Post by BuckSkin on Dec 17, 2018 5:41:01 GMT
After watching a video about Lightroom, I got curious and fired up the version that had been lying dormant in my machine for quite some time.
Version 2015 CC I believe is what the "About" said it was.
About three years ago, I got the full package on a free deal; and, considering that it is touted to be the end all of photo management, I took advantage and installed it on two of our machines.
Once it was installed, I poked around with it one evening and then shut it down, never to be seen again until a few minutes ago.
Watching the video prompted me to give it another investigation.
Right off the bat, I ran against a huge deal-breaker for me; Lightroom refuses to admit the existence of my two photo drives/discs.
It was displaying the system reserves and boot drives of three of my operating systems, the main drives of all three, the "User" folders of half-a-dozen users that were created for the sole purpose of network-connecting all of our machines, the libraries that I never use, and the Kindle that just happened to be USB-connected at the time.
It loaded the only photos that it could find ---- the some over three thousand that were on the Kindle, but it would not/could not see my two main photo drives -- Drive (A:) and Drive (B:)
I nosed around in the various settings and such and could not find a means of connecting with drives A and B and gave up on that.
Then, with no input from me, it started to copy the images from the Kindle to a different folder somewhere on my (C:) drive; behavior I definitely did not need.
It became obvious to me that Lightroom does not want to cope with my way of doing things; it seems to want everything in a single folder and set of sub-folders and then load every image it finds therein.
I just wanted to browse to a folder of practice images and experiment around; but, then again, my practice images were on Drive (A:)
There were some features on the video that were appealing, but the disadvantages outweighed the advantages for me; I guess I will stick with digiKam.
Version 2015 CC I believe is what the "About" said it was.
About three years ago, I got the full package on a free deal; and, considering that it is touted to be the end all of photo management, I took advantage and installed it on two of our machines.
Once it was installed, I poked around with it one evening and then shut it down, never to be seen again until a few minutes ago.
Watching the video prompted me to give it another investigation.
Right off the bat, I ran against a huge deal-breaker for me; Lightroom refuses to admit the existence of my two photo drives/discs.
It was displaying the system reserves and boot drives of three of my operating systems, the main drives of all three, the "User" folders of half-a-dozen users that were created for the sole purpose of network-connecting all of our machines, the libraries that I never use, and the Kindle that just happened to be USB-connected at the time.
It loaded the only photos that it could find ---- the some over three thousand that were on the Kindle, but it would not/could not see my two main photo drives -- Drive (A:) and Drive (B:)
I nosed around in the various settings and such and could not find a means of connecting with drives A and B and gave up on that.
Then, with no input from me, it started to copy the images from the Kindle to a different folder somewhere on my (C:) drive; behavior I definitely did not need.
It became obvious to me that Lightroom does not want to cope with my way of doing things; it seems to want everything in a single folder and set of sub-folders and then load every image it finds therein.
I just wanted to browse to a folder of practice images and experiment around; but, then again, my practice images were on Drive (A:)
There were some features on the video that were appealing, but the disadvantages outweighed the advantages for me; I guess I will stick with digiKam.
