Now, that we're talking about this. I've a question of my own. Is there a way to completely disable this 1:1 preview cache? I am willing to suffer from the time it would be necessary to build (temporary) preview files every time I open a picture.
Thanks. On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 10:14 AM, mike wilson <m.9.wil...@ntlworld.com> wrote: > Charles Robinson wrote: > >> Last year (2008) I totally screwed up and lost (yes, lost) a whole month's >> worth of images due to inconsistencies in my backup process. >> >> I realized just recently that all of the 1:1 previews from May of 2008 are >> still in my Lightroom database (despite a setting which says to remove them >> after a month!). > > Glad that this worked out for you but it demonstrates cleary what I loathe > about Adobe products. Why should this programme _duplicate_ the full image > file? Utter bloatware behaviour. > > >> >> Which brings me to this question: >> >> Is there a way to get that image data (which exists in the previews) >> exported somehow? I know that doing a regular LR export, it will want to >> see the source files (which don't exist).. so it might be tricky. >> >> Going off to Google now, but if anyone has suggestions/ideas, I'm all >> ears. This "missing month" includes all of the photos I took for my >> daughter's wedding - otherwise I'd just let it go. >> >> Well now. I just downloaded (free!) a utility which can browse your >> catalog, and export images from 1:1 previews that you still have. >> Fantastic. >> It's called LRViewer. http://imageingester.com/index.php >> >> So, question answered. And if anyone else finds themselves in a pinch, >> this is a useful utility for not only that, but any time you want to browse >> your library without all the overhead of running Lightroom. Hooray! > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > -- Boris -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
