Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/12/09

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Subject: [Leica] Re: Lightroom freeze over WAS IMG: PAW 47 and 48 dlridings
From: dlridings at gmail.com (Daniel Ridings)
Date: Sun Dec 9 10:09:27 2007
References: <a2f8f4470712082239n33630719tdb2b84be4ce5151d@mail.gmail.com> <a2f8f4470712082247w66a63c93tec98a4f69f6afeaa@mail.gmail.com> <200712091756.AHM25731@rg4.comporium.net>

Thanks Tina,

I narrowed it down to _not_ converting NEF-files (Nikon's raw-format)
to DNG. I _usually_ do, but this time I didn't.

My version of Photoshop (PS 8) can't edit DNG files, but it can edit
NEF-files so I wanted to leave the door open this time. Bad move.

LightRoom seems to really require DNG.

Now ... it didn't matter all that much. The problem was on my laptop,
where I just off-load files and work with them while I'm travelling. I
never have anything permanent on my laptop.

So after re-installing with the "repair" option, uninstalling and
reinstalling from scratch, rebooting and all the other tricks ... I
just trashed my archive and re-imported, this time letting Lightroom
convert NEF to DNG, and everything went ok.

Trashing my archive wasn't as drastic as it sounds. I had all of the
files somewhere else and the laptop is not a production machine, so I
didn't loose anything.

I don't like LIghtroom because you 1) sharpen first and then 2) resize
... DUH ... Doesn't Adobe care about quality?

Otherwise it works well. I've never had a problem with my desktop, but
then again, I've always let Lightroom convert to DNG. If I ever have
to trash that archive, I'll dump Lightroom as fast as I can.

Thanks for your suggestion. I might check the forums later.

Daniel


On Dec 9, 2007 6:56 PM, Tina Manley <images@comporium.net> wrote:
> At 01:47 AM 12/9/2007, you wrote:
>
> >This is one piece of software that sucks.
> >
> >Daniel
>
> I love Lightroom and couldn't do without it now.  Something must be
> wrong with your version.  Maybe look it up in their forums?
>
> Tina
>
> Tina Manley
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> http://www.tinamanley.com
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Replies: Reply from jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj) ([Leica] Re: Lightroom freeze over WAS IMG: PAW 47 and 48 dlridings)
In reply to: Message from dlridings at gmail.com (Daniel Ridings) ([Leica] Lightroom freeze over WAS IMG: PAW 47 and 48 dlridings)
Message from dlridings at gmail.com (Daniel Ridings) ([Leica] Re: Lightroom freeze over WAS IMG: PAW 47 and 48 dlridings)
Message from images at comporium.net (Tina Manley) ([Leica] Re: Lightroom freeze over WAS IMG: PAW 47 and 48 dlridings)