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P: Book Module – Unfinished book vanishes

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April 2, 2012
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I’m creating my first Blurb book inside of Lightroom 4. There are some 175 images in my collection/filmstrip. I was about 80% complete with the book, when I selected an image to go into the Development Module for adjustments. When done I returned to the Book Module. But the book was gone! The filmstrip at the bottom of the page is there indicating images are in the book, but the book itself is empty with only a cover and two blank pages. If I add an already “used” image, the filmstrip counter goes from 1 to 2.

Trying to fix this problem, I backed up and optimized my catalog. But upon restarting Lightroom no change... and no book!

Any suggestions as how to get my book back? Or do I have to start over!

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antonym7183371

Participant

I have had the same problem and am now half way through a new book of 140 pages.
i have asked whether it is safe to upgrade to 4.2 whilst in the middle of this book and have not had an answer. Is it safe?
I am also having problems saving to PDF. it worked on an early draft of the book but I now get an error message with no explanation. Any ideas what may be causing it?

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Bec Sowada

Adobe Employee

I'd also suggest trying the 4.3 public RC (just posted at http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/li...), which contains a fix for this book problem.

Pete.Green

Sorry about the lost work -- Have you updated to LR 4.2 yet?

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FeedbackCommunityMember

Inspiring

I have the same issue. I have lost 60 pages of a book and about 60 hours of work down the drain. Will be switching back to Blurb.

dorin_nicolaescu

Inspiring

What Lightroom version?

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FeedbackCommunityMember

Inspiring

Crazy, i just spent 50 hours on my book with a lot of text, it's gone when i quit LR and saved database. Is there any possibility to restore ???

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FeedbackCommunityMember

Inspiring

If the application said "UPGRADE NOW YOU ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING ALL YOUR WORK BECAUSE OF A BUG IN THE BOOK MODULE" people would upgrade right away. However, people generally do not upgrade right away for a couple of reasons:

1 ) Upgrades are time consuming, and people are often time constrained and need to get work done, so delay.

2 ) Upgrades may introduce new bugs, so people wait a bit to see if there are any issues. For example, there is also a thread on this forum (which you are monitoring) about new problems cause by upgrades.

http://feedback.photoshop.com/photosh...

The thing is don't blame the user. Inform them. As good interface designers should know, the user is (almost) never wrong. If the user is don't doing something correctly, then maybe there is a problem with the design. In the case the problem lack of info. The users don't know how critical the update is.

Instead of playing the Cover Your A** game, Adobe should just be honest, and send an email to all registered users and let them know about the problem and the critical importance of the upgrade.

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bcdavis1975

Known Participant

Good point.

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FeedbackCommunityMember

Inspiring

Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrgggghhhhhhhhh!

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J453

Legend

That's why the application informs you that upgrades are available when you launch it.