Feb 18, 2016, 03:27
(Feb 18, 2016, 02:37)Jocko Wrote: Yesterday was a photographic disaster, computer wise. I discovered that there was an update for Lightroom, so I duly updated my software from Lightroom 6.3 to 6.4. That went fine, but when I tried to access the internet using Google Chrome (my browser of choice), it would hang at New Tab. After the usual shutting down and restarting, and confirming Google was working fine using Microsoft Edge, I reinstalled Google Chrome. That made no difference.
I then did a system restore back to a point earlier in the day, and that cured my browser issue, but now Lightroom saw an error with the catalogue and nothing I did let me past that. I decided to bite the bullet and reinstall Lightroom from disc, so that took me back to Version 6.0. The problem now was, with no catalogue, all the work I had done on the raw images was lost. In itself that wasn't a huge loss. I usually like to start from scratch when I revisit an image, but it was a loss, nevertheless. I then had issues trying to update back to 6.4 but got there in the end, with everything working.
Lying awake in the early hours I figured that, when I first updated to 6.4 the catalogue would update too. After the system restore back to 6.3 the software didn't recognise the catalogue. Luckily, the old catalogue was in the Recycle Bin, and when I restored it this morning I got back to full functionality. Thank goodness. You never had all those hassles in a darkroom!
Well done !
John