Back up catalogue to a new place?

The next time I back up a catalogue I'd like it to go to a new place (I want to put everything in the cloud so it's going to a dropbox folder). How would I tell it to do that so that it backs up there each time? Thanks.

Well actually another question. The catalog isn't the actual photo files right? Am I right that the actual files (eg the jpegs) get auto stored under the "Pictures" folder, which then has sub-folders by date. So if I want to move everything to the cloud, it's these I have to move aswell as the catalog?

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Gettting Ready to switch from PC to MAC-Can I use my back-up catalogue?

Hi! I am getting ready to switch from PC to MAC. My pics and back-up catalogue files are on an external hard drive. I am wondering if I can just use an up-to-date back-up catalogue to place in lightroom on my new MAC and then be up to speed. Will that work?
Thanks so much, Leora

Yes, this should be fine! You may wish to give your catalog (the .lrcat) a new name (prefix) when you first copy it to your Mac. This will force build a new Previews folder on the new machine, sometimes a very good thing; sometimes wholly unnecessary.....

Add new Place to Time Zone tab in Sys Prefs

I have seen a couple of posts on other forums, plus a similar request, here on the iPhoto09 forum, but not had any success with this yet. I want to do this for the same reason as the OP on the iPhoto forum...so iPhoto Places defaults to an area local to myself
The procedure I have seen ( see links below) seems to refer to OS ver 10.2. I have tried it on my system (10.5.8) and I can't seem to get it to work.
Basically it involves editing
MacintoshHD/System/library/PreferencesPanes/DateandTime.prefpane
--- Show package Contents
Contents/Resources/TimeZone.prefPane
--- Show package Contents
Contents/Resources/allcitiesadj.plist
Contents/Resources/English.lproj/Localizable_Cities.strings.
Needed to change read /write permissions to edit the file(s), then changed them back after editing.
The original article in http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20020831074937191 refers to changing ownership of the files, from System to User and then back again. I cant see an option to change ownership, but could see red write attributes so I changed that to allow editing of the files. I do notice now that the two files, now show user as owner of the files not System. maybe this is why this procedue is not working
I added the new Place in allcitiesadj.plist
<array>
<string>49.120000</string>
<string>-2.070000</string>
<string>11</string>
<string>Europe/London</string>
<string>GB</string>
<string>Jersey</string>
<string>England</string>
</array>
And added an entry to Localizable_Cities strings for Jersey:
"Jakarta" = "Jakarta";
"Jerusalem" = "Jerusalem";
"Jersey" = "Jersey";
"Kabul" = "Kabul";
"Kampala" = "Kampala";
Restarted the machine, but Jersey still does not appear in the Time Zone tab.
Anyone give me any pointers here?
Here are the links I have seen so far:
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=9961503#9961503
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=643917
which links to
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20020831074937191

Solved.
It was because editing the files in Text Edit changed the file ownership. Had to use Terminal and chown to revert ownership back to system.
Using TextMate would have done it without changing the file ownership.
Neil

Using iPod location services to find my way round new places

I like to use location services with map apps (such as OffMaps and MapsWithMe) to help me find my way around new places.
I understand that the information ipod uses for location services, the positions of various wifi transmitters, is stored in an Apple database and that the location result is likely to be very approximate. My problem is that I cant figure out how and when the relevant data arrives in my ipod. Typically it seems that when in a new town, during my first wander round the place, the ipod does not know where it is - locations will not be shown on these map apps. On subsequent travels through the town iPod does seem to know where it is and displays its location on the maps quite nicely. (But by then of course I too know my way around and so don't need theiPod;s assistance so much to help figure out where I am.)
So my questions are
1) At what point does the ipod get to store the crucial location information? I'm wondering for instance whether the ipod remembers the SSIDs as it encounters them, but only learns about their locations when it is next connected to the internet?
2) I'd like to know how much of this information the iPod can remember and for how long is it remembered. (If I go back to a place visited last year will any of the previously "learnt" locations be remembered by the iPod. I may well have forgotten my way round the place by then and the iPod's help would be useful)
3) Is it possible to "teach" the ipod about known wifi locations in a particular geographical area before visiting the area. That would be a tremendous boon to me.

Good questions. However, I have never seen or heard about any information from Apple about how the iPod (and wifi-only iPad) really determine location. I am waiting for answers from other users.

Many of My Places silently updated by iPhoto to New Place

iPhoto 8.0.4 silently changed 49 of the names I had defined in My Places and they are now all called New Place.
The location of the pin of each of the 49 places has not been altered by iPhoto and I will be able to use Manage My Places to edit the names once again.
Due to bugs in the earlier versions of iPhoto '09 I had postponed using places and had set the preferences for Look up places to Never.
Now with a Nikon GP-1 and the newest iPhoto '09 I was hoping Places was ready for prime time.
The location from the Nikon GP-1 shows up in iPhoto, but the place was not updated and no pin was available.
After changing the preferences for Look up places to automatic the pins appeared correctly.
However after the update many of my places previously defined had been renamed by iPhoto to "New Place".
The 49 original names are lost, but I can go back and redefine the names. Bloody annoying, but it's a one time job... I hope... Unless...
Should I expect this to happen if I toggle the preferences in the future?

You have bad data in your EXIF fields on your photos
At one time early on someone posted that iPhoto was switching the sign (making negative locations positive as I remember) on some Geo Data - if these are old photos that have been in iPhoto for a while that might be what the problem is - export one and look at the EXIF data in preview or with a third party program like CD Finder Inspector - http://www.cdfinder.de/en/en/geotagging.html
LN

Cannot Back-Up Catalogue-Low Disk Space

Elements 9. I get a low disk space-free up space message. I have had this happen enough to know that it is a problem with my "C" Drive, not my destination drive with 3TB. My "C" drive is 2TB and I have lots of media. I would like to know how I transfer all my media to an external drive and easily link the catalogue with the new drive without major problems. I prefer not to manually reconnect 25,000 files!!
Thanks for your help!

schoolofhardknocks wrote:
Thanks, but right now I can't do a back-up because I keep getting an error message that my drive is too full, and it must mean my C drive because my external has plenty of room.
Do you get the message when in editor, in organizer or both ?
Which operating system ? I suppose Windows : XP, Vista or Win 7 32 or 64bits ?
From the explorer, when you right click on C: to show properties, how much free space is shown ?
Now, when in the editor, look at the preferences/ performance. What is shown in the scratch disk box for C: ?
Not sure I am able to guide you from there, but I am sure Windows experts can help you with that info.
Yes, no problem about your second question : moving from within the organizer in folder view keeps the right drive/path correctly.
Another question : what is PGT ?

Says catalogue is too new

When trying to access my lightroom 4 catalogue a box shows up saying this catalogue is too new. What does this mean? I have recently had my computer wiped clean but everything was put back on...I think...
I have alot of work in the Lr catalogue 4. help

I think it means that you are not opening Lr4 but Lr3. Lr3 cannot read the catalog once it has been updated by Lr4.
When youinstall Lr4 it doesn't touch Lr3. Both programs can co-exist, and both programs can be used on the same system - but not at the same time.
Check your desktop shortcuts where they are pointing to.

HT201250 I use Time Machine to back up my entire computer with my external hard drive. I am getting a brand new iMac this month and was wondering what is the process of using this back up to restore my new computer exactly how my old computer was?

I use Time Machine to back up my entire computer with my external hard drive. I am getting a brand new iMac this month and was wondering what is the process of using this back up to restore my new computer exactly how my old computer was? I want to make sure I will still have various important files on my new computer, like my songs in iTunes, my photos in iPhoto, etc, etc. Thanks so much in advance!

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I bought new i phone 5 3 days back, after that asked for new update which is 6.1.4, after updating my iphone i am not able to use cellular data services. I called up data provider, they says its the problem with new software update. There is no option add

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http://support.apple.com/kb/ts3780
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Sync with new computer?
https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-3141

How to create a new place in iPhoto 11 without doing any harm?

Yes, I know how to create a new place for a photo -- theoretically:
Select the photo.
Make sure the Info icon in the lower right portion of the iPhoto window is clicked and the too-tiny-for-any-but-the-youngest-eyes map is displaying.
Click in "Assign a Place..." and begin typing a place that iPhoto will search for. It searches in both "your places" (i.e., those that you have already defined) as well as in Google Maps.
When you see a place in the search results list that you think might be close to the one you mean, select it.
A pin appears on the itsy-bitsy map. Move it to the exact place you mean. You can make controls appear on the map by moving the mouse over the bottom of the map. The controls allow you to zoom in and out, and to change views (Terrain, Satellite, Hybrid). When the pin is where you want it, click it. The current name of the location appears. Modify it to the name you want, then click the check mark.
That's "all" there is to it ... except for a couple of "gotchas."
There's a difference between what happens when you select a place that you've defined and when you select a place that Google found in the search results. If it's a place that you've defined, and you then move the pin to a new location and/or change its name, this will affect all photos assigned to the custom place. In effect, you are modifying the place.
All places have a radius associated with them, thereby making them circles. You can adjust the radius only in the Maintain My Places window. In the itsy-bitsy map it doesn't even appear. However, if the newly defined place overlaps existing ones, all the photos assigned to the overlapped places will be assigned to the new one. Their pins will remain where they were.
Now, before anybody suggests sending feedback to Apple, let me emphasize that I have been sending Apple feedback on the wrong-headed implementation of Places since iPhoto 9.0. New versions have come and gone (the current one is 9.1.2), but these "features" have remained. So my purpose in opening this thread is to consolidate work arounds to these "features" in one place. My work around:
Whenever I define a new place, I select only a single photo. I try to name my places so that I can distinguish them from those that Google finds. In order to avoid Gotcha 1 I select a place that Google finds and try to place the pin close enough to where I want it, but far enough from any other places that I've defined. I give it a name that I can easily find it Manage My Place.
I immediately open Manage My Places and select the new place. I first note the pins near it, then decrease its radius, move the pin to the desired location, note the nearby places, and give it its final name.
I then view Places and navigate to the new place to view the photos assigned to it. If I'm lucky, there's only one. Otherwise, I have to reassign the other photos to their correct places.
Richard

So... in the hope it will not confuse folks more, let me be more specific of a procedure that works for me...
Procedure to create a new My Places location.
OK there is more you can do with a non-GPS Coord linked photo.
Click Info and then click Assign a Place in the lower right of screen. (if your photo has a location linked to it already the Assign a Place will NOT show up.)
Choose a location name near the actual location that Google Maps can find.
Click that location in the Google Maps list that appears and your photo will be temporarily assigned to that location.
Now type over that location name in order to make sure to give that location a unique name that will show up in your My Places list and click that name after you have typed it to be sure it is accepted.
Now in iPhoto click Window/Manage My Places and go the that newly named location in the large My Places map. There's no easy search. You have to run down through the alphabetical list.
Drag the flag to the location you want this place to be and click Done.
The location name is now in your My Places list at the location you dragged the flag to!
It is important to note that only your unique named locations show up in your Places list, so if you want to modify the location coordinates you have to establish a unique name for it.
This is much more complicated that previous iPhoto versions!
But Yeah!!!!!!!!!!
It really works!!!!!!!

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External hard drive that stored music has crashed. How can I safely get my songs from my I Pod back onto computer into a new external drive?

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https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2452022?start=0&tstart=0
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Lightroom 5 file edited in photoshop cc 2014 does not appear back next to original after save. Is anyone else having this issue? If so what is the fix. The edited image appears back in lightroom in a new folder.

Lightroom 5 file edited in photoshop cc 2014 does not appear back next to original after save. Is anyone else having this issue? If so what is the fix. The edited image appears back in lightroom in a new folder.

I'm performing a normal "Save", not "Save As". Work flow I'm using is as follows: Select photo in Lightroom 5.7 >" Edit In" Photoshop CC 2014 > (after working on photo is PS) > Save > close PS. Photo returns to Lightroom 5.7 in a new folder rather than next to the original. Prior to purchasing the monthly plan and upgrading to PS CC 2014, I performed this same work flow using Lightroom 5.6 and Photoshop CS6 without any issues.
Just for fun... I attempted to move the edited file back into the original folder. I received a prompt that said the file already existed in the original folder, however I can't see it except the new folder that LR created. I tried several different sort orders, etc without any success.
*** Follow up: Was unable to resolve the issue using Photoshop CC 2014. Uninstalled PS CC 2014 and went back to using Photoshop CS6. Return trips from LR 5.7 to Photoshop is now performing as it should: returning edited photo back to the original folder in LR 5 and placing next to the original image.
Should anyone have a suggestion on getting Photoshop CC 2014 to do the same, I would love to be educated.
Thanks for the help, dj_paige.

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