It's not uncommon for people to leave applications open on their computers for days at a time or even longer. If it's not hurting the performance of the application you're using, then why not, right? Please don't do this with Lightroom - remember that you'll only get the prompt to back up your Lightroom catalog when [...]
Many of you know that I urge everyone to back up their photo library - photos and catalog - and all your other documents to one or more external hard drives and also to a cloud backup service. I have worked with two clients in the past week who were running Backblaze and Carbonite cloud backup [...]
Mac Users running Lightroom 6.8 or CC 2015.8: have you gone to back up your Lightroom catalog (like I tell you to!), and encountered this message that your catalog is larger than 4 GB, and that you'll need a third party utility to extract it? First, as of right now there is a bug - all [...]
I get emails from around the world from people in panic-mode over Lightroom-related issues. Some of these can be easily cured, but sadly, some are fatal. I do consulting in-person and over the web and phone/Skype, so you can always contact me to help you work through your issues (sorry, yes, that was a blatant plug), but I thought I [...]
Hi everyone, as you can well see, I haven't had a chance to post to this blog for the past month. I am helping a client with a very cool book project that I will write about soon. I thought though that I would ask YOU a question in the meantime. I have written about the [...]
Have you ever thought (as I did today) that you would burst into tears or have to break open a bottle (before noon!) if you lost Lightroom work you did or images you captured? If so, you are going too long between backups. Let’s first go back to a public library analogy for Lightroom: if the [...]
