Thanks, Doug. My internal and photo hard drives are backed up to two external hard drives daily, and to Backblaze every evening.
Now that I get around to reading backup info on the Lightroom site, I learn that Time Machine and LR don’t like each other very much. The most recent LR catalog backup is a month old, alas. I’ve considered replacing the catalog with a backup a last resort; my experience with other software is that such things aren’t at all simple. Rick > On May 3, 2020, at 11:29 AM, Doug Brewer <d...@dougbrewerphoto.com> wrote: > > How often do you back up your catalog, Rick? Perhaps returning to a recent > save or rebuilding it is the answer. > > > > On 5/3/20 8:59 AM, Rick Womer wrote: >> Nope. >> Checking to see if there was a focus problem, I did a LR search for photos >> taken with my 40/2.8. It searched for maybe 20 seconds and froze. I quit LR >> via the Actvity Monitor, re-started, and tings were screwed up. >> On Sun, May 3, 2020 at 08:15 David J Brooks <pentko...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> Rick >>> >>> Did yu move any files on your HD?? >>> >>> Dave >>> >>> On Sat, May 2, 2020 at 1:25 PM Rick Womer <rickpic...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> Yesterday afternoon, I was going through photos in Lightroom, looking for >>>> candidates for future PUGs. >>>> >>>> Strange things began to happen: Photos being replaced by blank squares in >>>> Grid view, whole years of pix disappearing in the Library column, and >>>> things changing from one minute to the next. >>>> >>>> So I quit LR, re-started it, and the images came back in the grid, but >>>> most of the folders in the Library were screwed up. I have a folder for >>>> each year (since 2005), with subfolders for months and sub-sub-folders >>> for >>>> shoots within that month. All of the years say zero photos; some of the >>>> months seem accurate; but some have completely wrong numbers (e.g. >>> 2010-11 >>>> says 8 photos; but there are actually 1182 in 3 shoots). >>>> >>>> I’ve run Disk Utility on everything, and shut everything down and >>>> re-started twice. Things are still flaky. >>>> >>>> Thoughts? >>>> >>>> Rick >>>> -- >>>> 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. >>>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Documenting Life in Rural Ontario. >>> www.caughtinmotion.com >>> http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ >>> York Region, Ontario, Canada >>> -- >>> 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. >>> > > -- > 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. -- 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.
