Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/07/31

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Subject: [Leica] Lightroom 2 Ships!
From: heninger at adobe.com (Wade Heninger)
Date: Thu Jul 31 06:56:04 2008
References: <13A9A387-0178-4BCA-B63D-22E5BF635B85@adobe.com> <EC0AB7EA-F82B-44B1-99F0-755E800191A6@frozenlight.eu> <364973A8-8A1C-4C43-8444-7F3898275E11@adobe.com> <47761E6D-47A4-4FF3-9A10-3EEFD783C0AA@frozenlight.eu>

On Jul 30, 2008, at 10:18 PM, Nathan wrote:

> I have now installed the upgrade and upgraded my catalog with 7400  
> pictures without any problem. I must really commend Adobe on the  
> fact that the existing version of LR (in my case 1.4) and its  
> catalog are not touched during the upgrade, so one can go back to  
> the previous version without any problems, should something go wrong.

Yes, that is very nice.  It helps in development too..

> Both the catalog upgrade and the general use of LR2 is very fast (in  
> my case, on a 2.66 GHz iMac with 4 GB RAM). The one minor annoyance  
> is that in the Library thumbnail view, the total number of images in  
> a collection is not displayed next to the collection name if it  
> contains sub-collections. If you expand the main collection, then  
> you see the number next to the name of each sub-collection, but not  
> the overall total. I hope that gets addressed in a future update.

I'll mention it.

> Wade, is there an advantage of running LR2 in 64-bit mode? I did,  
> figuring that it certainly would not hurt. Just curious...


64 bit mode will use more memory, and use it more wisely.  4 GB of ram  
gives you a bit of extra room.

Cheers!

In reply to: Message from heninger at adobe.com (Wade Heninger) ([Leica] Lightroom 2 Ships!)
Message from photo at frozenlight.eu (Nathan) ([Leica] Lightroom 2 Ships!)
Message from heninger at adobe.com (Wade Heninger) ([Leica] Lightroom 2 Ships!)
Message from photo at frozenlight.eu (Nathan) ([Leica] Lightroom 2 Ships!)