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Kev M
21-08-2007, 15:59
I'm trying to merge an 8MB Lightroom Catalogue on my external drive with the much larger one on my PC. Does anyone know how to do CPR on a PC I think it's gonig to die on me.:bang:

And I thought firewire would speed things up too.:bonk:
Ross
21-08-2007, 16:15
Firewire will speed up disk to disk activity (ie copying files) but it's RAM and CPU speed that will have most affect on this type of work
Woodsy
21-08-2007, 21:47
If it's USB 2 then It'll be faster than Firewire anyway. However after learning how both firewire and USB work, as in the actual data transfere protocols, it's a wonder how they work so well! As correctly said though, it's RAM and CPU speed that will be the bottle neck here :)
Woodsy
21-08-2007, 21:59
Sorry, double post. please delete :)
Kev M
21-08-2007, 23:12
Even worse. I've finally got all my photos on one drive and in one catalogue, deleted the photos from the old drive and when I go to the develop module it won't open a single photo. says it can't for some reason.
Ross
22-08-2007, 11:29
Oh dear. I hope you haven't deleted the old photos for good because all lightroom does is index them from their original locations.

Nurse - undelete software required - STAT!
Kev M
22-08-2007, 11:38
Just when I thought I was out of the woods lightroom has died altogether. I finally got it working last night by starting a new catalogue and reloading all the photos into it one year at a time. Everything was working fine. I then decided to cleanup the computer by doing a de-frag, running the registry cleaner and using the disk clean up tool. Now eveytime LR opens it has to close again giving me this screen.

http://www.talkphotography.co.uk/gallery/data/500/lr-prob1.jpg

It's not normally white screen likie that it just happened that one time. I've uninstalled LR and re-installed it and it has made no difference. I also re-instated the previous registry just in case and it didn't help either.

What now?
Ross
22-08-2007, 12:03
Create a new user account (right click My Computer>Manage>Local Users and Groups>Users)

Login with the new user account, start Lightroom. Does the error still occur?
Kev M
22-08-2007, 12:14
Cheers for the help Evilowl. Before I found your post I thought I'd see if Adobe could be any help. Went through their fault finding, renamed the preferences file which then forces LR to create a new one on start and robert's your mother's brother I'm back in business.
Ross
22-08-2007, 12:34
That was going to be my next recommendation depending on the result of the new profile

Glad you sorted anyway...