viramati Posted March 14, 2012 Share #1 Posted March 14, 2012 Advertisement (gone after registration) Looking on the Adobe Lr4 forums it would appear that it is full of bugs with thing not working (very technical term!) properly etc. Anyway I had downloaded the trial and was having problems with it and conflicts with Lr3. Got on to adobe technical who said to delete the LR4 trial and start again. Hahah not so easy. I am using a mac with 10.6.8 and it would not delete from the trash (kept getting error -8003) Anyway I am my last day of applecare and luckily I did get a 'genius' on the phone but it took an hour of going into the 'root' folder and using the 'terminal' with horribly complicated codes and some nerve-racking moments to get rid of it. I am now very wary of LR4 and think I will wait until they have sorted some of the bugs out before attempting to instal it again!! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Ecar Posted March 14, 2012 Share #2 Posted March 14, 2012 FWIW, I'm holding off until 4.1 is released. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest WPalank Posted March 14, 2012 Share #3 Posted March 14, 2012 David, Sorry to hear about your troubles and hope you get them sorted. My experience with LR4 and all the Nik Plug-ins is exactly the opposite of your experience. At first I was hesitant and now I feel lucky that I just returned from a trip far, far away with over 2,00 images. I've been careful not to disturb the unaltered two copies of the images. First thing I did before downloading the new LR4 was to trash and "empty' trash on the Beta. No problem. Please see this thread on Luminous Landscape I started and pay attention to Wayne Fox's and Jeff Schewe's comments. The software looks at your files completely differently. The sliders take a little getting used to as they do things entirely different: http://www.luminous-landscape.com/forum/index.php?topic=63588.0 You can push the "Fill Light" slider (now the Shadow slider) to 100% and get no artifacts. As Schewe suggests, sometimes in contrasty light I have to add a little negative Contrast (not a typo, I don't think I knew you could add negative) before working with the Clarity. You have to adapt your workflow completely anew. The Blacks Slider acts in the opposite direction it used to, but I think that's the way it should have been all along so it took me about two images to adjust to it. CA and purple fringing seem to be a thing of the past and seem to work in the background before the image even renders. The hardline, I'm astonished with the images I'm producing. But then again, I've never cared what other people think. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
john_newell Posted March 15, 2012 Share #4 Posted March 15, 2012 Looking on the Adobe Lr4 forums it would appear that it is full of bugs with thing not working (very technical term!) properly etc. Anyway I had downloaded the trial and was having problems with it and conflicts with Lr3. Got on to adobe technical who said to delete the LR4 trial and start again. Hahah not so easy. I am using a mac with 10.6.8 and it would not delete from the trash (kept getting error -8003) Anyway I am my last day of applecare and luckily I did get a 'genius' on the phone but it took an hour of going into the 'root' folder and using the 'terminal' with horribly complicated codes and some nerve-racking moments to get rid of it. I am now very wary of LR4 and think I will wait until they have sorted some of the bugs out before attempting to instal it again!! I never installed the beta, but LR4 installed and runs perfectly for me on two different machines. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dougg Posted March 15, 2012 Share #5 Posted March 15, 2012 ... Anyway I had downloaded the trial and was having problems with it and conflicts with Lr3. Got on to adobe technical who said to delete the LR4 trial and start again. Hahah not so easy. I am using a mac with 10.6.8 and it would not delete from the trash (kept getting error -8003) ... Sometimes the problem is that the Mac thinks the item in the trash is "busy", i.e. in use. Restarting the Mac generally takes care of that. Otherwise, I too have had files that won't trash (not LR related here), and sometimes "Secure Empty Trash" just below "Empty Trash" on the Finder menu will do it. Finally, "Lion Cache Cleaner" app has a force-empty trash feature that hasn't failed me yet! The feature is one of several that work (in either Lion or Snow Leopard) without paying the shareware... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
viramati Posted March 15, 2012 Author Share #6 Posted March 15, 2012 Thanks All Yes the problem deleting it was serious as no normal methods will get rid of it and as I said it took an hour on the phone with applecare to finally dump it using the terminal etc. By the way it wasn't the beta version but the release trial and there are features in it I like and will definitely reinstall when 4.1 comes out. Interestingly when I had it running i had no problems using silverefex pro and colorefex pro as external editors!! Basically it would seem that the release of the final version was a little rushed and really they should have done a bit more beta testing Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stunsworth Posted March 15, 2012 Share #7 Posted March 15, 2012 Advertisement (gone after registration) Strange how people with very similar equipment can have totally different experiences. I have an iMac and was running the beta of LR4. I deleted the beta, emptied the trash and then loaded the trial of LR4. No problems whatsoever, and I'll be buying the upgrade soon. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff S Posted March 15, 2012 Share #8 Posted March 15, 2012 For all the time computers have been around, it still amazes me how little they seem to have advanced in terms of consistency and ease of basic use. And, in this regard, I make no distinction between Apple, PC or brand. Or even whether the user is beginner or advanced...glitches still often happen. Just sayin'. Jeff Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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