Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/11/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I think in 2.5 it is under Edit > Catalog Preferences. Then when you go to Preferences it is in the middle of the page - optimize catalog. If you haven't optimized it, that is definitely the problem with your slowness. Optimizing makes a huge difference and you should do it at least once a week. You really should upgrade to 3.0, though. It has lots of great features. Tina On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 5:34 AM, Peter Cheyne <geordiepete211 at yahoo.co.uk>wrote: > Thanks for all the tips. I ran the Crucial downloadable scanner. It said > my max. memory capacity = 3072 MB. I have 2 GB in there now, and that: > Although the memory can be installed one module at a time, the best > performance comes from using matched pairs of modules.Maximum memory is > reached by using one 2GB SODIMM and one 1GB SODIMM. > > I find this contradictory, so I'm still confused. I think I should get two > 2 GB sticks to keep best performance. Crucial's scanner says that, yet the > next thing it says is that I should get a 2 GB stick for one slot and keep > a > 1 GB stick in the other slot. Does anyone understand this and is able to > recommend which would be faster, the 3 GB set or the 4 GB? > > > My 9000 image catalogue is on a 460 GB external drive with 100 GB spare. > My 9000 image catalogue seems pretty small compared to the sizes of some > LUGgers catalogues. I guess it's about time to buy another external HDD > and > try to run them together. I suppose that means daisy chaining them. > > As for the recommendation of optimizing my Lightroom catalogue, I can't > find where to do that. I use Lightroom 2.5. I go to Lightroom > File but > can't see any optimize option. > > I'll run Disk utility on my internal and external drives, but I do this > *fairly* often anyway. > > Peter Cheyne > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > -- Tina Manley, ASMP www.tinamanley.com