I need advice with LR update.

[mitchell baum]

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I updated LightRoom with LR2.

 

I seems slow and has some bugs, and I've lost some images at least temporarily.

 

My question is what to do now. I could down load the newest update to fix the bugs, but I'm a bit leery of it because it's Beta.

 

Or I could go back to using LightRoom 1.2 which is still on my computer, (but maybe shouldn't be?).

 

For the next week, all I want is a stable way to edit and sort my images.

 

What do you suggest?

 

Thanks for any help.

 

Best,

 

Mitchell

[elgenper]

Stay with 2! It´s too much of an improvement to pass.

 

But, are you still running the LR2 beta?? It´s on version 2.1 now (more or less...). Do upgrade the beta to at least 2.0. Most users find that 2.1 (officially a "release candidate") is even faster and better.

[mitchell]

Thanks Per.

 

I'm not sure I asked my question very well.

 

I've been having problems with LR2 that I never had with LR. Has anyone used LR2.1, and found that it solves the problems of LR2 and doesn't create new ones.

 

Thanks,

 

MItchell

[mitchell]

I think I found the source of my LR2 woes.

 

You can't run Time Machine with LR. You have to exclude the catalogue from Time Machine.

 

Boy, wouldn't it be nice if they told you before you lost your pictures!

 

Best,

 

MItchell

[lx1jon]

Mitchell, the trick with TimeMachine and LR is to exclude the 'live' catalogue itself from TM backup. But that doesn't mean that the catalog need be unprotected. When you use LR, it recommends you let it make regular catalog backups itself. Normally these are in a folder called Backups, alongside the LR catalogue file and some other stuff all in a folder in turn called Lightroom. What I did was to make another folder (I called it, surprise, Lightroom backups) which you put anywhere convenient (and in a place which IS backed by TM) as long as it is NOT inside the Lightroom folder where the catalog is. You then tell TM NOT to backup the Lightroom folder (with the 'live' catalogue), but of course ensure it does back up your newly-created folder. In this way, as long as LR creates backups reasonably often, they in turn get backed up by TM and you're sweet.

 

Sorry if that sounds long-winded, but I set it all up in much less time than this took to type. Can't remember where I got the idea, for all I know it may have been this ever-helpful forum!

 

Jonathan

[mitchell baum]

Jonathan,

 

Thanks so much. Very helpful. I think I did it right. I put LightRoom Backups on my desk top not in Pictures with the Catalogue.

 

The forum has been so good to me this way.

 

Best,

 

Mitchell