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    LR Classic CC - Any happy campers?

    I haven't done an import since upgrading to Lightroom Classic CC 7.1, but I can report that editing images in Photoshop is much snappier. I select some TIFFs and type cmd-E and nearly instantaneously the "What to Edit" dialog comes up. A welcome improvement.
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    Upgrading to LR Classic

    Johan, I feel that this is a needless discussion, that we are stating the obvious from two different points of view. If you change the "select/reject" button that won't be saved. If you don't have "Include Develop settings in metadata in JPEG, TIFF, PNG and PSD files" set, those changes won't...
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    Upgrading to LR Classic

    Yes, exactly, and if you do go back, then any changes in the new catalog (except for metadata, if you are set up to write metadata) are gone if you revert to your old catalog. I saw reference to another discussion where people were complaining that Adobe does not make the "keep my old version of...
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    Photoshop CC - Anyone upgraded?

    I have found a "stops me dead in my tracks" bug in Photoshop CC 2018. However, I have posted the bug at Adobe's Feedback site, and exactly zero people have said "me too." On the other hand, no one has said "you are an idiot" either (in regard to this issue!).
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    Upgrading to LR Classic

    Well, I would think about the improvements (see Victoria's post) and whether they are relevant to your needs. If not, I'd just stay with with the previous version for a while — better the devil you know. That said, I have upgraded one of my three databases and have had zero problems. The issue...
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    LR Classic CC - Any happy campers?

    Hi Victoria Are the bugs introduced by the new version of Lightroom Classic being posted publicly anywhere? I just saw on Adobe's feedback site an acknowledged bug about reimporting exported images. I have upgraded (without really thinking about it) one of my databases, but since the upgrade...
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    Multiple catalogs on different computers...it's a mess.

    1) Get Victoria's book 2) Put only your most recent photos into a catalog and get them organized 3) You can merge other photos or catalogs into this catalog later There is an idea in native plant restoration (bear with me, here) called "The Bradley method of restoration." You start with the...
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    Publishing photos

    Hi I am working on a book of photos (a color plant field guide). I actually have a publisher (all praise to the creator and my co-author), but have lots of questions about the process, and I certainly want to avoid any obvious mistakes. Do you have a favorite reference on going from digital to...
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    Can i designate one main disk in RAID 1 configuration?

    Be sure you have off-site backups (or cloud backups) as well. I maintain 2 off-site backups for most files, and 3 for some, but then I live in earthquake territory.
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    Cleaning Up File Mess

    I love Jeffrey's Data Explorer plugin to try to untangle photo curation problems. You can use multiple criteria to put photos into collections and then assign keywords or move to folders from there. Any Filter allows live criteria, which is also often useful to maintain a system, but for first...
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    Managing derived files -- best practices?

    All good thoughts, and I thank each of you. I find it ironic that John Beardsworth finds it difficult to enforce naming conventions when his Syncomatic plugin uses naming conventions for some of its operations. I don't use stacks because (a) I am always confused the moment I try to use them...
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    Managing derived files -- best practices?

    There are so many places where I want to manage "derived files" — raw + edited TIFFs, edited TIFFs + jpegs for posting, edited TIFFs + reduced TIFFs for faster previewing (or previewing in different color spaces). And this is just the 1:1 case. There are also the many:1 cases, like raw files...
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    LR/MOGRIFY "Fail to run Exiftool..."

    Well, I just installed LR/Mogrify 2 (v. 4.48 dated November 2012), and on my first export with Lightroom CC 2015.10 on Macintosh, I got the same error error as Michelle did a couple of years ago. The error log says "mogrify: UnableToOpenConfigureFile `colors.xml'." I am going to try installing...
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    How to maintain virtual copies easily

    I thought it was a common database problem in which the cost of maintaining an index increases the cost of each delete operation. But I got an email from an Adobe saying that the problem is deeper in the code. John Beardsworth has suggested that Abobe chose a N-squared algorithm, and that...
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    Advice on iMac Purchase

    Thank you, Cletus, for a pleasant response to my comment*. All I can say is that I used to see performance like you describe, and I no longer do. I suspect (given the behavior I see with one computer with a fusion drive and two with SSDs) that components that various programs need get orphaned...
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    Advice on iMac Purchase

    Johan, I was trying to be helpful to the original poster. I know that fusion drives have spinning disks as part of their mechanism. That is why they are called 'fusion' drives. Hence my point about avoiding them if possible. And I know about that switch too--but it only partially solves the problem.
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    How to maintain virtual copies easily

    I have been dealing with serious slowdowns with my Lightroom Catalog (literally, the catalog becomes 60x slower than it was before). I have been having conversations with Adobe staff, and I hope that they will figure this out. I thought I could solve this problem by exporting the catalog and...
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    Advice on iMac Purchase

    I am having lots of problems with the fusion drive -- programs "hang" for 30 seconds waiting for the disk to spin up. If I had it to do over again, and if $$$ were a priority, I would get a 256GB SSD and a 1+ TB external drive, and put the majority of my user files on the external drive. I have...
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    How to sort scanned photos by date in Lightroom

    I know it is bad etiquette to follow up one's own post, but, just as a head's up to anyone else who is trying to get these various date fields correct for some scanned slides, here is my experience. I had a bunch of scanned slides (I have now processed about 500 of them), in which the IPTC Date...
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    2 & 3TB hard drives maxed out

    I feel that unless you are doing something that is important enough to be archived (something that someone else will use in the future), archiving is a false promise to yourself. If you don't confirm that the images are available every few years, then the media will die and you'll never be aware...
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    How to sort scanned photos by date in Lightroom

    Hi I just spent some time trying to figure out why my scanned photos don't sort by date, and I think I understand it more or less. I searched through this forum to see if this question had been answered before, and I don't think so, although obviously many people understand the issue already...
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    Help with custom metadata

    Thanks Tim. I have most of Jeffrey Friedl's plugins but not that one, but I'm not sure it helps when I already have his Custom Metadata Presets. I think I could develop a script in bash that scans the Instructions field and then sets various keywords, and then sort on keywords in Lightroom and...
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    Help with custom metadata

    Hi I have some custom metadata in my database, and I would like to fill it out using text in the Instructions IPTC field. For instance the Instructions might be: Format: Positive 4x5 Film: Fuji RVP 100 Focal Length: 58 Exposure Time: .5 F Stop: 19 Filter: CF2 Push/Pull: 0.00 And I have the...
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