Thank you for a very detailed response, Godfrey. My reply is interspersed...
1- Which metadata is "correct" depends upon your workflow and policy.
My workflow is such that the "correct" metadata is always what is in
the Lightroom catalog, not what is contained in the original image
file, because Lightroom is the only way I *add* metadata to my files.
Other applications like Photoshop can append additional metadata to
original image files a) if you edit ORIGINAL files with them and b) if
you've set the options to do so ... but I turn off all those options
and don't edit original image files with anything but Lightroom.
Since I don't edit my images anywhere else than in LR and since I also
don't have more than one LR version installed on my computer at any
time, it is yet unclear to me why LR decided that my MD was incorrect in
a way...
2- LR 3.0 crashing ... Are you running in 64-bit or 32-bit? on Windows
or Mac OS X? How much RAM is installed on your system? How large is
your catalog? How much free disk space is there on the volume where
you have the catalog file? and the original image files?
Here is the layout...
Hardware:
1. Dual core CPU (Intel 8400, if I am not mistaken)
2. 8GB RAM
3. 320 GB system disk
4. 1 TB of Linux storage (RAID-1) connected directly through a separate
NIC at 1Gbit.
Software:
1. Windows XP 64 bit configured so as to have no swap file whatsoever.
2. LR 3.0
Parameters:
1. Order of 270 GB free on system disk
2. Catalog is about 520 MB in size (approx 33,000 image files managed)
3. About 300 GB free on storage.
So it seems from what you say that it has no reasons to run unstable...
3- And, if you are having crashing problems with LR 3.0, why haven't
you installed and started working with LR 3.2 RC?
I feel hesitant to install any beta/release candidate software no matter
how loud they say it is good. Unless absolutely forced to do so, I'd
rather stay with LR 3.0 until LR 3.2 becomes a proper release, and not
just release candidate.
For still photography work, USB2 and FW400 are proving to be good
enough, and the improved USB2 performance makes the system much more
flexible as to how to organize the hardware connections. The improved
IO performance makes it almost a wash, in practical terms, as to
whether I site the Lightroom catalog on the same volume as the
original image files vs the startup drive.)
In my case, LR catalog is on internal HDD where Windows is installed and
photos are on external storage.
I am open to suggestions, as usual.
Boris
P.S. All software is properly bought and licensed.
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