Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/01/31
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Tina, Upgrade the main memory to at least 16GB, and if your motherboard supports it, to 32GB or even 64GB. I think 8GB is just not enough nowadays. My PC has 32GB Cheers Jayanand On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 8:13 PM, Tina Manley <images at comporium.net> wrote: > PESO: > > I haven't commented on photos lately because I can't get to them. My main > computer is tied up with LR. After reading Peter Krogh's latest book on > digital management, I decided to divide my photos into two LR catalogs > instead of one huge one. I made one for Archive photos and kept the > original catalog for Current photos. That part went fine. Then I had to > remove all of the Archive photos from the the Current catalog. LR worked > on it for two days, I left it working when I went to Charleston. When I > came back it was 88% finished, but I got a notice that my computer was > dangerously low on memory and was shutting down. I had to start all over > again. Now it's been working for three days and is 85% finished. I have > shut down everything else on the computer, including e-mail. I'm using my > little Acer netbook for e-mail. LR is using 99% of the physical memory - > 8GB. I had over 500,000 photos in the one catalog and am trying to remove > 175,000. I guess I should have done it in smaller amounts. > > The Acer is too small and slow to look at photos, but I'll catch up > someday. > > Any suggestions besides throwing the computer out the window would be > greatly appreciated. I can't even download the photos I took in > Charleston!! > > Tina > . > -- > Tina Manley > http:// <http://tina-manley.artistwebsites.com/>www.tinamanley.com > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information