> Every bodies mileage is going to be different. Not everybody has had problems. Instead of inflaming the ongoing problems that exist, why don't you go download the trial and make your own subjective decision instead. Come on back when you have had a chance to do your own objective analysis and ask important questions related to the actual use of the product.

Why so defensive? It's a fact that a significant number of people have had problems. Just read the posts on this board or others. I'm not trying to inflame anything, just find out how other people think this release compares to LR 1.4.

If Adobe didn't make the LR 2 catalog incompatible with LR 1, I'd install it and figure I'll just go back if it has problems. But, I've learned that the only way I can really find out how well it works is to do real work with the new release. That means putting my new work in a LR 2 catalog which can't be used by LR 1. While I could go back to my original LR 1 catalog if LR 2 had too many problems, I'd then lose all the work I'd done in LR 2 and I don't want to do that. When I spend hours on my work, I don't want to lose it.

If you'd read my initial message, you'd see I don't need a trial version - I've already purchased the upgrade and I will go with it at some point because I'm a LR supporter. I'm just trying to decide whether to wait for 2.1 to install or not. I hate wasting time or losing work with buggy or poor performing software products so I'm interested in avoiding that fiasco with LR.

I asked for other people's experiences compared with LR 1.4 so I can gauge how people think it compares to their 1.4 experience. That's all. No inflaming intended, just soliciting some other people's experiences.

Thanks Dave, David, Lee and Olaf for feedback on how it went for you. I'd love to hear from others.