Sign In: Problem and Resolution

Sign In:
Problem:
Others and I have had to go through several steps to sign in to this Community/Consumer forum
From a forum user here on page 6
"The log in process is still combersome.
every time I log in, it gives me the error "The message you are trying to access has been deleted. Please update your bookmarks."
I have to click the button under that statement, then click the back button on the brouser, then click "sign in" just to get it working.
And this happens every time I log in. Somebody needs to get some bug spray :-)"
Solution:
Ensure that you access the Forum Home page at this link: http://h30434.www3.hp.com/psg/
Click on Sign In and then you will be taken to HP Passport
After signing in on Passport you will be automatically be returned to the Forums Home page.
Reason:
If you access the forum from a link in a notification within your e-mail for a post for which you checked the box "E-mail me when someone replies", you will encounter the problem first noted above. After you follow the e-mail link to the forum DO NOT sign in then but instead:
Click on Forum Home (located in the row just under Sign In) and Log in to HP Passport then you are taken to Forum Home and then you must find the post you wanted to access.
Fix by Adminstrators:
Can you fix this "bug" so we can sign in at the post in the thread that our e-mail linked us to?
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Others and I have had to go through several steps to sign in to this Community/Consumer forum
From a forum user here on page 6
I don't see page 6.
My forum does not have a page 6, so the forum did not know what to do, and asked me, if I wanted page 1, 2, or 3. It was a little confused.
It was funny. It did not know what to do.
Because I have my settings to show the max number of posts per page.
Here's what page it's on for me: :-)
http://h30434.www3.hp.com/psg/board/message?board.id=Hardware&thread.id=12&view=by_date_ascending&pa...
Well this link should work. :-)
http://h30434.www3.hp.com/psg/board/message?board.id=Hardware&message.id=663#M663
Here is what page 6 looks like to me. :-)
http://h30434.www3.hp.com/psg/board/message?board.id=Hardware&thread.id=12&view=by_date_ascending&pa...
Wayne Sallee
[email protected]
Message Edited by Wayne_Sallee on 12-03-2008 09:41 PM
Message Edited by Wayne_Sallee on 12-03-2008 09:43 PM

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The causes of instability and crashes may have NOTHING to do with catalog size. Of course, the cause MAY have everything to do with catalog size. I just don't think you are coming to the right conclusion, as in my experience size of catalog and stability issues are unrelated.
2. I may be wrong, but in my experience the size of the RAW file may significantly blow up the amount of retouching-related data.
Your experience is your experience, and my experience is different. I want to state clearly that you can have pretty big RAW files that have different content and not require significant amounts of retouching. It's not the size of the RAW that determines the amount of touchup, it is the content and the eye of the user. Furthermore, item 2 was related to image size, and now you have changed the meaning of number 2 from image size to the amount of retouching required. So, what is your point? Lots of retouching blows up the amount of retouching data that needs to be stored? Yeah, I agree.
When creating the catalog for the 1500 NEF files (21 GB), the starting size of the catalog file was around 1 GB. This must have included all classification-related information (the meaningful part of which was practically nothing, since I had not used rating, classification, or collections). By the time of the crash half of the files had been processed, so the actual retouching-related data (that should have been converted properly into the XMP files) might be only around 500 MB. Consequently, probably 22.5 GB out of the 24 GB of the catalog file contained historical information
I don't know exactly what you do to touch up your photos, I can't imagine how you come up with the size should be around 500MB. But again, to you this problem is entirely caused by the size of the catalog, and I don't think it is. Now, having said that, some of your problem with slowness may indeed be related to the amount of touch-up that you are doing. Lightroom is known to slow down if you do lots of spot removal and lots of brushing, and then you may be better off doing this type of touch-up in Photoshop. Again, just to be 100% clear, the problem is not "size of catalog", the problem is you are doing so many adjustments on a single photo. You could have a catalog that is just as large, (i.e. that has lots more photos with few adjustments) and I would expect it to run a lot faster than what you are experiencing.
So to sum up, you seem to be implying that slowness and catalog instability are the same issue, and I don't buy it. You seem to be implying that slowness and instability are both caused by the size of the catalog, and I don't buy that either.
Re-reading your original post, you are putting the backups on the SSD, the same disk as the working catalog? This is a very poor practice, you need to put your backups on a different physical disk. That alone might help your space issues on the SSD.

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