Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/11/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]It is nice and handy under LR 3: File -> Optimize catalogue ... Well worth the upgrade. So far all of Adobe's versions have been worth it. Nice. Daniel On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 12:47 PM, Tina Manley <images at comporium.net> wrote: > I think in 2.5 it is under Edit > Catalog Preferences. ?Then when you go to > Preferences it is in the middle of the page - optimize catalog. ?If you > haven't optimized it, that is definitely the problem with ?your slowness. > ?Optimizing makes a huge difference and you should do it at least once a > week. ?You really should upgrade to 3.0, though. ?It has lots of great > features. > > Tina > > On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 5:34 AM, Peter Cheyne <geordiepete211 at > yahoo.co.uk>wrote: > >> Thanks for all the tips. ?I ran the Crucial downloadable scanner. ?It said >> my max. memory capacity = 3072 MB. ?I have 2 GB in there now, and that: >> Although the memory can be installed one module at a time, the best >> performance comes from using matched pairs of modules.Maximum memory is >> reached by using one 2GB SODIMM and one 1GB SODIMM. >> >> I find this contradictory, so I'm still confused. ?I think I should get >> two >> 2 GB sticks to keep best performance. ?Crucial's scanner says that, yet >> the >> next thing it says is that I should get a 2 GB stick for one slot and >> keep a >> 1 GB stick in the other slot. ?Does anyone understand this and is able to >> recommend which would be faster, the 3 GB set or the 4 GB? >> >> >> My 9000 image catalogue is on a 460 GB external drive with 100 GB spare. >> ?My 9000 image catalogue seems pretty small compared to the sizes of some >> LUGgers catalogues. ?I guess it's about time to buy another external HDD >> and >> try to run them together. ?I suppose that means daisy chaining them. >> >> As for the recommendation of optimizing my Lightroom catalogue, I can't >> find where to do that. ?I use Lightroom 2.5. ?I go to Lightroom > File but >> can't see any optimize option. >> >> I'll run Disk utility on my internal and external drives, but I do this >> *fairly* often anyway. >> >> Peter Cheyne >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> > > > -- > Tina Manley, ASMP > www.tinamanley.com > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >