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P: Creating Directories in Inappropriate Locations ~/Documents

Forum|Forum|13 years ago
April 19, 2012
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Adobe Lightroom 4 is annoyingly creating a directory in ~/Documents on Mac OS X. For example: /Users/smith/Documents/Adobe. Contained within this Adobe directory is an empty directory named "dynamiclinkmediaserver". This is an inappropriate place to create files or directories of this nature. OS X has other directories that can and should be used for settings, preferences, temporary files, and others of similar nature.These two directories are created every time that Lightroom 4 is launched, even after deletion. Please avoid creating these directories in ~/Documents and put them somewhere else in future patches and versions of Lightroom. I look forward to this annoyance being squashed. Thanks, and keep up the good work otherwise.

johnrellis

Legend

"However, it can be a little confusing if, as in my case, the previous name - which was system generated - included the version number '13-4'"

Agreed. Overall, I think the new design will be less confusing to most users, once we get through the transition period of the old naming system.

Note that there is a new command File > Rename Catalog that makes it much easier to rename catalogs. I've got my own naming conventions, and it makes the upgrades much easier.

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Street W ise

Participant

Ah, so the default catalog name after updating to 14.0 is the same as the catalog it replaces? Fair enough! However, it can be a little confusing if, as in my case, the previous name - which was system generated - included the version number '13-4'. I assume the correct course of action is to override the default name, by either removing the string '13-4' from the filename, or replacing it with '14-0'. Personally I think it's useful to see from the name which catalog format is being used.

johnrellis

Legend

@Street W ise: "Just noticed that when upgrading to 14.0. LR Classic zips the old 13-4 and creates a new catalog with default name also of 13-4. I suspect this is a bug, it should be 14-0 to reflect the version of LR."

This is by design. LR 14 changes the way catalog upgrades work, no longer appending the version number:

https://www.lightroomqueen.com/whats-new-in-lightroom-2024-10/

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Street W ise

Participant

Just noticed that when upgrading to 14.0. LR Classic zips the old 13-4 and creates a new catalog with default name also of 13-4. I suspect this is a bug, it should be 14-0 to reflect the version of LR. Anyway it's easy to fix via the Rename Catalog.

Rikk Flohr_Photography

Community Manager

@Street W ise

It should be safe to delete. I recommend renaming it and verifying that things are okay before permanently deleting it.

Rikk Flohr: Adobe Photography Org

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Street W ise

Participant

Thanks for the fix and letting us know. I note that after updating to the latest versions of my CC apps, the Adobe folder is still present in the MyDocuments folder.

Can you confirm that it is safe to delete this folder?
What is the location of the new folder?

Thanks in advance

Rikk Flohr_Photography

Community Manager

Greetings all,

A new update for Adobe Photography Products has been released. The October (MAX) update contains an update for this issue.

If you do not see the update in your Creative Cloud Application, you can refresh it by hitting [Ctrl/Cmd]+[Alt/Opt]+[ R ].

Note: It may take up to 24 hours for your update to be available in your Creative Cloud app.

Thank you for being so patient.

Rikk Flohr: Adobe Photography Org