You're welcome, Tim. Performance on Windows XP/PC hardware is often also compromised by the lack of the SSE2 instruction set, and at least one person on this photo.net thread (last posting) reported a big improvement in performance when he upped his RAM from 1G to 2G:
<http://www.photo.net/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=00K713&tag=> I don't know much about how or why Windows XP monitors the "My Documents" directory tree, can't really say anything further about that. For my purposes, I am working with the default library created originally by the beta release version in the original location, but I pruned a lot out of it and am rebuilding my Lightroom environment more systematically now in an alternative location. A comment by another person with more experience than I have incited me to consider doing this ... the ~/Pictures directory is used by a lot of Mac OS X system and user applications for their default storage space with photos, so he suggested protecting my work in Lightroom and Photoshop by moving my photos to their own independent directory. So I've created the ~/Photos directory now and have moved all my year by year photography folders from ~/Pictures to that location, reset my backup software to use the right source destination. The same kind of thinking is probably valuable in the Windows XP environment. Godfrey On Feb 27, 2007, at 10:48 AM, Tim Øsleby wrote: > You're the man G :-) > > You may have saved me a lot of trouble here (and the money for a > dedicated > machine). This may be the solution for my problems too. I'll check and > report back. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
