hammam Posted September 1, 2007 Share #1 Posted September 1, 2007 Advertisement (gone after registration) I hadn't used LR for a while, and when I lauched it recently the menu command «File/Import» had disappeared. All I have is «Import photos from disk», «Import photos from device (greyed out)», «Import photos from Catalog» and «Auto Import.» Is there something I forgot or do wrong, or does this command simply doesn't exist? I am dumbfounded because I remember using it before, and also the manual mentions it, along wiht its different options. In the same vein, believing I might have to re-install the program, I transfered it from my main drive to an external drive, along with its relevant folder, and I trashed the plist. When I try to re-install from the original disk, all I get at one point is a message «You cannot continue, there is nothing to install» (!) Version is 1.1 and I'm on a PowerMac G5. Any help will be appreciated. Thanks. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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farnz Posted September 1, 2007 Share #2 Posted September 1, 2007 Olivier, I also use LR 1.1 and I have the same options as you do under the File menu but I have no problem importing files. The "Import from device" only becomes live when you insert a device, such as card reader, into a firewire or USB port. The "Import" button remains at the bottom of the left-hand toolbar in the Library module and will ask you to specify where to import the files from. Perhaps this is the Import you were remembering? Or perhaps LR 1.0 had an "Import" entry under the File menu - I'm afraid I don't remember. I'd guess that the "There is nothing to install" error message probably occurs because the original entry remains in the registry, so when the installer software looks at the registry entry it returns a valid address so the installer thinks that the software is already installed at that adress (even though you've manually moved it). Until the registry is updated then your installer will return the same error message. I'd guess that the only way to update the registry entry for LR would be to uninstall it and reinstall on the other disk (just what you were trying to avoid) or manually changing the registry address yourself. Certainly this is not straightforward on a pc because you'd need to know which registry address you're looking for but I wouldn't know where to start for a mac - or if it is even possible. Pete. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
guy Posted September 1, 2007 Share #3 Posted September 1, 2007 Sorry to hear about your problems, Olivier. Pete's right that the various options that are now in the File menu do cover all your bases for import: you're either going to be importing from an attached card or camera (ie "device") or you've copied those files onto your hard drive and want to import them from there ("disk"). And the big IMPORT button still exists towards the bottom left of the Library screen, as Pete says. What was it that you were trying to do that the File menu options wouldn't let you? I'm on a Mac and my suggestion would be to simply move the folder and application that you moved to an external drive back to where they were (that is, don't bother with trying to reinstall the program). Then start LightRoom. It will recreate its plist (which is a list of preferences, as I'd guess you already know) if the plist is missing. For what it's worth, I don't think you've had a fault here – my copy is identical to what you're describing – so trashing the plist won't have made much difference to anything. Sorry! Good luck: hope it all comes back. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
hammam Posted September 1, 2007 Author Share #4 Posted September 1, 2007 Thank you, my friends. I guess that must be it: the version on the disk is 1.0, and the one I have installed is 1.1, so I supposed I forgot I had upgraded it, and the «File/import» command has probably been replaced. I had this strange feeling since, at the same time, I found displaying a Nef or DNG file took awfullly long, and I thought I had a bug. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
carstenw Posted September 2, 2007 Share #5 Posted September 2, 2007 About the slower display, it could be that your settings for preview image creation changed. If you use the preview cache, Lightroom will remove the images after a certain amount of time. If you turn the caching off, and generate standard previews on import, as well as 1:1 previews in the Library>Previews menu, then the program gets a lot faster. I am also on a PowerMac G5 with 1.1. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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