I don't know that he does need all that, but if I was worried about possibly
screwing up my system I'd want a backup from which to restore it to the state it
was in before I began mucking about with it.
And if I was worried about corrupting data that I had saved, I'd make a copy of
that data before taking the chance.
He may not need that, but he may want it.
On 12/22/2018 18:59:32, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote:
I really don't see why you're thinking Rick needs a hard drive, a massive
copy of his system to another drive, or anything like that. The Lightroom
executable, or perhaps just its preferences files, has become damaged.
Uninstalling it and installing a fresh copy should fix it just fine without
all that palaver.
That is a thought, Rick: preferences…
Lightroom stores its preferences in a .plist file at:
~/Library/Preferences/com.adobe.Lightroom6.plist You can use the Finder's "Go
> Go to folder…" command, input that, and it will take you right there. It's
possible that when the app got the news from Adobe that the Maps module was
no longer accessible, it tried to write that file and messed it up. If you
just delete that file, Lightroom will recreate it and should run properly at
its new-install defaults. You'll have to recreate your app preferences
settings.
It's worth a shot, and is otherwise non-destructive. Just move the one that's
there to the Desktop, start Lightroom, and see what happens. A new file will
be created, and LR should run correctly but without whatever customizations
you've set up. If it doesn't, just move the old one back.
G
On Dec 22, 2018, at 2:13 PM, Larry Colen <l...@red4est.com> wrote:
Rick Womer wrote on 12/22/18 2:07 PM:
Thanks much, Godfrey. I’ll give it a try (post Xmas) and let you know how
it goes.
I don't know how big your hard drive is, but with external drives down
under $40/TB this might be a good time to buy an external drive and copy
your applications folder, your home folder, raw files and catalogs to it.
If you were completely insane, you could just put a new internal drive in
your computer, get an external case for your old drive, and just do a
completely clean install of OS, apps, etc. and then copy your data over to
the new machine and use your current drive as a complete backup. Once the
dust settles, keep it at a friends house as a offsite backup.
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