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Subject: [Leica] Help !! Lightroom 2 problem
From: douglas.sharp at gmx.de (Douglas Sharp)
Date: Wed Feb 4 01:32:12 2009
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It does respond to killing via the task manager or by clicking on the X 
at the top right - it just takes ages to go away.

Douglas

Daniel Ridings wrote:
> Aha! I see a pattern.
>
> Lightroom will start once (one time) after a reboot.
>
> It seems to work as long as it has been started that one time.
>
> If I exit, and do other things and then try and start it again, it
> goes into an infinite loop.
>
> If I reboot, I can start it (once) again.
>
> I still feel there is something about java.exe being the culprit. When
> I tried to reboot (which was difficult, since Lightroom doesn't
> respond to attempts to kill it off) I get a quick message about
> java.exe not being able to initialize its dll and then the machine
> reboots.
>
> Daniel
>
>
> On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 9:54 AM, Daniel Ridings <dlridings@gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> Oh, it's fast enough. It is just running around in circles (that is,
>> it has gone into an infinite loop, hogging the CPU, but never letting
>> me do anything).
>>
>> The Task manager says "it is not responding". Well, I kind of knew that.
>>
>> I think I have CS3 on this laptop too, so I'm not without backup, but
>> I've been pretty happy with Lightroom on my desktop and kind of looked
>> forward to using it on the road. Not going to happen.
>>
>> Best,
>> Daniel
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 9:50 AM, Gerry Walden <gerry.walden@me.com> wrote:
>>     
>>> LR 2.3 release candidate is out there now, and I just wonder if that has
>>> addressed some of the speed issues. I haven't tried it yet but I am
>>> beginning to look at Aperture because LR is so damn slow at times (and I
>>> have just moved from PC to Imac to try and get it better!)
>>>
>>> Gerry
>>>
>>> Gerry Walden
>>> +44 (0)23 8046 3076
>>> www.gerrywalden.co.uk
>>> www.stockuk.co.uk
>>>
>>> On 4 Feb 2009, at 08:31, Daniel Ridings wrote:
>>>
>>>       
>>>> Update:
>>>>
>>>> I had been running Lightroom v1 on my laptop. I decided to upgrade to
>>>> LR 2 before I left for Malawi. LR 2 runs just fine, but when I opted
>>>> to update to 2.2, bam, locked up and wouldn't even let itself be
>>>> killed off using the task manager. I had to reboot the machine.
>>>>
>>>> Needless to say, I uninstalled 2.2 and upgraded back up to 2.0. I'm
>>>> staying with that. It works just fine and I can live with the "issues"
>>>> introduced by 2.0 better than I can live with the "issues" introduced
>>>> by 2.2 :-) Version 2 is running just fine the way it is.
>>>>
>>>> I think I'll pass on 2.2 on my desktop.
>>>>
>>>> Daniel
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>         
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