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Subject: [Leica] Computer Woes
From: jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj)
Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2014 22:40:41 +0530
References: <CA+yJO1CZgjU8COCUGMkZyxqFXZ2L9UVc-x-HOWLGiNVJT0eENQ@mail.gmail.com>

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
>
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