Comments on: It’s “Lightroom Maintenance” Thursday!

By: MANUEL

MANUEL — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 17:56:21 +0000

Ned downlaod driver

By: Jeremy Rowland

Jeremy Rowland — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 15:35:28 +0000

One more suggestion to improve performance and keep things running healthy is to regularly defragment the hard drive(s) containing the catalog and photos. As with any low-level disk utility, make sure everything is backed up on another drive before doing so. I use the free tool AusLogics Disk Defrag, which supposedly does a much better job than the built-in Windows defrag tool (Mac users can try out iDefrag, which I’ve heard is the only one worth using for Mac but costs a small fee; fragmentation is generally less of a problem on Macs)

The tips in Scott’s article will get a bigger bang for the buck, but defragmenting can get you that last 1-2% improvement, and less time thrashing on the drives usually translates not only into faster performance but less chance of a corrupted catalog (it’s happened to me a couple times).

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By: Kelly

Kelly — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 23:09:45 +0000

Well I fixed the problem based on a “maybe suggestion I received in an email.

I use Spyder to calibrate my monitor. A last night I got the “your calibration is out of date, calibrate now” message and I clicked no because I was surfing the web at the time. Well a few hours later is when I opened LR and had that mess. The calibration message never crossed my mind. So I just calibrated the monitor and now all is right with LR again so apparently Spyder must talk to LR and when you say no it tells LR not to work.

Now we have all learned a new bug to watch out for.

By: Go Lightroom » Blog Archive » Scott Kelby’s “Lightroom Maintenance” Thursday!

Fri, 09 Nov 2007 08:35:31 +0000

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By: Kelly

Kelly — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 02:57:41 +0000

oops, that link should be http://www.renysplace.com/LRexamplesm.jpg

Thanks for looking and any suggestions

kelly

By: Kelly

Kelly — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 02:56:37 +0000

Hi Scott - Can anyone help me with this. I went to start up LR tonite to follow Scott’s directions and as soon as it opened all my photo’s looked like this in both develop and folders:

http://www.renysplace.com/LTexample.jpg

What has happened? I didnt change anything at all. I tried to load a backed up version and the same thing happens. I looked at the actual folders where the photo’s live and they are all okay but my LR is apparently sick. Can anyone offer a suggestion?

Thanks

Kelly

By: S Masters

S Masters — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 02:17:34 +0000

Scott,

Once again you’ve shown us how to take a lemon problem and enjoy a lemonade experience. The slow grind, “now what’s wrong” is a thing
of the past. Once again sorting through a large photo session is a
joy, not a labor. Thanks!

By: Stacie’s Photography Blog » Blog Archive » Lightroom Backup via Kelby

Thu, 08 Nov 2007 21:54:58 +0000

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By: Thom Dombrowski

Thom Dombrowski — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 20:13:37 +0000

The optimize did some amazing things on the pc. When running LR before, it would basically be slow and grind the machine to a halt. Now after running that, LR is really quick to respond… Huge difference.. Thanks Scott (even though I did not win the iphone)

By: Jason

Jason — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 20:00:47 +0000

Thanks, Scott!
My photo library is not as extensive as yours I’m sure, but I still managed to reclaim several gigs of precious hard-drive territory!
Got your new 7-Point System book at Amazon Tuesday and finally got around to reading a bit last night. Sat down with the intention of reading the intro and then getting some desperately needed sleep, but couldn’t put it down and wound up busting out my laptop and running through the first three lessons! What a sweet book and what a sweet concept … It has been said that “repetition is the mother of skill”. This book really promotes that approach and I love it!

By: Claude Biron

Claude Biron — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 19:15:13 +0000

I’m wondering if you can now rely on Apple Leopard Time Machine to keeps backups of everything Lightroom? I have Time Machine working without error now on my iMac.