Thank you Jon.  You are correct the files have the name of the developer and his email.  Interesting they may have originated from DW and there does not seem to be any comments about removing them within DW.  The SYNC tool should offer an option to deal with files deleted and it does not seem to do this. I once developed ICs and keeping track with who was in a Verilog or other code database was very important. Less so here it seems. It did feel strange when the fellows name came up when he passed away several years ago. I guess DW knew how to get the name out of the file and use it. Thanks for your posting. ... View more

It turns out the site was not using Wordpress at all. There is almost no data in the SMB database also. Aparently, other packages can create LCK files or it was created on another system and dropped in.  Anyone reading this thread should be carefull with the advice provided here.    Removing the LCK has caused no problems to date so I think we will not be adding them back in at this point. I manually removed the files. I see now the CPannel has an ability to allow ssh connections. By doing this one could make a connection via ssh and then remove LCK or other files using linux commands.  This will depend on your web host provider though.   Bob ... View more

Hi Nancy, Thanks for being so persistent. I will assume you know what you are talking about and work with Wordpress. I can put the LCK files back with a simple script or just roll back to a previous backup. It will be interesting to learn how to replace the lock files from the guy that died in 2019 and add LCK files to all the files that have been created since if they are needed. This statement: "Owing to how WP works, there are no real pages to edit in Dreamweaver. WordPress pages are assembled on the fly by the server with PHP scripts and content stored in the MySQL database. " This statement was helpful to me. Really we have only been editing the PHP files so this is why we have not gotten into any real trouble. Not about to make any real serious changes to structure of the site. Just maintain it going forward. I did get the feedback I was looking for here. Sleep well, and thanks again. Bob ... View more

Thanks for your comments and feedback… Nancy: This site has been around over 10 years and the sftp download is almost 3GB. Also, this is a non profit organization so nobody paying for the work. Not a good idea to start over at this point just keep hacking and fixing with incremental improvements. One or more of the people which may help maintain the Web page know Wordpress and I know Dreamweaver as a novice. Don’t really want to add Wordpress to my system because I feel Dreamweaver is a better product. LCK file does not seem to be much security. I have been able to just write over the files with any changes I wanted with a warning from Dreamweaver. Seems only security is having the login cridentials. I have made full backups of everything and others have as well so we can go backwards if needed. I decided to just walk through most of the folders and hand delete the LCK files which I have done. No negative issues seen so far. I am sure there are snakes in the bushes though. Anyway thanks for your feedback a lot. ... View more

Based on you comments I would say you are fine with cloud-based Lightroom. You can do the things you want to do with that Program.  You need to spend the time to learn how to use the program and get what you want out of it.   I suggest you spend some time on Julie Ann Kost blog, https://blogs.adobe.com/jkost/. She has lots of good you-tube stuff showing you how to do things. There are others as well, consider signing up for Lynda.com for a few months and take a few classes. I have done this and watch them while at the Gym.   Keep backing up your RAW files locally until you are very comfortable with the cloud. Then I would still make backups pulling the images from the cloud later in case they have a disaster. However, if you are paying for the space let them do most of the work for you. Saves you the cost of more drives and some time.   You will be able to work on all images with multiple devices using the cloud Lightroom CC. You may have some issue with the speed of your internet connection but you will have to just see how that works out.   If you were generating a lot of images the local version of Lightroom would be better but I think you are the customer Adobe is targeting. I also feel, with some work, you could switch to local later if you found you did not like the cloud version.     ... View more

This is a topic you should study and carfully pick the best option for your workflow.   I have been working through some issues on my storage and have come to realize several issues with the versions of Lightroom.   If you move to the Cloud you will have to deal with the time it takes to move your files back and forth. You can only work with the Cloud when you have an internet connection. There is a fee of about $10/TB/month of data you place on the cloud. I assume 1.2TB would cost you $20 per month. In theory the idea is the Cloud takes the burden of keeping your files safe and backing them up for you. There are ways you/they can screw this up though.   If you start to move files around best to do this inside of Lightroom.  Stay with the version you are currently using until you feel like you have everything stable and backed up. There are issues as you move from version to version of Lightroom.   If you keep files local keep your files in one place and have a backup routine for the files. Adobe is indicating you must use a drive connected to computer (MAC) and not a NAS or network drive.  This is a problem for people that have large amounts of files and multiple devices that need access.  There can also be issues when if you have a disaster and have to restore files. The Lightroom catalog may not consider your resoted files to be the same files you lost. When you restore files you may also not restore your Lightroom edits.   I am not telling you how to do this just some of the issues I have seen. At a minumum I would keep a good copy of all files locally so I could work with them without Lightroom if necessary or rebuild the lightroom catalog.   A good external drive to consider is a Segate SRDONF2 which is a 10 TB drive but you can get smaller and larger. The cost is about $20/TB.  If you attach this to your MAC Segate supplies software to format the MAC for Catalina. Have not done this but I think Lightroom would support it bacause it is on your MAC. I have used this drive as a shared drive on Ubuntu 18.04 and then worked on my MAC using Lightroom 9.1. Seems to be working fine but I have seen warnings about possible problems. I have a Lab with a printer that uses a Windows 10 computer and need to access files from there also so I really need NAS type drive. I also know a lot about MAC, Windows and Linux so dont do this type of thing unless you feel good about it.   I know Adobe really wants the revenue from the cloud service and I feel there are issues with the Clasic system that will continue to evolve. People that have lots of files and generate files at a fast rate (Pros) will have issues with the cloud. File sizes for each shot are increasing also. I shot with a Hasselblad and the files are about 300mb each. Makes using the cloud a problem.  Cloud will work for people shoting photos on a phone.   I am posting this to help you but also interested in comments others will have becasue it will continue to be an issue for all of us.   Good Luck! ... View more

Yes, I use a laptop for portable work and a faster Desktop computer for local working of images and Printing. I do work on both computers. I backup every time I exit Lightroom to the local laptop and I occasionally move a copy to the NAS by hand and time machine does a backup also. I have also used the backups when problems have come up. I have a top level folder on the NAS called Photography and then a folder for each camera type including iPhone. Then I have a folder for Lightroom which is the backups of catalog. All this at the top level on the NAS so it only takes a few keystrokes to drill down when I manually go there. Thanks again for your suggestions. They are all good. ... View more

Thanks to all for the postings and the ideas. I notice the links that Staff posted indicated the same issue I have and they were one year ago. One guy trying to use the cloud, ugggg. I will continue to use the NAS drives and keep my catalog on the local system as I have been doing. Don't like the idea of manually writing XMP files but I can see how it would work. I would be working for Light Room instead of having Light Room work for me. I may decide to split my work up into multiple catalogs and put the catalogs that LR has trouble with on a local machine. This will eventually grow into a problem though. I also was trying to go with a single catalog as suggested by some. Supporting network issues could be a problem I guess but supporting computers in general was in the beginning and NAS is getting down the road. LR developers will eventually come around. I hope! I could go buy a new Mac Tower and try to put 10 TB of RAID storage on that. Then backup to the NAS on the network in a different building. I would need to sell the idea to my finance minister though, you may not hear from me again. ... View more

A few of the error messages are included below: Could not write metadata. Unknown file I/O error. (18) /Volumes/DroboFS/tdb1310c0286/1/Photography/H4D/110130/A0000029.3FR (These are Hasselblad raw files typically get an XMP sidecar file for each) /Volumes/DroboFS/tdb1310c0286/1/Photography/H4D/110220/A0000189.3FR Photos have read-only access. (66) /Volumes/DroboFS/tdb1310c0286/1/Photography/Inventory/Original Digital Scans/COAST.TIF (I do not see a write limitation. On a Mac so I will look at this with linux and use chmod if needed.) /Volumes/DroboFS/tdb1310c0286/1/Photography/Inventory/Original Digital Scans/COSTUME.TIF /Volumes/DroboFS/tdb1310c0286/1/Photography/H4D/110401/Phocus Exports/A_0057.psd /Volumes/DroboFS/tdb1310c0286/1/Photography/H4D/110401/Phocus Exports/A_0128.psd Could not write metadata. Unknown file formats. (395) /Volumes/DroboFS/tdb1310c0286/1/Photography/H4D/110325B/Phocus Exported/North Overlood of Canyonlands National Park_2279.tif (No idea what is going on here. I plan to look at the files more) /Volumes/DroboFS/tdb1310c0286/1/Photography/H4D/110325B/Phocus Exported/North Overlood of Canyonlands National Park_2280.tif ….. /Volumes/DroboFS/tdb1310c0286/1/Photography/H4D/110325B/Phocus Exported/So Utah Area_0882.psd (These files are mostly exported by Hasselblad Phocus and this program may not be generating a PSD file that LR likes. They do work fine with PS however. ) /Volumes/DroboFS/tdb1310c0286/1/Photography/H4D/110325B/Phocus Exported/So Utah Area_0885.psd Yes, LR is set to automatically write XMP metadata files. I have also tried to manually write the files one selected at a time and also as a group. I think your list of files that include sidecar files is not correct. I agree that some formats do not require a sidecar file. The main issue I had was with PDF files and I have about 800 that have the problem indicated. I have set LR to “Don’t show me this issue again” when I stop LR. I feel LR is probably constantly working in the background trying to write the XMP data or file. I am continuing to work using the NAS drive. I have been using a NAS drive for several years. I just did not like hearing that Adobe was not supporting NAS drives. Again this is not a practical situation considering storage needs of digital photography. I just returned from shooting today and I see I generated 40.8 GB of file data. I will boil this down a lot but I need to be able to use NAS or I will drown. Thanks for the reply and any suggestions or comments. ... View more

The Monitor is backlit and the printed version only has reflected light. this makes it difficult to get a good idea what the printed version will look like from the monitor. I have turned the light down on the monitor as much as possible to reduce effects of backlighting. I am working with both raw and processed images using Photoshop CS5 currently. Worked through this process by hand again today for both brightness and contrast on a B&W print. It takes a while to get the images so you can make objective comparisons. I see the path to make an Action script and will eventually do this as well. I am talking about adjustments of brightness and contrast. ... View more