Godders, the plist idea is great. I’ve had those things cause trouble
before.
Larry, I have a 500 gb SDD in the computer. My photos are on a 2 tb
external. I have Time Machine backups to a 4 tb drive and a 2 tb, and
to
Backblaze.
Cyber-distrustful? Me???
Rick
On Sat, Dec 22
Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote on 12/22/18 3:59 PM:
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.
I don't think that he needs to. I think that it is a fairly low cost
way to simultaneously attack the problem and give him a comprehensive
backup of his system, and possibly upgrade his computer's hard drive
before it fails. It's one of those tasks that depending on how you
do
it could only take a little of interactive time, while letting the
computer churn for hours in the background.
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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