2 Replies Latest reply: Sep 2, 2009 4:38 PM by J McWilliams RSS

    How do I make my Catalog Settings stay the same for each new Catalog I create?

    BradKaye Community Member

      How to you set a default Catalog Settings parameter that is different from what the Adobe engineers have set us with?

       

      I have 30" monitors here, so I want the standard preview size of every new catalog to be set to 2048 pixels.

       

      I redundantly back up my catalogs via two different layers of hardware mirroring, so 'no' I don't want prompted once a week when I open one of various catalogs if I want to backup right then.

       

      I have 50+ Terabytes of removable mirrored hard drive space, with individual project libraries that feed into 1.5TB master removable disk libraries, so I'd like to, by default, NEVER discard 1:1 previews, at least until Lightroom gets about 2000% faster in rendering them on the fly.

       

      This is of hot topic for me since I just noticed Lightroom had been discarding 1:1 previews that I had spent large amounts of time creating just over a month ago as I've begun transitioning my archives from Aperture to LIghtroom.  At any point, I'll maybe have access to only 1/15th of the actual DNG's in my catalog because they're offline, so keeping full sized previews of archived files is extremely important for my workflow.