Issues & Things to Avoid in Lightroom

Video Transcript

"BRANDON SARKIS: My name is Brandon Sarkis on behalf of Expert Village. Today, I'm going to be showing you how to use Adobe's Lightroom software. Now, I'd like to take a second to discuss a couple of the features that aren't compatible with "Leopard." You'll see the Print module does not come up. You get an error occurred. That only happens in Leopard, on the Mac. It doesn't happen on the PC version. Evidently, Adobe's aware of this and they say that in the 1.3 version they're going to address it. At the time being, you get a big, old, fat error message when you try to use the Print demo. So you have to export stuff, and then, print it out which is another step and it's kind of a pain but it's not a complete and total disaster. It's something you could easily work around. It's just not that cool. And the problem is time machine. Let's right click here. So we'll open up the Preferences. What happens is, is there's a problem with the Leopard's time machine working the way it's supposed to with photo libraries. It's the same problem in Aperture and it's the same problem in Lightroom. Evidently, what happens is if time machine tries to make a backup while your library is open, you will see some really weird file corruption. You'll see files go missing. You'll see files get retagged and you'll see image files that don't match up. So we're going to go under "Options" here. Actually, evidently, it's trying to run a backup right now, which means it's going to be interesting to do. So we'll click on "Options" and we'll see, these are the items that I have set to "not backup" just a couple of other hard drives. So what you would do is you would go in here and click on this little plus sign and it brings up a window. And then from here, you would scroll down to, like for example, I would scroll down to let's say "pictures." And we'll click on wherever I didn't want it to mess with my Lightroom backups. Mine are all on an external drive. But if you had an internal drive, or had 'em stored internally, it can be a problem. So what I would recommend is either to keep all of your Lightroom and Aperture photos external, or turn the feature to manual backups only, not automatic backups. I have had some data corruption with Lightroom. Luckily, it was photos that I had backups so it wasn't a big deal. I just had to erase my library and start over. But thanks a lot for watching my video and I hope you enjoyed it and most of this should apply to the Windows version, as well as the Mac version, so have a good one."