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Vista – Oh boy
Over the weekend we upgraded our main machine to Vista, well a part from the fact we were unable to get the raid running, everything went well and seems to be running fine. I bought a copy of Acronis True Image for the machine to ensure we get automatic backups now we are running with out the safety net of mirrored drives.
PSE 4 was flagged as a non Vista compatible product, but this seems to be mostly issues with the organiser which we don’t use now we have Lightroom.
Posted in Software
Lightroom Speed Up
My PC has Raid 5 for the main data disks and that makes it fairly slow to write to disk. This meant I really wanted to move the Lightroom cache, but not the database on to another disk. Well today I managed it.
Firstly I found an article about using symbolic linked drives on the Mac, which lead me to search for a tool to do the same under windows. I found Junction there are a few limitations in that you need to be using NTFS as a file system, but I was so I crossed my fingers and did the deed.
- Make sure Lightroom is NOT running.
- Move the “Lightroom Database Previews.lrdata/” directory to the new hard drive.
- Put the Junction exe in the Windows directory
- From the command line type Junction “old dir” “new dir” and press enter
- Start lightroom and your cache is moved.
This is probably a tip only for advanced PC users and its well worth reading though the help for Junction and the Shell Shocked Article before you start, but it’s speeded up my Lightroom no end so it was worth it for me.
New: June 2009
I have just found Link Shell Extension which adds a GUI interface to the Junction Command. Very Nice and it works in x64 Vista
Tags: Lightroom – FTP Utility
Newer Version Available see : FTP Sender 1.5
Now I am using Coppermine for my gallery I wanted a quick way to upload files from Lightroom. So I wrote the Lightroom FTP Sender.
This is a first version, but feel free to try it. Please leave me a comment if you find it useful. If enough people find it useful, there are some extra features I would like to add.