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  1. Lowell Montgomery

    Keyword Tags have disappered

    I agree with JohanElzenga's assessment. It sounds like you must have renamed the folders outside of Lightroom and reimported images that had not had their metadata saved back out (to XMP, etc). If you don't save the metadata and bring the file back into a new Lightroom catalog (or remove and...
  2. Lowell Montgomery

    Transitioning LR library from mac to windows

    I think you may also be able to install drivers on one or the other, although the best ones are not free. You can get various options for read/write of NTFS from Mac and for Mac-formatted (HFS+) drives there are also free (e.g. Apple Bootcamp drivers) and paid (e.g. MacDrive) options. I do like...
  3. Lowell Montgomery

    Yuk! Everything looks grainy!

    And ISO800 with the Sony A6000 is not low... if you can manage to shoot with lower ISO, do it, wherever possible (use a tripod or add light or use a faster lens). Or just learn to make the best of images like what you got. As tspear said, too much shadow recovery tends to reveal a lot of noise...
  4. Lowell Montgomery

    RAM??

    4GB really isn't a lot for Mac OS, especially if you are running highly demanding apps like LR. Regardless whether you track the crashes to some other issue, if you can bump the RAM up a bit, I think you will be very happy with the performance improvement, not just in Lightroom. In the meantime...
  5. Lowell Montgomery

    anything besides photoshop

    I was going to suggest Affinity Photo. It's what I was using till I bit the bullet and started the CC "photo subscription" (since I was having too many issues with CaptureOne Pro—mainly crashes while doing more "simple stuff": editing metadata). Anyway, it's pretty nice, but if you are really...
  6. Lowell Montgomery

    Deleting photos not in a collection

    Yep... that's it. ;-) Just to clarify the technical terminology and explain others' initial confusion; there is only one photo per "file", because a "file" is any single document. A "folder" (or "directory") is what organizes your files (in this case, your image files / i.e. your photos).
  7. Lowell Montgomery

    Trial of LR 6.7

    FYI (and FWIW) it is not necessary to trial both LR and PS at the same time. You can do a 30-day trial of any Adobe product. Like Johan said, it does not replace any previous versions you may already have installed.
  8. Lowell Montgomery

    Default Avatar changes

    I'm curious which people mean by "old defaults"... but I assume that is what I showed in my screenshot (#3)? I'm guessing that is the software default and that @Victoria Bampton (as site admin) chose custom avatars, but perhaps they were lost during an upgrade of the forum software.
  9. Lowell Montgomery

    Does fresh OS install look to Adobe like a new computer?

    If this really is a "fresh install" of Sierra, I suspect that Lightroom will see this as a "third computer" and you will need to de-register the notebook if you need both the old hard drive and new hard drive/OS installation to work until your "period of time" is over. If you use the migration...
  10. Lowell Montgomery

    Default Avatar changes

    I didn't remember what the former "default" avatars looked like, but @LouieSherwin is probably seeing what I am, i.e. simple male/female signs or a question mark. So, yes. Something has happened here. Perhaps @Victoria Bampton needs to clear her browser cache to see the change?
  11. Lowell Montgomery

    Do I need a better graphics card

    I was going to say the same: get more RAM; the price for maxing out your RAM, and the benefits of more RAM probably outweigh the benefits of a faster GPU. That said, there are some graphics cards that are in the "sweet spot" in terms of price/performance that might give you a noticeable enough...
  12. Lowell Montgomery

    Can I uninstall and re install without any complications?

    Very glad to hear it all worked out without too much pain and suffering, Pete. :-) I think the need to have your registration credentials handy is only for those of you who have a "perpetual license". I'm on the subscription treadmill, so the CC application "knows" that I subscribe to the...
  13. Lowell Montgomery

    Organization of HD stucture in relation to catalog..

    Ummm... I've encountered that issue before, but normally I don't have a reason to "stack" images that are not in the same directory. It sounds like you are trying to do something with stacks that Adobe didn't have in mind when they created the concept. Maybe collections are better for what you...
  14. Lowell Montgomery

    keyword inside keyword not assigned

    Right. That is the option you selected with the contextual menu, but unchecking that checkmark would allow you to change you mind and create the new term elsewhere (the base of your keyword tree or under a default "new keywords" parent. Most of the time I've created keywords recently it was to...
  15. Lowell Montgomery

    Export setting help ASAP PLEEEEEASE!

    As others have said, cropping or leaving a white border are the only two options if your image is not already at this (unusual) ratio. But I would suggest having a virtual copy of your image that has the crop for printing to A3 (you can name it with "A3-FILENAME" so you know what the copy is...
  16. Lowell Montgomery

    Keywording problem

    This one made me LOL... I've been using that feature for some time, but only just yesterday realized how easy it was to accidentally hit that option when trying to delete a keyword or perform some other "right-click" menu operation... especially if you are experiencing any kind of mouse...
  17. Lowell Montgomery

    SHARPENING

    I definitely agree with the others here... Settings which work for some images will ruin others. That said, you could create a few presets based on careful evaluation of several varying test images. And then you might have a good idea when to use which and be able to bulk apply a preset to a...
  18. Lowell Montgomery

    Windows 10 automatic update - LR will not open!

    For the sake of continuity, I'm adding a link here to the most recent thread started for resolving this same issue: http://www.lightroomqueen.com/community/threads/can-i-uninstall-and-re-install-without-any-complications.29328
  19. Lowell Montgomery

    Unexpected error opening catalog

    For the sake of continuity, I'm adding a link here to a new thread started for resolving this same issue: http://www.lightroomqueen.com/community/threads/can-i-uninstall-and-re-install-without-any-complications.29328
  20. Lowell Montgomery

    Can I uninstall and re install without any complications?

    Hi Pete, No worries; I'll clarify. A "thread" is any conversation in an online forum. The page you are on when you read/respond to me here is a "thread". (Sometimes they get broken into multiple pages if there are a lot of responses). Normally, the protocol for forum threads is: Create one...
  21. Lowell Montgomery

    LRcc doesn't recognize external HD

    I suspect you have enough that you'd lose by starting over with a new catalog and re-importing images (possibly even metadata that wasn't saved out to XML) that you will at least want to copy your LR catalog from the old to the new system. After that, you can re-link images in the catalog to the...
  22. Lowell Montgomery

    Can I uninstall and re install without any complications?

    No problem, Pete. And please do update your thread(s) here regarding what gets this issue resolved for you. Personally, I would try the reinstallation method (only) if the steps outlined on the Adobe help site don't resolve your issue.
  23. Lowell Montgomery

    Can I uninstall and re install without any complications?

    You already own a Lightroom 6 license, right? So the worst that you might need to do is re-enter your serial number or whatever. As we already discussed (in a separate thread), I do think you are safe from the issues that make you worry, though I'd make sure my catalog was safely backed up. And...
  24. Lowell Montgomery

    Unexpected error opening catalog

    Well, I did have a similar problem just the other day, but on OS X, so probably totally different. I ended up having to uninstall and re-install Lightroom (don't worry, your catalog won't be removed or anything). After that, it worked. This happened when I was attempting to run the update from...
  25. Lowell Montgomery

    Need a 'visually convenient' keywording plugin

    Thanks for your response, John. Yeah... I'm not crazy about the idea of getting into the SQL, either. Last time I did something like that it wasn't so bad, but I did need to shut down Lightroom and (of course) I made an extra backup copy of my catalog right before opening it in the SQL app. As a...
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