Adobe Community: If you haven't optimized your catalog under 4.1, do so

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1. Rob Cole,

Jun 13, 2012 5:38 PM in reply to Lee Jay

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"Always" (meaning normally) doing in the course of backup seems like a good plan to me.

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2. Cornelia-I,

Jun 13, 2012 10:05 PM in reply to Rob Cole

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Yes, that is also my working mode.

Fortunately it is defaulted for the backup procedure, so many people hopefuly will leave the tick where it is.

Cornelia

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3. Lee Jay,

Jun 14, 2012 6:06 AM in reply to Rob Cole

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Rob Cole wrote:

"Always" (meaning normally) doing in the course of backup seems like a good plan to me.

Since I rarely - if ever - backup the catalog, I hadn't optimized in a long time. I had never found that it improved anything much, until now.

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4. Rob Cole,

Jun 14, 2012 11:21 AM in reply to Lee Jay

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Optimizing fixed a few people's abnormal performance problems in Lr3's earlier days too.

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5. CSS Simon,

Jun 14, 2012 4:24 PM in reply to Lee Jay

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Lee Jay wrote:

Since I rarely - if ever - backup the catalog, I hadn't optimized in a long time. I had never found that it improved anything much, until now.

Is that because your catalog is backed up some other way, or because you like living dangerously

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6. Lee Jay,

Jun 14, 2012 6:52 PM in reply to CSS Simon

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CSS Simon wrote:

Lee Jay wrote:

Since I rarely - if ever - backup the catalog, I hadn't optimized in a long time. I had never found that it improved anything much, until now.
Is that because your catalog is backed up some other way, or because you like living dangerously

Both, and neither.

I don't really need the catalogs as I can always just re-import. I don't use any LR features that aren't stored in the XMP data.

Backing up has not proven to be useful to me. When I used to do it, I had catalogs go corrupt occasionally, and all my backups proved to either lose me too much work or also have unseen corruption.

I do backup my current catalog to backup drives and another machine so if something were to happen that shows up immediately, I'd have a backup. If, as has happened before the corruption doesn't show up for a while (sometimes a long while), having backups that go back several months to find ones without corruption is just a huge waste of time.

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7. hamish niven,

Jun 14, 2012 11:40 PM in reply to Lee Jay

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Optimizing and backuping your catalog

Its only really necessary if you want to keep your images and your edits, work professionally or shoot RAW, otherwise, its just an effort when you want to turn off your computer after editing a few images.

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8. Dorin Nicolaescu-Musteață,

Jun 15, 2012 12:58 AM in reply to Lee Jay

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I don't use any LR features that aren't stored in the XMP data.

What about books, web galleries and such?

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9. Dorin Nicolaescu-Musteață,

Jun 15, 2012 1:05 AM in reply to Lee Jay

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I personally don't use the built-in backup feature. Therefore, I too optimize the catalog sporadically.

I think the real reason of this post, was to point our attention that starting with 4.1, not only the main catalog is being optimized, but laso the two smaller databases that are a part of the preview cache.

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10. Lee Jay,

Jun 15, 2012 5:58 AM in reply to Dorin Nicolaescu-Musteață

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Dorin Nicolaescu-Musteață wrote:

I don't use any LR features that aren't stored in the XMP data.

What about books, web galleries and such?

I've never opened the Web module and don't know what it's for. I've played with Book, but have no real need to use it.

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