Re: I don't understand...still...

2018-12-26 Thread Rick Womer
Huzzah! Deleting the p-list seems to have done the trick. I now have the correct tallies of photos, and my keywords are back! Thanks very much Godfrey, and all the others who chimed in. Rick > On Dec 22, 2018, at 6:59 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: > > I really don't see why you're thinking

Re: I don't understand...still...

2018-12-23 Thread Ken Waller
Even dealing with the Kodak Labs in Fair Lawn was more fun dealing with these computer problems. YO MARK! Kenneth Waller http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/kennethwaller - Original Message - From: "Rick Womer" Subject: Re: I don't understand...still... Today I

Re: I don't understand...still...

2018-12-23 Thread P. J. Alling
I was wondering about that, I never got the impression that Rick was particularly wide... On 12/22/2018 11:16 PM, Larry Colen wrote: Damn! That was an unfortunate autocorrect.. It was supposed to be that Rick is as *wise* as he is good looking. l...@red4est.com wrote on 12/22/18 7:12 PM:

Re: I don't understand...still...

2018-12-23 Thread Bob W-PDML
The original is better, and deserving of Mark!'s attention > On 23 Dec 2018, at 06:04, John wrote: > > Yeah sure. Blame it on autocorrect. > >> On 12/22/2018 23:16:35, Larry Colen wrote: >> Damn! That was an unfortunate autocorrect.. >> It was supposed to be that Rick is as *wise* as he is

Re: I don't understand...still...

2018-12-22 Thread John
Yeah sure. Blame it on autocorrect. On 12/22/2018 23:16:35, Larry Colen wrote: Damn! That was an unfortunate autocorrect.. It was supposed to be that Rick is as *wise* as he is good looking. l...@red4est.com wrote on 12/22/18 7:12 PM: Rick, it sounds like you're as wide as you are good

Re: I don't understand...still...

2018-12-22 Thread John
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

Re: I don't understand...still...

2018-12-22 Thread Larry Colen
Damn! That was an unfortunate autocorrect.. It was supposed to be that Rick is as *wise* as he is good looking. l...@red4est.com wrote on 12/22/18 7:12 PM: Rick, it sounds like you're as wide as you are good looking. On December 22, 2018 6:16:56 PM PST, Rick Womer wrote: Godders, the plist

Re: I don't understand...still...

2018-12-22 Thread lrc
Rick, it sounds like you're as wide as you are good looking. On December 22, 2018 6:16:56 PM PST, Rick Womer wrote: >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

Re: I don't understand...still...

2018-12-22 Thread Rick Womer
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

Re: I don't understand...still...

2018-12-22 Thread Larry Colen
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

Re: I don't understand...still...

2018-12-22 Thread Godfrey DiGiorgi
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

Re: I don't understand...still...

2018-12-22 Thread Larry Colen
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

Re: I don't understand...still...

2018-12-22 Thread Rick Womer
Thanks much, Godfrey. I’ll give it a try (post Xmas) and let you know how it goes. Rick > On Dec 22, 2018, at 4:38 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: > > Again: your image files are all there, right? :-) > > The Lightroom application executable is independent of the catalog (.LRCAT) > file. I'd

Re: I don't understand...still...

2018-12-22 Thread Godfrey DiGiorgi
Again: your image files are all there, right? :-) The Lightroom application executable is independent of the catalog (.LRCAT) file. I'd uninstall LR6 and then install it afresh. It sounds like something has trashed the Lightroom application itself. Install LR fresh after uninstalling the

Re: I don't understand...still...

2018-12-22 Thread John
Could you do an image backup of your hard drive right now before doing whatever you have to do to decompress the older backup? Maybe make a copy of the older backup and decompress from that. That way you'd have the status quo ante to return to if it somehow screws up Lightroom and/or you

Re: I don't understand...still...

2018-12-22 Thread Rick Womer
Today I restarted the computer again, running fsck in the Unix shell on the way. No problems. Since the image counts and keywords are missing even in almost-2-year-old copies of the catalog, it seems it must be a mutation in Lightroom itself. My backups include LR6. Would I be inviting further

Re: I don't understand...still...

2018-12-21 Thread Rick Womer
Well, I just went into my extensive backups and opened several .LRCAT files going back to Feb 2017. They don’t show the numbers of photos in the folders, and they don’t have visible or searchable keywords. I’m utterly flummoxed. Any other suggestions? Rick > On Dec 21, 2018, at 6:18 PM,