1. I doubt it. trshaner's advice was more aimed at being able to take advantage of the monitor's ability to handle 10-bit/channel input. 2. AFAIK, PS doesn't use the GPU to a huge extent, I'd say that most of your slowdown there is due to pure CPU. For PS, that's where I'd concentrate my effort. That new box you're getting sounds really fast, but no matter how fast, I'm sure that it's possible to do some kind of editing that will drive it into the ground. Hal ... View more

If your system shuts itself down, it's quite likely overheating. Lightroom can make a computer work hard and get hot. Make sure all your fans are running, especially your CPU fan. Make sure none of your vents are clogged and that your heatsinks and motherboard are free of dust. You can get a free app called "Speedfan" that will report on various temperatures within your computer. Also, there's a free program, Prime95, that has a torture test mode that will work your computer very hard. See Google for both of those programs. Hal ... View more

Phil, If you buy it, you'll still need to download the latest version. 4.0 will come on the disk, and 4.1 fixes a pile of problems. Hal ... View more

Lou, PC, and I did it with NEF files. If you have DNG and created them with fast load data, I think the ACR cache won't be used. Hal ... View more

Lou, I experienced something similar. Nothing appeared in the cache folder. Try hitting the "Choose" button in your preferences and then choosing the folder that you want your cache kept in. I did that and that folder started filling up as I brought various raw files up in the Develop Module. Hal ... View more

rrr_hhh wrote: So are any of those working with Win 7 64bits and having Photoshop installed encountering the problem ? Are there many testimonies that those having PS or PSE already installed (not installed afterward) have not problems ? That would be me. I had PS and Silver Efex Pro 2 installed with LR3, and when I converted my catalogue to LR4, both of those apps were still available for external editing and worked fine. Hal ... View more

You can always use the 2010 Process Version if you want the halos. Hal ... View more

Silver Efex Pro works fine in LR4, for which I'm thankful. Win 7, 64-bit. Hal ... View more

Jim, I didn't see it as a video card issue, either, but figured it was worth an ask. 🙂 I don't need your condition 3 to trigger the bug. I have no publish services configured, and even removing the Publish Services section doesn't help. In Loupe mode the bug is still there, but more subtle. The left panel will scroll unless the mouse cursor is over a disk drive line in the folders panel, and the right panel will scroll in fits and starts, where it seems to be stopped by fields that display a tool tip. Hal ... View more

I still have the problem in LR 4 Beta, even when booting is Safe Mode. I've had it in LR 3.6 as well. It started when I upgraded to Win 7 from XP. Out of curiousity, what video cards are people using? Mine is NVidia GeForce GTX 550 Ti. Hal ... View more

Make sure your camera(s) have PTP specified in the USB menu item. "Mass storage" won't work. Hal ... View more

If I remember correctly, the clock doesn't start ticking until you run the program the first time. If Monte hasn't run it yet, I think he's OK. Hal ... View more

Have you read the release notes? http://blogs.adobe.com/lightroomjournal/2012/01/lr4betanowavailable.html You need OSX 10.6.8 on a 64-bit mac. Hal ... View more

There's no way of changing the behaviour. It's interesting that the right-click on the filmstrip works. I didn't expect it to. Switching to/from Grid Mode is pretty quick: 'g' to go to Grid; 'd' to go back to Develop. So 4 keystrokes: g<delete>dd   Hal ... View more

As Beat said, selecting multiple images in the film strip will not work for you. You have to select multiple images in the grid. Hal ... View more

What context? Could it be Manufacturer's List Price? Multiple License Program? When I google it, most of the hits seem to be about educational pricing, but I can't come up with an acronym that fits. Hal ... View more

Clyde, Sorry. I didn't notice that you had tried that. You did it the right way. If your backup catalogue doesn't give you any joy, there's a guy at Adobe who has been known to repair damaged catalogues. I'll PM you his email. Hal ... View more

Clyde, Can you see your images in the Develop module? If you can see them there but not in the Library module, then your preview cache is hosed. Deleteing it and having it rebuilt from within LR would be the thing to do in that case. That said, it sounds like you are doing the right thing regarding backup catalogues and the images that seem to be causing the problem. Keep us posted. Hal ... View more

If you set Crop Dimensions as one of the things to show in Loupe View, you get this: In that screenshot, 4288 / 2848 is the aspect ratio. It isn't in lowest terms, is all. Hal ... View more

Spaceman, In Lightroom, you can go to the All Photographs collection and sort by file name. That will at least bring all the duplicates next to each other. Having duplicate images in your catalogue can be a bother. How did they get there? There's a box you can check to prevent duplicates from being imported. And yes, Lightroom doesn't change your images. That's the point of being non-destructive. If you want images to share, you create them on demand through the export process (or Print, Web, or Slideshow). The exported images can be treated as temporary in the sense that you don't need to import them back into Lightroom because they can always be re-created. Lightroom is kind of like a marriage (Not my metaphor.). When you use it, it works best with some commitment on your part to use it as your sole entry to your images. It is a good partner in most respects .And like all good spouses, it has its flaws. Hal ... View more

The metadata stored in the jpeg isn't in the compressed part of the file...only the image data is compressed. Lightroom doesn't recompress the images when it writes its metadata to the jpeg. The only lossy compression happens when you create a jpeg that incorporates your Lightroom image edits, and that only happens once, so degradation is kept to an absolute minimum. Exporting as original doesn't change the image, so no recompression happens. Hal ... View more