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Catalog Backup and Restore in Lightroom

August 1, 2017August 2, 2017 Sean McCormackLeave a Comment on Catalog Backup and Restore in Lightroom

Lightroom provides an internal mechanism for backing up the catalog file, allowing you to protect your investment in editing your photos. It doesn’t provide a way of backing up photos though. Check out the video to see how to set it up, and how to replace your catalog if something happens that can’t be automatically […]

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Lightroom 5: New Catalog Settings

September 5, 2013 Sean McCormackLeave a Comment on Lightroom 5: New Catalog Settings

With the addition of Smart Previews in Lightroom 5, Lightroom got some Catalog Settings updates (PC: Edit>Catalog Settings, Mac: Lightroom>Edit Settings).   1) The first is Previews now has information on Total Size of the preview folder. If it’s large, you’ll get a spinning circle while it updates. 2) As Smart Previews get stored in […]

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One or more catalogs?

May 22, 2013May 22, 2013 Sean McCormack9 Comments on One or more catalogs?

Sara Collaton asked this question on Twitter yesterday of a number of Lightroom users. I could say experts, but it’s you guys and girls that get to decide who is or isn’t an expert! Anyway, to the topic at hand and my opinion on the matter. Lightroom can have as many catalogs as you like, […]

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Mulitple Catalog Access

May 14, 2012May 13, 2013 Sean McCormackLeave a Comment on Mulitple Catalog Access

Since Lightroom began, it’s been a one database file at time. First they were ‘Libraries’, now they’re ‘Catalogs’. In the background, they happen to be SQLite files, which are single user databases. However that shouldn’t mean that we remain stuck to one Catalog open at a time. Or for that matter be able to copy […]

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The Tech of Large Catalogs

February 20, 2011May 14, 2013 Sean McCormackLeave a Comment on The Tech of Large Catalogs

There’s always speculation about how big a Lightroom catalog can be, but there’s nothing like the words of the Engineer that works on Catalogs in Lightroom about it. Earlier on LinkedIn, Lightroom Engineer Dan Tull had some words on the matter: “There are definitely costs associated with larger catalogs. Various kinds of queries will slow […]

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Optimizing the catalog in Lightroom 3

June 10, 2010 Sean McCormack4 Comments on Optimizing the catalog in Lightroom 3

In Catalog Settings in Lightroom 2, you could ‘Relaunch and Optimize’ your catalog to help speed it up. That’s gone in Lightroom 3, so here’s what you do instead.

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Upgrading a catalog

June 8, 2010 Sean McCormack6 Comments on Upgrading a catalog

When you start Lightroom 3, it’s going to want to upgrade your catalog. Gasp! Don’t worry, it’s painless. In fact, it leaves the original catalog intact, so you don’t have to worry about it. You’ll get this dialog. If this isn’t the catalog you want, then choose the correct one using ‘Choose a Different Catalog’. […]

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Restoring a broken catalog

May 26, 2010 Sean McCormack3 Comments on Restoring a broken catalog

An oldie, but perhaps a goodie for some. Johan Attali has done a short post on using SQLite3 to fix a broken catalog. Essentially it does a file copy via sqlite3, but SQLite removes the errors on copy. For more details, check out: http://www.jjbrothers.net/blog/entry/13#add-13

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From tour to home.

July 14, 2009 Sean McCormack3 Comments on From tour to home.

As a matter of course I brought my laptop with me on my recent family trip. It gives me an opportunity to play with imagery as I travel and occasionally check stuff online. WiFi access was sparse at best, but it was good to still be able to get a little editing done while on […]

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Catalog Corruption

April 2, 2008 Sean McCormack2 Comments on Catalog Corruption

In the midst of all the Beta 2 excitement, I’ve a post on a version 1 issue. Beta 2 is not ready as a production tool so I’ve still doing my work in V1.0.I’ve finally gotten a mix of time and motivation to finish a new site for my main website, that is until Lightroom […]

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