P: Tethering

Hi David,

Are you suggesting the issue is with Nikon SDK and OSX 10.6.8?

Personally, I've been shooting tethered with 3 different MBP's (running various versions of OSX 10.4 through to the latest version of OSX 10.6.7) and various versions of LR for 3+ years: (A) LR2 with both CCP and Sofortbild and a "watched" folder and (B) the past year or so with LR3 and camera tethered directly. I personally have never experienced the tethering disconnection issue that I described initially -- and many people are also experiencing -- UNTIL THE DAY I upgraded to OSX 10.6.8.

Scott

From my opinion, I think there is an issue with Nikon SDK.

I tried today, to shoot from Nikon Camera Control Pro 2.9.0 , and LR 3.4.1 set up in "hot folder" mode with auto import.

Everything is running fine but sometimes, connection is lost between camera and computer.

I have noticed, a few times ago, that Nikon CCP prevents Mac OS screensaver from launching (or disable it). Turning off the camera (breaking USB connection by consequence) solves the problem.

Maybe USB connection from Nikon's gear is not stable as it should be....

My two cents...

Ben, can you shed any light on Adobe's progress with this matter? Is it something you are working on or is it not a priority? An update would be appreciated, just to understand (roughly) when we might be able to expect a fix for this issue... Clearly, many people rely on the tethering function for their workflows (and in my case -- and others' cases -- it's not a "nice-to-have" but a necessity for our livelihoods). It would just be nice to have some information, please. Thank you.

Deleting or removing the preferences did not work for me in my testing either. I thought that shooting tethered and having the files go to a server may be causing the problem, with further testing proved wrong. I am hoping that Adobe resolves this problem. I have read that reverting to LR Version 3.3 may solve the problem.

The info from Geoff and Lee Jay is correct. You won't hurt anything by removing your preference files. You don't have to throw it away, you could just move it to the desktop, for example. Then, if nothing was fixed, you could move it back and everything would be as it was before. As Lee Jay says, anything you did to change the default behavior or appearance of Lightroom is stored in this file. Nothing regarding your images or what you've done with your images is stored in this file. Also, as explained in the article that Geoff provided a link to, you want to go into the Library folder that's in your User folder.

As to whether or not throwing out the preferences will help in this particular case, I can't say. It hasn't made any difference in my testing, but your milage may vary.

-Ben

All your preferences are stored in there, view options, which panels are open, etc. Nothing about the images or their organization as all of that is in the catalog.

Ok... a few questions...
What settings or preferences are actually stored in this .plist?
Will I need to reset anything?

Don't be reluctant about deleting the preferences. If you're scared for some reason, just change the file names (add the word "save" in there and you can always get them back). Corruption in the preferences file has caused many people headaches and moving it aside is a simple, painless and low-risk thing to try.

For an official Adobe source, see this technote:

http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/405/kb405365...

To find the preference file for your computer look here: http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/843/cpsid_84...

With Lightroom CLOSED remove any "com.adobe.Lightroom3.plist" and Lightroom 2 plist files to your desktop and restart Lightroom which will generate new preferences.
If your problem is not solved you can simply replace the new preferences with the old.

To find the preference file for your computer look here: http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/843/cpsid_84...

With Lightroom CLOSED remove any "com.adobe.Lightroom3.plist" and Lightroom 2 plist files to your desktop and restart Lightroom which will generate new preferences.
If your problem is not solved you can simply replace the new preferences with the old.