[Leica] Computer Woes

[kcarney1 at cox.net (Ken Carney)]

Tina,

Since this is memory intensive, you might see if your motherboard can 
handle 32 gb of ram.  If so you can buy 16gb for about $150 (2x8gb).  If 
that helps significantly you could buy another two. Tiger Direct or 
Crucial can assist with finding the correct ram. Hope this helps.

Ken


On 1/31/2014 8:43 AM, Tina Manley 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
> .