Karen Snedker Black
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My catalogue is huge - 46+ GB. I shoot RAW, so my library is huge. I do, however, cull my photos and dump those I do not want to keep. I create Smart Previews. The photos I do post-edit and keep, I will transfer to my external drive so that at any given time, generally only my most recent shoots and Smart Previews remain, as well as iPhone photos I may have taken and downloaded.
Due to the size of my catalogue, it takes hours to backup and I am the first to admit I do not do it often enough because of this. I am using Lr 5.7 so it is not zipped.
My OS is a Mac 10.9 Maverick, 4 GB, 2 core.
The last backup I could find on my HD was February, 2016. This does not seem right.
I must mention that during the Spring I was persuaded by a friend to try using Affinity for a month or so, which is what he prefers. I was not happy with it so returned to Lr. Although I set my computer to not have Lr open, it continued to do so when I was importing my photos during that time.
About 5 days ago, I tried to optimize and backup Lightroom in the afternoon. By 11 pm it was still trying. When I woke up the next morning there was a message saying it was not successful and I think it said to try using another catalogue.
Due to catalogue sizes, I only had one backup on my HD so attempted to use it. No luck.
I have gone into file folders and tried cleaning them up within Lr (dumping photos that I had rejected, but not deleted, etc.), and with my external drive attached, tried to 'find' files. It is like Lr is no longer reading my external drive.
I have checked properties and permissions. The 'ignore ownership on this volume' box is ticked at the bottom of my external drive, as instructed in another thread.
I have had no problem opening catalogues, but now there are entire files within Lr missing, and photos not there. It is a mess.
I also had the catalog.lock issue even when Lr was not open. (I have since deleted it).
Here is my question. If push comes to shove, would it be advisable to transfer the remaining photographs not yet on my external drive so that I have all my photos safe, and then start over with a new default catalogue.
I am travelling to Europe in 12 days. I have been struggling with this for close to a week and of course, I also have last minute travel plans I need to deal with. Photography is my sweet spot. I really need to get this fixed so that I can import my photos while I am there.
Help. (Thank you).
Karen
Due to the size of my catalogue, it takes hours to backup and I am the first to admit I do not do it often enough because of this. I am using Lr 5.7 so it is not zipped.
My OS is a Mac 10.9 Maverick, 4 GB, 2 core.
The last backup I could find on my HD was February, 2016. This does not seem right.
I must mention that during the Spring I was persuaded by a friend to try using Affinity for a month or so, which is what he prefers. I was not happy with it so returned to Lr. Although I set my computer to not have Lr open, it continued to do so when I was importing my photos during that time.
About 5 days ago, I tried to optimize and backup Lightroom in the afternoon. By 11 pm it was still trying. When I woke up the next morning there was a message saying it was not successful and I think it said to try using another catalogue.
Due to catalogue sizes, I only had one backup on my HD so attempted to use it. No luck.
I have gone into file folders and tried cleaning them up within Lr (dumping photos that I had rejected, but not deleted, etc.), and with my external drive attached, tried to 'find' files. It is like Lr is no longer reading my external drive.
I have checked properties and permissions. The 'ignore ownership on this volume' box is ticked at the bottom of my external drive, as instructed in another thread.
I have had no problem opening catalogues, but now there are entire files within Lr missing, and photos not there. It is a mess.
I also had the catalog.lock issue even when Lr was not open. (I have since deleted it).
Here is my question. If push comes to shove, would it be advisable to transfer the remaining photographs not yet on my external drive so that I have all my photos safe, and then start over with a new default catalogue.
I am travelling to Europe in 12 days. I have been struggling with this for close to a week and of course, I also have last minute travel plans I need to deal with. Photography is my sweet spot. I really need to get this fixed so that I can import my photos while I am there.
Help. (Thank you).
Karen
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