Lightroom crash.

ToshidoToshido Registered Users Posts: 759 Major grins
edited July 16, 2009 in Digital Darkroom
Just had lightroom crash and lost close to 4 hours work due to it....

My question...

I thought lightroom saved new data to it's catalogue as it ran?

I mean I don't see an option for things like autosave every X minutes, like in my AutoCAD days...

So any way to prevent this from happening again?
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  • arodneyarodney Registered Users Posts: 2,005 Major grins
    edited July 10, 2009
    Toshido wrote:
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    I mean I don't see an option for things like autosave every X minutes, like in my AutoCAD days...

    It does auto save.
    Andrew Rodney
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  • ToshidoToshido Registered Users Posts: 759 Major grins
    edited July 10, 2009
    Where are the autosaves?

    I know from previous crashes the LR catalog seems to save changes in real time. Even had a majot crash that corrupted the catalog, yet loading it up a couple times and fixing a computer hardware issue got back all my information.

    Last crash was a different beast though.

    5 hours of work GONE!

    Re-doing my work the following day I was exiting and reloading LR every 30-60 minutes and doing a catalog backup at that time as well. Just to be safe.

    Wondering if there is a better way, that's all. Or maybe an explanation...
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  • arodneyarodney Registered Users Posts: 2,005 Major grins
    edited July 11, 2009
    Toshido wrote:
    Where are the autosaves?

    Up to a point before the crash, everything is saved in the database. There's no "autosaves" to locate. LR is saving as it operates.

    Do you have the Automatically save XMP on in the Catalog Preferences?
    Andrew Rodney
    Author "Color Management for Photographers"
    http://www.digitaldog.net/
  • ToshidoToshido Registered Users Posts: 759 Major grins
    edited July 11, 2009
    "Do you have the Automatically save XMP on in the Catalog Preferences?"


    I believe I do now. I was poking around the other day, after the crash, and saw that option so I think I enabled it now. if I remember right it was not activated by default.
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  • cabbeycabbey Registered Users Posts: 1,053 Major grins
    edited July 16, 2009
    Toshido wrote:
    if I remember right it was not activated by default.

    It's not, you need to turn that on every time you create a new catalog. Dumbest default I've seen from Adobe in ages. Minor performance penalty when you make changes, but so worth it.
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