Slideshow's Auto Advance

Is there a way to defeat the auto advance in slideshow, that is, causing the slide duration to be infinite?
If not, is there a way to pause the slideshow when it is running in Acrobat or Acrobat Reader, then restart it later from where it was paused?
Thanks,
Lanny T.

Not without a lot more details on what you've done.

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>Here is the trick (Adobe Reader 8, Macintosh). Go to Preferences, Full Screen. Make sure the "Advance every xxx seconds" box is checked, and that xxx is set to a number of seconds equal to or greater than the slide duration you specified in Lightroom. (If greater than, the Lightroom setting will prevail.)
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Forgive me, but this is really confusing me. You said to make sure the "Advance every xxx seconds" box in Reader is checked, but then you said that if it's UNchecked, there will no auto advance. The way I'm reading this, these two statements contradict each other. Which way do you set it to stop the auto advance?
You also said to make sure the xxx number in Reader is set to a number of seconds equal or greater to the LR setting, but than you said that if it's "greater than," LR's setting will prevail. If the LR setting prevails, how is this preventing auto advance? By saying to set it to "equal or greater than" the LR value, it seems like you're saying that you'll get a certain behavior for BOTH cases (i.e. both 'equal' AND 'greater than' will result in a certain behavior.) What specific aspect of the behavior are you referring to when you say to set it "equal or greater than" the LR value?
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I just had a thought. I am going to go play the slides NOT in random order and see if I can find any pattern. In the meantime, any help is greatly appreciated.

Okay, I answered my own question. My thought about unchecking "Random Order" and then playing the slides quickly showed me the problem files. There were a handful of files that had a black circle with an exclamation point in them. This circle was where the question mark normally goes if LR can't find a file. When I clicked on the exclamation point, it said LR could not access the file, or something like that. I simply changed the rating on those images from 5 stars down to 4, which effectively removed them from my smart collection without having to delete them from my catalog. At some point, I'll go back and figure out what the problem was with those files, but at least my slideshow is back up and running!
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