lightroom oddness

[Combat squirrel]

Hi all, iv been editing some wedding photos for a couple of weeks now, and I clicked on one photos flag in the top left corner while browsing through my flagged sets and it lost all the flags, gone, and cannot undo , its retained the edits and stuff iv done now iv got to go back through all 1200+ photos and reflag them any idea what happened here ?

 

[robertgilbert86]

You must have had them all selected or something but you should have been able to undo the action immediately afterwards...

 

[Combat squirrel]

yeah that would make sense actually, but I couldnt undo it after

 

[Combat squirrel]

One more question, if I was to format my pc and start again (mac), how would I save all of lightrooms settings + any work im currently doing (or does it save it on the 'raw file') ?

 

[xolotl]

Backup the .lrcat file. This has all your settings saved in it and lightroom should promt you to backup every so often when you start it.

 

[slothmeister]

but you would need to back-up all your photo's aswell, photo's are not stored in the .lrcat file.

 

[ScarySquirrel]

Does anyone ever have the right click functionality in the develop module stop working after using Lightroom for about 30 mins plus? I have to quit and then start the programme up again to use it

 

[D.P.]

What if your file path to the photos changes.
E.g., I want to shift all my photos to a new hard disk, how will light room cope????
Does the lrcat file use URLS from the base directory or from home?

 

[xolotl]

What if your file path to the photos changes.
E.g., I want to shift all my photos to a new hard disk, how will light room cope????
Does the lrcat file use URLS from the base directory or from home?

I'm pretty sure it just goes on file names. You'll have to point it to the new drive/folder but it should work fine. That's what happened for me but I kept the folder structure intact apart from it being on a different drive.

but you would need to back-up all your photo's aswell, photo's are not stored in the .lrcat file.

If someone is foolish enough to think a 100mb file has all their original photos stored in then perhaps they deserve to lose them all.

 

[robertgilbert86]

When I put a new OS on I just copied the LR settings from 'My Pictures' and 'Documents and Settings' over, no import dialogue, it just left off from where I started (leaving all the photos in the same drive (letter) and directories. Not sure if you can do that on Macs but it's worth a look.

That technique works great for iTunes too

 

[Messiah Khan]

What if your file path to the photos changes.
E.g., I want to shift all my photos to a new hard disk, how will light room cope????
Does the lrcat file use URLS from the base directory or from home?

It will be unable to find you files. but you just go to the directory listing on the left hand side of lightroom, and tell it where they have moved to. Im not sure if it uses relative or absolute addresses, but either way it is easy to move stuff around.

 

[D.P.]

It will be unable to find you files. but you just go to the directory listing on the left hand side of lightroom, and tell it where they have moved to. Im not sure if it uses relative or absolute addresses, but either way it is easy to move stuff around.

Thanks