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June 13, 2011
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P: Ability to set up a queue up and schedule several tasks at a time when not by your computer

  • June 13, 2011
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OK, I'm not sure I can describe this good. But sometimes LR is slow when you start a few tasks, like exporting images to jpgs, web galleries, etc, that you wish that those could be done at a time when you're not by your computer (say at a coffee break, lunch or even leaving the office for the day).

It would be cool with a feature where you could queue several tasks, that can be done when the computer is having "down time" or when you tell it to "start processing task queue" or similar.

Or a possibility for third party vendors to script something like this (or even yourself if you're fairly good as scripting).

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areohbee
Legend
June 14, 2011
Petra, you got my '+1'. Also, you might like a related idea:

Auto-publishing

In spirit, I see these ideas as being part of the same thing:

- exporting and publishing and whatever else may need to be done in the background.

Maybe create previews / cached copies (if cache enhanced to be more beneficial) too, if nothing else to do...

Maybe be able to configure background processing to kick in if keyboard idle for a minute or two...

Summary:
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Good idea - to be able to do all the things that need to be done (or may come in handy in the future), without interfering with what's going on at the keyboard...

PS - Feel free to PM me if you have specific ideas for scripting to support this cause.

Petra - In the mean time, you may also be interested in ExportManager, which supports export queuing.
Inspiring
June 13, 2011
I think this is great but what would also be great is to be able to pause single tasks and lets say give the different priority as well as tell them only to use the cpu not used by the user lightroom or any other program.
Known Participant
June 13, 2011
Lee, that's the thing, it does slow down stuff like the adjustment brush more than normal (it's enough sluggish as it is).
Inspiring
June 13, 2011
Why not just let it do those tasks in the background while you work?