds (or even hay) being exported.
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Re: OT Canadian incident

[Daniel J. Matyola]

Don't the Mounties always get their man?

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On Wed, Sep 7, 2022 at 5:41 PM John Sessoms  wrote:

> Some of the news stories I've seen were more explicit, that authorities
> believe his brother killed him ... and they think he wounded his brother
> in the fight.
>
> Hope they find the other one soon.
>
> On 9/6/2022 5:44 PM, Bill wrote:
> > The local news hasn't released a location of where the deceased was
> found,
> > but did say he appeared to have died of "non self inflicted injuries",
> > whatever that means.
> > The latest is that he is on a first nation somewhere well away from
> Regina,
> > so they may never have been in the city.
> >
> > bill
> >
> > On Mon., Sep. 5, 2022, 4:32 p.m. ann sanfedele, 
> wrote:
> >
> >> just heard on TV (CBS nightly news in NYC)  here that they found one of
> >> the perps dead of apaprently natural causes in the forest.. other
> >> still on run but may be injured and may seek medical attention..
> >>
> >> ann
> >>
> >> On 9/5/2022 1:09 PM, Bill wrote:
> >>> On Mon., Sep. 5, 2022, 11:08 a.m. Bill, 
> >> wrote:
> >>>
>  We have a couple of young men who have gone on something of a rampage.
>  They started off on one of the first nations, killing a number of
> >> people,
>  then moved to a nearby town where they killed a few more people, and
> are
>  now, from what I understand have made their way to Regina.
>  I believe the body count do far is 10 dead and 15 injured.
>  I'm guessing the police will have to kill them to take custody of
> them.
>  Regina has a fairly high first nation's population with a number of
> >> gangs,
>  so they might be able to stay hidden for some time.
> 
>  bill
> >>
> >>
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Re: OT Canadian incident

[John Sessoms]

Some of the news stories I've seen were more explicit, that authorities 
believe his brother killed him ... and they think he wounded his brother 
in the fight.


Hope they find the other one soon.

On 9/6/2022 5:44 PM, Bill wrote:

The local news hasn't released a location of where the deceased was found,
but did say he appeared to have died of "non self inflicted injuries",
whatever that means.
The latest is that he is on a first nation somewhere well away from Regina,
so they may never have been in the city.

bill

On Mon., Sep. 5, 2022, 4:32 p.m. ann sanfedele,  wrote:


just heard on TV (CBS nightly news in NYC)  here that they found one of
the perps dead of apaprently natural causes in the forest.. other
still on run but may be injured and may seek medical attention..

ann

On 9/5/2022 1:09 PM, Bill wrote:

On Mon., Sep. 5, 2022, 11:08 a.m. Bill, 

wrote:



We have a couple of young men who have gone on something of a rampage.
They started off on one of the first nations, killing a number of

people,

then moved to a nearby town where they killed a few more people, and are
now, from what I understand have made their way to Regina.
I believe the body count do far is 10 dead and 15 injured.
I'm guessing the police will have to kill them to take custody of them.
Regina has a fairly high first nation's population with a number of

gangs,

so they might be able to stay hidden for some time.

bill




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Re: Strange thing

[John Sessoms]

I vaguely remember there was a problem either with Ricoh cameras or 
Ricoh lenses back in film days. They used the K-mount bayonet, but there 
was something they did different and either Ricoh lenses would get stuck 
if you mounted them on a Pentax camera or Pentax lenses would get stuck 
on Ricoh cameras.


I wish I remembered more specifically what the problem was, and I don't 
know if this relates to Bob's problem, but I hope it might somehow help.



On 9/6/2022 11:35 AM, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote:

Hi Bob!

Hmm. I'd seen some odd-ball Pentax lens mount stuff over the days when I was 
mucking with a bunch of Pentax -M and -A lenses and adapters. Never had a 
120mm, I'd be interested to see what the rear mounting flange looks like. I 
know a couple of Pentax lenses had to have the diaphragm control lever modified 
to fit one or another lens mount adapter out of the bunch that I had…

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On Sep 5, 2022, at 7:12 AM, Bob Pdml  wrote:

Well, two strange things really.

First is an on-topic message from me.

Second is an oddity with a Pentax-M 120mm f2.8 lens that I have.

If anyone here has one of these, could you please compare the back of it with 
your other M lenses?

I have been doing some informal ‘shoot outs’ with my Pentax-M lenses and my 
Leica lenses, and will put them online if anyone is interested. Anyway, I have 
been using my Leica M10 monochrome body for all the shots, and a Novoflex 
adapter for the Pentax lenses, without any problems.

Except that the 120mm lens doesn’t fit the adapter.

On closer inspection, the bit at the back (sorry for the technical jargon) of 
the 120mm lens where the aperture levers are is significantly different from 
the other lenses. The photos at this link show you. The 120mm is on the left; 
the other lens is a 135mm, which is about the same size.

(A link to some pictures should go here, but the server keeps rejecting my 
emails with links. I’ll try to find another way of showing the pictures).

On the 135mm and other lenses there are some concentric grooves at the back, 
and it is stepped down. The 120mm is plain, and doesn’t have the step.

On the adapter there is a flange which goes down into the dropped part of the 
step when you put a lens on, and of course it can’t do this on the plain back 
end of the 120mm, so the adapter won’t go on the lens.

The lens fits my Pentax MX fine, as well as a number of other MXes I’ve been 
evaluating with a view to buying a new one. As far as I know it doesn’t affect 
anything when shooting. However, I need to test this lens specifically as any 
problems it causes may have become mixed up with problems which have caused me 
to reject other cameras.

It’s possible that someone has had the lens altered for some reason, although 
it is otherwise mint-, but it looks almost like a KF mount.

Anybody else have one like this?

Thanks,
Bob

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Re: OT: For the list members in the UK

[David J Brooks]

On Tue, Sep 6, 2022 at 11:14 AM Ralf R Radermacher  wrote:

> Am 06.09.22 um 16:56 schrieb Stanley Halpin:
>
> > Just back from some time in Iceland and a brief stop in Greenland. Both
> seem pleasant, civilized locales.
>
> One of them, I don't remember which, has a serious alcohol problem and
> an alarming suicide rate.
>

Not if British pubs start charging 23 pounds a pint

Dave

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Re: More disappearing photos! Aaaargh!

[Rick Womer]

Thanks to those who replied.  Alas, the DNGs no longer exist where either LR or 
Spotlight can find them. 

I unmounted both external drives and ran Disk Utility. Both have problems. The 
message for the primary (Toshiba) drive is "OWC Toshiba: "The partition map 
needs to be repaired because there's a problem with the EFI system partition's 
file system : (-69766)”.  The secondary (WD) drive gets the report "OWC 
Toshiba: "The partition map needs to be repaired because there's a problem with 
the EFI system partition's file system : (-69766).  Western Digital:  Container 
disk okay; Container disk 3 "Storage system verify or repair failed  :(-69716)

Sheesh, both hard drives crap out at the same time. I had no idea that 
Backblaze would fail to back up files when I selected “Back up now”.

What now? I have another unused (somewhat creaky) hard drive. Do I copy all the 
files to it, and reformat the other two?

Rick




> On Sep 7, 2022, at 2:11 AM, Toine  wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, 7 Sept 2022 at 06:54, Larry Colen  wrote:
> 
>> 
>> 
>>> On Sep 6, 2022, at 7:08 PM, Rick Womer  wrote:
>>> 
>>> It happened again.
>>> 
>>> Yesterday I took the K-5 and 50-200 for a walk around the neighborhood.
>> I took about 50 shots.
>>> 
>>> As soon as I got home, I removed the card from the camera, put it into
>> the reader, and loaded the photos into Lightroom.
>>> 
>>> I ejected the card, but did not erase it. Before I went down to prepare
>> and eat dinner I started a Time Machine backup to an external drive used
>> only for that purpose; and when that was complete I launched a Backblaze
>> backup.
>>> 
>>> I worked on the photos in LR after dinner, and worked up 9 of them to be
>> posted as PESOs.
>>> 
>>> This evening, I went to post the PESOs. Lightroom now has a little box
>> with an exclamation point in it for every single photo, and yesterday’s
>> backups (which I watched until they were complete) are not visible either
>> on my backup drive or in Backblaze.
>>> 
>>> I’ve been using the same system since 2005, with no previous problems;
>> and now it has screwed up twice in the past week, and 3 times in the last
>> few months.
>>> 
>>> Any thoughtful ideas will be much appreciated.
>> 
>> Are they still on the card?
>> 
>> Have you searched your harddrive for any of the specific files?
>> 
>> When you run the lightroom “find all missing files” function, what
>> happens?  Are more files missing?
>> 
>> Is there any chance the drive they were copied to got unplugged?
>> 
>> When I read files into lightroom, I have it automatically make a short
>> term backup to a scratch disk.  Every few months I’ll go through and clean
>> that up, after I’ve made my three backups.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> 
>>> Rick
>>> 
>>> (who might take up basket-weaving instead of photography…)
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Re: September PUG is up (yes, really!)

[Alan C]

I had nothing suitable for the Sept. PUG except, perhaps, this one - 
taken in 2012 before I had acquired a Pentax digital body. I was using 
my old Pentax lenses with Big-Is EMF adapters on a Canon 1000D body. 
Worked very well, but all manual. This one is at full stretch with the 
FA100-300.


https://www.flickr.com/photos/wisselstroom/52340551481/

Alan C

On 07-Sep-22 09:12 AM, Ralf R Radermacher wrote:

Am 07.09.22 um 05:47 schrieb Alan C:

Nope.


It is here, after a refresh. But my photo is still missing.

Ralf

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Re: Heat wave

[Alan C]

Welcome to Phalaborwa. We turn on the heaters when it goes under 40°C!

Alan C

On 07-Sep-22 02:25 AM, John Francis wrote:

On Tue, Sep 06, 2022 at 11:50:57PM +0100, Steve Cottrell wrote:

Here, down to a balmy 21 or so daytime, big fat low revolving over us dumping 
good amounts of rain. The grass has lost the bright yellow glow and patches of 
green are returning. Rain til the weekend. Happier days.

Cot

What is this grass of which you speak?   :-)


I stopped watering the grass several years ago when it became painfully obvious 
that:

   1) California didn't have enough water to meet existing requirements,
  let alone the increases expected from population growth.

   2) It was extremely unlikely that California would be able to get the
  votes required to change the allocation system, so there was no way
  to prevent long-established agriculture, etc., having first rights
  to take as much water as they wanted to grow crops; there wasn't
  even a way to require efficient irrigation systems (too expensive)
  or to prevent crops such as almonds (or even hay) being exported.
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Re: September PUG is up (yes, really!)

[Brian W]

Hmmm

Apologies, Ralf, but I have no record of the submission.

If you want to email it to me, I will certainly update the gallery to include
it.


Cheers
Brian

> On 07 September 2022 at 17:12 Ralf R Radermacher  wrote:
> 
> 
> Am 07.09.22 um 05:47 schrieb Alan C:
> > Nope.
> 
> It is here, after a refresh. But my photo is still missing.
> 
> Ralf
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Re: September PUG is up (yes, really!)

[Ralf R Radermacher]

Am 07.09.22 um 05:47 schrieb Alan C:

Nope.


It is here, after a refresh. But my photo is still missing.

Ralf

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Re: More disappearing photos! Aaaargh!

[Toine]

Installing some kind of S.M.A.R.T. HDD monitoring tool (
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.M.A.R.T.) could help detect HDD's ready to
fail. That said I had several failed HDD's and SMART didn't help. In fact
my oldest running HDD's have a red flag according to SMART. Backup is the
only solution. I rely on Goodsync for replicating files across 2 or more
HDD's, Amazon Photos and Onedrive to sync it to the cloud and backblaze to
create another backup. Backblaze is great but it takes its time before a
file is put in the backup queue. Amazon Photos was horrible and unreliable
the last years, they apparently changed something and now it's working as
expected. I check every now and then if files are really backuped to
onedrive, amazon and backblaze by checking their webversions of the tools.

On Wed, 7 Sept 2022 at 08:40, mike wilson  wrote:

>
> > On 07/09/2022 03:08 Rick Womer  wrote:
> > (who might take up basket-weaving instead of photography…)
>
> Tell me about it.  After losing four years' work during a backup
> procedure, I have been "off" photography for quite a while.  Interest is
> slowly reviving but I'm seriously considering going back to film.
>
> My deepest sympathies.
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Re: More disappearing photos! Aaaargh!

[Toine]

I would try to locate the files on (one of) the disc(s). The exclamation
sign is LR telling it can't find the files. Most likely you copied the
files to an internal or external drive which disconnected or failed. The
system disc must be up and running because LR is running

On Wed, 7 Sept 2022 at 06:54, Larry Colen  wrote:

>
>
> > On Sep 6, 2022, at 7:08 PM, Rick Womer  wrote:
> >
> > It happened again.
> >
> > Yesterday I took the K-5 and 50-200 for a walk around the neighborhood.
> I took about 50 shots.
> >
> > As soon as I got home, I removed the card from the camera, put it into
> the reader, and loaded the photos into Lightroom.
> >
> > I ejected the card, but did not erase it. Before I went down to prepare
> and eat dinner I started a Time Machine backup to an external drive used
> only for that purpose; and when that was complete I launched a Backblaze
> backup.
> >
> > I worked on the photos in LR after dinner, and worked up 9 of them to be
> posted as PESOs.
> >
> > This evening, I went to post the PESOs. Lightroom now has a little box
> with an exclamation point in it for every single photo, and yesterday’s
> backups (which I watched until they were complete) are not visible either
> on my backup drive or in Backblaze.
> >
> > I’ve been using the same system since 2005, with no previous problems;
> and now it has screwed up twice in the past week, and 3 times in the last
> few months.
> >
> > Any thoughtful ideas will be much appreciated.
>
> Are they still on the card?
>
> Have you searched your harddrive for any of the specific files?
>
> When you run the lightroom “find all missing files” function, what
> happens?  Are more files missing?
>
> Is there any chance the drive they were copied to got unplugged?
>
> When I read files into lightroom, I have it automatically make a short
> term backup to a scratch disk.  Every few months I’ll go through and clean
> that up, after I’ve made my three backups.
>
>
>
> >
> > Rick
> >
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