Two killer flaws in Lightroom 1.0

I've found two killer flaws in Lightroom 1.0: (2) is that it is sloooooowwww generating printout pages from RAW files. Also creating web pages from RAW files. Come to think of it, it is slow in everything I've tried to do, much slower than iView Media Pro in everything they both do.
But the real major killer for me is that it doesn't play nice with memory. It has a REALLY MAJOR memory leak. I've never seen one so bad before. I set it to produce 24 pages of contact sheets, and before it was half finished, it had sucked up 6 GB of RAM, and then proceeded to massage my hard drive for a LONG time. (remember, it is slow. especially when grinding on the drive.) Worse, it manages to not let go of that RAM when quit. My usual tactic of running the cron scripts to free up that RAM didn't do the job, either, forcing me to reboot. In fact, I've rebooted at least six time this afternoon, and that is not counting the time Lightroom crashed taking OS X down with it.
Guys, I love the ability to apply adjustments and corrections, crops, etc. non-destructively to my RAW files, but you gotta fix these two drawbacks.

If you are having crashes on Mac on your machine then I think you are having problems that are specific to your machine. There are known issues with Lightroom under Windows, but frequent crashing on Mac is _NOT_ normal.
As far as being slow doing printing or web pages...it's only slow if you haven't generated previews...cause it first must make the previews then rip the prints or web pages. If you have previews, everything you do with them is a lot faster...if you do draft mode contact sheets the creation of the contact sheets fly as long as you have previews.

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Is it possible to tether/capture two cameras in to Lightroom during the same session?

I would like to tether two cameras into one system using lightroom. Will Lightroom support two cameras at the same time?

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Success! I think I have gotten to the bottom of this now. With the latest version of Jeffrey Friedl's Flickr plugin you can indeed populate both the sets and groups.
The link provided by Victoria to Jeffrey's blog allows you only to populate the "photostream" collection in the publish services of Lightroom.
However further down in the settings of the jf Flickr plugin there is a part entitled:
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I did this and synced nearly 7000 photos in Flickr in a lot of sets that it automatically added and located the vast majority of them in my Lightroom library, which contains about 45,000 images. It all took maybe half an hour to run, so it was slow (even with a fast internet connection) but worked! I am a happy camper!
A bonus that I was not looking for but discovered is that this plugin will also sync with Flickr groups.
The version I used is http://regex.info/LightroomPlugins2/releases/flickr-20130324.298.zip
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I have two versions of Lightroom installed on my computer, can I uninstall the older version?

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Jim,
I thought it was odd that I had two versions of Lightroom installed as well. I have been able to track the issue back to an apparent "bug" in the Lightroom 5.2 update that installed a second version of Lightroom in addition to updating the existing version on my computers. At the time, I posted about it at Lightroom 5 installed twice on my laptop. While I never got an answer to my question, which was "Is this normal?" I did hear from others in the forum the experienced the same problem and had the same question. As time passed, later releases updated one of the two installations, but did not effect the second. Hence, two different versions of Lightroom 5 installed on the same computer.
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Lightroom not merging and sorting images from two different cameras - help please !!

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Two missing "Killer-features"

Hi,
although i really love Aperture, there are two really important features missing for me - and i'd like to know, how u handle these:
1. Comparing before/after adjustments
2. Quick Collection
Well, i know both is possible to do (duplicate version, keywords), but these solutions are less convenient (i.e. take more time) than Lightroom's solutions.
So what do u do?

Sekoya wrote:
If i have to do this often - and i have to - it's way more work than just clicking a single button (twice).
Just out of curiosity (so I can learn something about LR), which key is that in LR? And what two states are compared? Obviously one is the current state of the image. Is the other one the default state (ie, no adjustment except those optionally applied upon import)?
I agree, one key only is simpler. But personally I am happy with the switch between master and adjusted version via M in Aperture. Moreover, comparing to the master is something I rarely need, I rather often want to compare between two versions (eg, one with more contrast and one with less) and that requires two versions anyway.
Well, "M" just works, if before u produced a slave. So two keys.
In Lightroom it's "Y", and compares the image u just see, before and after u apply changes.
Clearly i have to select the images, but then i just press "b" - to put them into "Quick Collection". The uncomfortable point in Aperture - at least for me - is, that if i create a new album, i have to drag new images into it. Or i have to select ALL images i want to put into that new Album at once.
But maybe i dont get the point.
Unfortunately, I think I am missing something as well. I thought in LR, you can select a number of image, hit a key (b) and create a quick collection. The equivalent in AP would be to do exactly the same, select a number of images hit two key (cmd-K or cmd-L) and create an album or a stack that contains the images. What would be the difference here between LR and AP?
But what if later you want to add images to the album? In Aperture i have to drag it into, do i?
In Lightroom i still just press "B".
I really like many thing in Aperture, and would like to switch, just these two things are important in my workflow.

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I've searched all over for a soution.   I can not tolerate the lack of responsiveness that Lightroom 3 has when it comes to working on my RAW files.   Here's my system info...bear in mind that I was working on 1 NEF file
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Fulvio

As stated elsethread, 32-bit Windows operating systems can address 4Gb of memory. In general, out of the box installs will allow user processes 2Gb of that. So Lr has access to 2Gb for the static application and for the memory it uses at run time. This 2Gb also has to be shared by other processes, so the OS provides virtual memory to let applications grow as necessary, up to that 4Gb limit.
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What other processes are using up real memory? Which ones demand to be paged in from virtual memory (which could slow down other applications like Lr)?
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Larry you fail to mention that using an external editor with iPhoto will not allow you to save your changes back into the iPhoto library.
Unfortunate you simply are ignorant of how iPhoto works - when you use an external editor with iPhoto and save the edited photo it is returned to the iPhoto database and the iPhoto database is updated correctly.
There are many Apple apologists on these forums
No - but since these forums are for iPhoto support the users here are very experienced iPhoto users and do use iPhoto a lot - no apologies - just CORRECT information on how to use iPhoto (and if it will not doe what you want sometimes suggestions on where to go to do what yo want)
and they will either try to convince you that other software is not as good
I certainly have NEVER seen this - every piece of software has good and bad points - and again remember *this is an iPhoto support forum*.
or totally ignore newbie users whom want to know how they can do something in iPhoto when it is not possible due to it's limitations.
Once again this is simply incorrect - unfortunately you have no idea how iPhoto works or how to use it
Rather, in my opinion I prefer to be honest
Honest maybe - but very unknowledgeable
and if another application does a function that iPhoto doesn't then I would personally point that out.
Good plan - the problem is that you simply are ignorant of how iPhoto works and what it can do so con are posting erroneous information making false claims
Your totally incorrect posts are unnecessary and could be confusing to users who want information - as the TOU state please TEST your assumptions before you post them here - totally incorrect posts like yours are not the least bit helpful
LN
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