Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/03/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I have not used a Lenovo machine, but I have a few friends who have their laptops and are very satisfied with them. I know in the laptop world, they were IBM. Not sure how that spun into Lenovo. And on my last e-mail about exporting your catalog, you would only have to do that if you have photos stored in various places. If everything is in one folder under the Lightroom folder, including the catalog, just a straight copy of the folder, including catalog and all photos, should do. I have "legacy" photos stored on two drives and in various non-inclusive folders, so I would have to move them all into the same folder under Lightroom (a pain to do in LR3, but not LR4) in order to just copy my folder to a portable drive to move it to another computer. Make sense? You should not need a working LR3 on the computer you are moving to. LR4 and a full catalog/photo set is all that should be needed. It should upgrade the catalog to LR4 and keep your LR3 catalog intact, not that you would use it again if you did not have LR3 on that new computer. Aram -------------------------------------------------- From: "Douglas Sharp" <douglas.sharp at gmx.de> Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2012 10:00 AM To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org> Subject: Re: [Leica] Not yet upgrading to LR4 > Hi Mark, > > thanks for the advice - I'm currently looking at Lenovo > Workstations with lots of number-crunching abilities > that can speed up my translation databases and not slow > down to a crawl when using Photoshop CS (I'm currently > working with 250 MB files of scanned mining maps and it > is S l o w! - only 2.4GBs of RAM). > > Anyone heard anything particularly good or bad about > Lenovo? > > Cheers > Douglas > > On 13.03.2012 17:52, Mark Pope wrote: >> Hi Doug, >> >> I would be inclined to install Lightroom3 on the >> Windows 7 machine first, then migrate your >> images/catalogue over by exporting it from the XP >> machine, then import on the Windows 7 machine. Only >> when you're satisfied that everything is working >> satisfactorily on the Windows 7 machine would I upgrade. >> You may also have to copy any settings you have made >> in the print module, for example for any bespoke >> print sizes, as these aren't part of the catalogue. >> Printer profiles will also need to be installed on >> the new machine. >> >> Have fun! >> >> >> Mark Pope, >> Swindon, Wilts >> UK >> >> Homepage http://www.monomagic.co.uk >> Blog http://www.monomagic.co.uk/blog >> Picture a week (2010) >> http://www.monomagic.co.uk/index.php?gallery=paw/2010 >> Picture a week (2009) >> http://www.monomagic.co.uk/index.php?gallery=paw/2009 >> (2008) >> http://www.monomagic.co.uk/index.php?gallery=paw/2008 >> >> >> >