"True, but no use for a raw, non-destructive workflow." But the quality of the Kodak negative films I've inverted either with my D850 or using LR is so poor that its not worth doing any serious editing on them. Converting to jpgs is about all they are worth - holiday snaps!! Bob Frost ... View more

My Nikon D850 has negative inversion built-in. Converts to jpgs in camera. Bob frost ... View more

Just use the last backup you made before installing the new Lightroom   Bob Frost ... View more

If you really don't want to try any of the other tips above, why not start your export just before you go to bed? Bob Frost ... View more

Is that not because simply looking at an image is 'touching it' and therefore the LR catalog item 'touchtime' will be changed. That puts the catalog at odds with the touchtime stored in the xmp sidecar unless you have set update xmp automatically. I have that set, and never have this problem. Win10. Just a guess! Happy New Year, Bob Frost ... View more

What software are you using to unzip them? Not all unzippers unzip stuff from all zippers! Sometimes there is incompatibity. I have suggested that Adobe incorporate an unzip facility into LR that is compatible with their zipper. But I doubt if that will happen in my lifetime.   Bob Frost ... View more

If you want to set low priority for the export process, make your own shortcut to turn LR on with export at low priority as in the following  https://www.eightforums.com/threads/cpu-priority-shortcut-for-a-program-create-in-windows.40287/ Bob Frost ... View more

Surprisingly it doesn't cut performance in half! Exporting 65 nefs using 12 threads took 4 min 20 secs, while using 6 threads it took 3 mins 45 secs. Intel is now selling cpus with hyperthreading permanently disabled. It can cause more problems than it solves. And Intel has recently been advocating turning hyperthreading off to reduce vulnerability to security problems, and is moving away from hyperthreading in some of its latest processors. But I love having all my 12 threads at 100% while exporting or rendering previews. No doubt adobe could have a checkbox for exports as they do for previews.That would make both of us happy. Bob Frost ... View more

If you go to Puget Systems website (pugetsystems.com) you will find that they have an article about turning off half the cpu threads for LR, and have produced a utility that launches LR with half the threads. It is not permanent; you just launch LR from this utility (put it on your desktop) when you want to do exports, and in most cases it slows down exports and leaves half your threads free for other purposes. Its not what they designed the utility for (as you will see when you read the article), but I realised it might just be what you posters want. I've tried it and it only allows LR to use half the threads, slowing down export a little, but the other threads are free for other programs. Bob Frost ... View more

I love the fact that LR now uses all my cpu during export - gets it over much faster! I have a cup of coffee, read a book (remember those things made of paper?), or go to bed while its doing its stuff! Bob Frost ... View more

My email program had the right idea. All the emails telling me I had won another badge were sent to my Junk folder!! ... View more

Actually it's now 21 badges!!!!!  Has someone gone beserk?   Bob Frost ... View more

I've never seen this since I closed the Navigator window years ago for slowing stuff down. Simple solution! Bob Frost ... View more

If you have got two card slots in your camera, you can often tell it to store raws on one card and jpgs on the other. Another possibility? Bob Frost ... View more

"Memory allocated to a program has been requested by that program, and it is the responsibility of that program to release it (or of the Operating system upon termination of the program)" ..................................................... That is not the way memory management works in Windows; not sure about Mac. The memory is kept by the Operating system after the program has released it, in case you want that stuff again. Only when another program wants memory does the OS release the stored memory. Bob Frost ... View more

So it's equivalent to a psd or tiff from Photoshop. Having looked at a few Enhanced dngs, my feeling is that I can achieve far greater improvements to my nefs using Photoshop's tools than I can with these E-dngs. My initial impression is that it only enhances parts of the image that are absolutely in focus. Is that correct or haven't I looked at enough yet? Bob Frost ... View more

And the Enhanced dng files are about 5 times larger than my nefs!!! Bob frost ... View more

Looks to me that you've just chosen the wrong WB in your camera when you took the shots. Bob Frost ... View more

Have you tried a museum? Bob Frost ... View more

I had a similar problem last week, Import would just go into a Not Responding state. After trying the usual cures, I used a method that I had used before, Create a new catalog, and then import everything from your existing catalog into the new one. That left behind stuff that LR 8.1 didnt like, and it now works fine. Bob Frost ... View more

You can probably make the cache folders 'read-only' and then LR won't be able to write to them. Bob Frost ... View more

I've recently had the same problem with LR Classic 8.1. My solution was to create a new catalog, and then import everything from the old catalog which has the Import problem. That worked fine, because importing to a new catalog leaves behind any rubbish that is upsetting LR. I used to do this back in the old days of LR2-5, when upgrades to LR upgraded the catalog and caused problems. I've not had to do this in recent years, but this 'Import Not responding' problem made me remember it again. It wasn't a Prefs problem, before anyone suggests it. It was faulty entries in the Adobe_Variables Table in the catalog. No need to play with that unless you are very computer literate and curious. Those faulty entries were left behind and not imported to the new catalog, so everything works properly again. Bob Frost ... View more

Many people were obviously not cynical enough to realise that 'Indefinitely' is a 'weasel' word. It can mean whatever you want. So such assurances are worthless. If what I read about corporate responsibility to shareholders is half true, Tom Hogarty should probably not make any statements about the future of LR or any other Adobe program. He is not in charge of Adobe, and therefore cannot give any meaningful assurances to mere users/customers. He can always be over-ridden, so best keep mum. 'Que Sera, sera, whatever will be, will be; the future' s not ours to see, que sera, sera.' bob Frost ... View more

Never had this problem because when I reinstall Windows (rarely) one of the first things I do is turn off Hibernate! 'Powercfg hibernate off' in a command box. KISS. Bob Frost ... View more

Hi John, Do you not remember someone called Tom Hogarty reassuring everyone that Adobe were NOT going to do away with the perpetual licences for LR? Then he got promoted. Bob Frost ... View more

Files are only usually renamed by the OS if there is already a file of the same name in that folder. Then it adds a -2 (or similar) to the end of the second filename. Bob Frost ... View more

I'd add one more - disable all plugins! Bob Frost ... View more

I apply a preset to batches in Library's Quick Develop that includes Auto (Latest LR Classic). But I don't see any difference between applying it to a batch of files that way, and applying it individually in Develop.  Thinking about this, I suspect this is because I don't use the ACR cache in LR. Yes, I have one set, but I have also set it to Read Only and it is empty (deliberately). I have a pretty fast computer and don't think using the ACR cache produces any noticeable speed-up for me, so I prefer to remove that unnecessary task from LR (it already has far too much to do IMO).   So I presume that applying my preset with Auto in Library (with Quick Develop) makes LR render a full preview for each file as it does not have a half-baked one in the ACR cache. Am I right in my thinking or have I missed something?   Bob Frost ... View more