Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/12/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]When I had problems, it was only LR that froze with the "spinning beach ball". And that was back at 1.0 or 1.1. Perhaps it is fixed now, or perhaps I just don't overload it as much and then shut it down. In any case, I've had no problems using external drives on the laptop with LR and it hasn't crashed on me in several months. Allen On Dec 26, 2007 1:36 PM, Daniel Ridings <dlridings@gmail.com> wrote: > I did like Michiel suggested and restarted my laptop. > > I froze up again today, but I didn't loose anything today either after > rebooting. > > I was wondering if a Mac had similar problems. I was perfectly willing > to chalk it up to the operating system (XP). > > I'm kind of afraid of mounting my external disk from my desktop on my > laptop, even though I need to. I have too much on it to take any > chances. I'll just have to sit in front of the desktop and work, I > guess. > > Thanks Allen. > > Daniel > > On Dec 25, 2007 5:24 PM, Allen Graves <allen.graves@charter.net> wrote: > > I use Lightroom on a Mac. The times I have gotten into trouble seem to > be > > related to the fact that I didn't realize how much processing LR does in > the > > background. I would shut it down when I finished what I was doing, > restart > > it later do more editing, shut it down, etc. until it froze.This was > mostly > > when I was importing a lot of old folders of photos to "load up" the > > library. I think I just overloaded it a couple of times with old and new > > tasks,and the dumbest part of this behavior is that it doesn't really > tell > > you what it is doing. I have not had this problem on a desktop if I just > > leave LR open and walk away when I'm done. I have to admit that I'm > using it > > less and less on my laptop. > > Allen > > > > > > On Dec 25, 2007 4:19 AM, Gerry Walden <gwpics@googlemail.com> wrote: > > > > > I would be interested to know how much of your 2gb memory LR is using. > > > If you go to 'Help' on the LR screen, and then 'System Info' there is > > > a line there that says something like 'Memory available to LR' and, > > > despite having 2gb RAM, mine is at 716mb. I cannot find out how to > > > increase that figure! > > > > > > Gerry > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > Gerry Walden LRPS > > > Web: www.gwpics.com > > > Stock: www.stockuk.co.uk > > > Tel: +44 (0)23 8046 3076 > > > Skype: gerry.walden (uk) > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Leica Users Group. > > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Leica Users Group. > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >