Upgrade to LR3 from LR2

I mainly use LR as an image catalog, and quick edits like exposure adjustments (batch). For the fine tune editing and post processing, I still resort to Photoshop. Do you guys think it's a cost effective upgrade from LR2 to LR3? Thanks.
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Yes, absolutely: upgrade.
Lr3 is better, period (why not use it instead of Lr2?)
The upgrade price to me is so reasonable that its a no-brainer.
I mean unless you just cant afford it, in which case I'd say hold off until you can afford it, then buy it...
But, try it first to make sure it runs OK on your system.
PS - I only use a fraction of the features in Lr3, but many of the ones I use are better than they were in Lr2 - I assume the same would hold true for you.
PPS - I mean, there are no real ground-breaking improvements in the native cataloging features, so if thats really all you care about, then I suppose it may not be worth it. Still, I encourage upgrading just the same - Adobe can and will use the money to make Lightroom better in the future...
Rob

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Catalog hell since upgrading to LR3 from LR2. Please help.

Ever since I upgraded from LR2 to LR3 I've been in a hellish runaround with my catalog. Whenever I start up LR3 a dialog box pops up asking me to "Please upgrade the catalog file "Lightroom_Catalog (original)" for use with Lightroom 3." It then makes a new catalog file. The problem is that I'm asked this question every time I open LR3 and I haven't had time, until now, to research the problem and I now have 3 different catalogs. AND when I allow it to upgrade the file I'm now getting a pop up saying "LR couldn't update the format of its catalog file because the file appears to be damaged." As far as I'm concerned LR3 is what damaged it in the first place. What can I do? I have jobs coming up and I just need LR to work and I need access to my catalog of photos. PLEASE help!
Forever in your debt if you can help.
Anita

How do you start Lightroom? Do you start via a Lightroom Icon or by double clicking on a catalog file within Windows Explorer or some other shortcut?
Keep in mind that when Lightroom 3 upgrades your catalog, the catalog is saved under a different name, usually the original name with a "-2" appended at the end of the name. Your original Lightroom 2 catalog remains untouched, so if you keep opening that version it will ask you if you want to upgrade it again or if you want to open the Lightroom 3 version.
Hope this shelds some light on your issue, otherwise please let us know so we can continue troubleshooting.

How do I move my library from LR2 to LR3 please?

I have both LR2 and 3. I have images saved on both versions of Lightroom on the same Mac but I now wish to transfer all my images from LR2 to LR3. I have LR2 backup files (Lightroom 2 Catalog.lrcat) up to a couple of days ago, can I use this and import in one fell swoop and if so how do I do it please?

LR 3 will upgrade a single catalog but if you have separate catalogs you will have to export the LR2 catalog first.
See this link on merging multiple Lightroom catalogs:
http://lightroomkillertips.com/2009/video-merging-multiple-lightroom-catalogs/

Upgrading from LR2 to LR5: Catalog file appears damaged.

I upgraded from LR2 to LR5. I also moved files from an older mac to a new storage drive and am running LR5 on a new mac. When I try to import & open lrcat2 I get the message that "catalog file appears to be damaged."
I tried optimizing lrcat2 on old computer but that didn't help. LR 2 runs fine on the old mac too. What is happening here??

Hi,
try to select all images and export the images as "new catalog" (if availiable in LR2, I do no know). You need not to export previews and images itself.

LR3 using LR2 history

To try out LR3, I exported a half dozen M9 DNG files as originals into a folder from Lr2. These were not exported as DNG but as originals . Then I imported the test files into LR3 and to Capture One. My objective was to see how the raw conversion improved and how it compared to the two raw convertors I currently use. In C1 the files opened as originals ..this was easy to see as one file was cropped in LR2. In LR3 the files came in and the full history was applied from LR2. I was not using any .xmp files.
I could of course simply hit reset and remove the history but what about the raw conversion? I went back and found the original DNG and made a test copy. After importing it I could easily see that the raw conversion was improved over the other method implying that my first attempt had already been converted in LR2.
This would appear to have both good and bad considerations. I could for example load an entire years worth of images into LR3 ....my folder structure would keep them exactly as they are in LR2..in effect building the library..but carrying the history(development ) from Lr2 to Lr3. But I would lose out on the improved raw conversions possible with Lr3.

Larry,
lalittle wrote:
"The reason for this behaviour is that LR takes an existing XMP file into condideration when importing a RAW file. And in the XMP sidecar, all the development settings applied to the image (not the history) are stored."
Do I understand correctly that this is only an issue when importing existing edited photos in Lr3 rather than openning your Lr2.5 library with Lr3? In other words, would this NOT be an issue if simply openning an existing Lr2.5 catalog with Lr3 (or when upgrading at some point later)? If I take my Lr2.5 catalog and open it with Lr3, I'll still get EVERYTHING, including the history, correct?
Thanks,
Larry
This is correct. If you will open an LR 2.5 catalog with LR 3, you'll get all the history, which is stored in the catalog, rather than in the XMP data.
This also applies when you've never written metadata to disk.
Beat Gossweiler
Switzerland
Edit:
Of course I'm not Adobe, and by saying the above, I just assume normal upgrade procedures. So don't quote me if Adobe would - for whatever reason - not implement a full catalog migration
Message was edited by: b_gossweiler

What are default watermark settings (font etc) from LR2?

Would anybody know the default settings (font etc) that were used in LR2 for the copyright watermark? I recently upgraded from LR2.4 to LR3.3 and can't settle on an attractive copyright watermark at the moment. I was quite happy with the 'old' default watermark settings and would like to use it again in LR3...
Thanks in advance.

Slaps Head!!
I thought the simple watermark just printed Copyright 2011 but I thought I'd double-check before answering your reply. And it turned out I had set up my copyright info incorrectly on my import options.
So all I have to do is change my import options and I get what I want with the simple copyright watermark.
Thanks for setting me straight!

Upgraded LR1 - LR3 Catalog: blank Grid, non functioning app

I've been dealing with support on this, but they're utterly useless, taking days to get back to me and spinning me over troubleshooting 101 stuff.
Problem:
Upgraded a perfectly working LR1 catalog to LR3. No issues during upgrade.
Upon trying to use the LR3, the first thousand or so of my photos show up in Grid, but everything after that is blank. By that I mean, a grid cell is drawn, but LR3 doesn't display a thumbnail, or any cell extras or metadata.
Clicking on one of these empty cells gives me a thumbnail frame and some metadata (slowwwwly).
Going to Loupe View on a non-empty cell gives me a "Loading..." spinner and an unrendered thumbnail preview (CPU is not ramping up at all)
Going to Loupe View on an empty cell just gives me a blank screen (CPU is not ramping up at all)
Develop module does load the picture, but slowly.
When I quit, the app freezes up completely, with beachball. Must force-quit (after giving it 20 minutes in case it was actually trying to do something)
Initially, when I load LR3, my CPU runs high, 75%, like it's working on something. Then it just cuts out as if it's given up.
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6/17/10 7:27:38 PM Adobe Lightroom 3[518] ServerProcess [AsyncDataServer( Lightroom 3 Catalog.lrcat )] ERRORSERVER<AsyncDataServer( Lightroom 3 Catalog.lrcat )>: A command threw an exception.
6/17/10 7:27:38 PM Adobe Lightroom 3[518] ServerProcess [AsyncDataServer( Lightroom 3 Catalog.lrcat )] ERROR Error: ?:0: attempt to perform arithmetic on field '?' (a nil value)
6/17/10 7:27:38 PM Adobe Lightroom 3[518] Error initializing alternate universe. bad argument #1 to 'pairs' (table expected, got nil)
System:
MacBook Pro Core2Duo 2.1Ghz 3GB RAM, 500GB Drive.
Initially Mac OS 10.5.8, but I tried upgrading to 10.6.3 and 10.6.4 (no luck).
Library: 21,000 photos
Other things I've tried:
Trashing all LR3 prefs, caches (running YASU), LR preview caches, plists, extensions, reinstalling, restarting -- no luck
Noticed it was copying the LR1 prefs plist, so I archived that. LR3 generated a new pref, but no help
Downloaded LR2 Demo, upgraded LR1 Catalog to LR2 Catalog (which works perfectly, no issues), and then LR2 Cat -> LR3 -- no luck
Checking integrity of Catalog in LR1 and LR2 (no problems) and LR3 when upgrading (no problems)
LR3 runs fine on an empty catalog and if I point it at my photo folder and import everything, it's ok (with none of my 3 years of modifications of course).
Is my only option to write out LR1 data to sidecar files and then setup a new Catalog in LR3?

Well, on top of having full access to the photo files, LR obviously has proper permissions to affect the files it generates in the AppSupport>Adobe>Lightroom folder, the Caches>Lightroom folder, the Pictures>Lightroom folder and the Preferences> folder, otherwise it wouldn't be able to build a new catalog, new prefs, new caches and so forth when I generate a new empty catalog.
I really doubt this is a permissions voodoo issue or a monitor profile issue.
LR3 works fine with a brand new catalog (and all the same Photo files).
LR1 and LR2 have absolutely no problem with my catalog and photo files.
LR2 upgrades my LR1 Catalog without issue.
LR3 fails with my upgraded catalog (and all the same photo files)
Unless I'm missing something in my logic tree here, it seems to me this is obviously a problem with LR3 upgrading my Catalog.
Other people's catalogs upgrade fine, and that's dandy, but my catalog doesn't upgrade AND it fails with exactly the same error message every time in the Console (See original post), which seem to be related to some internal db issue, dividing by zero, nil values.
Something ain't being handled right by LR3 that previous versions of LR had no problem with.

TS1363 I was upgrading iPhone OS from 5.1 to 5.1.1 on Win 7 using iTunes 10.6.1.7. The iPhone hung. It is no longer visible by iTunes on Win 7

While upgrading iPhone OS from 5.1 to 5.1.1 on Win 7 using iTunes 10.6.1.7, the iPhone hung. I could not get iTunes to find it and Win 7 does not see it.
When I connect the iPhone to the USB, Win 7 issues the welcome sound, but that is it. The same happens when I disconnect iPhone.
The Devise Manager has the Apple Mobile Device USB Driver correct without any problem. I updated this driver called usbaapl64.
The iPhone is still hung.
I restarted the iPod service
I restarted the Apple Mobile Device Service
I tried to empty and delete the temp directory in C:\users\myname\AppData\Local\ but could not
The iTunes I am using is the latest version
I updated the Apple Mobile Device Driver as stated above correctly
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It also worked fine after the upgrade for a few days. At one stage Iphoto asked me to upgrade the iphoto version as it otherwise could not read the photos when I tried to load the BU library into iphoto. I did click yes to upgrade iphoto. As a result I became a brand new but totally empty library, no photos.
BU was still on the external disc, however the "Master" file was empty. We fortunately discovered all photos were in another file called Old Master, also under BU. We made another copy of the Old Master file onto the external disc. Lucky we did, because shortly afterwards we could not open anymore the BU file thus had no access to anything in there. Now I have 17000 photos in a file called Old Master on my external disc and another smaller library DE on my laptop. When I tried to import the photos from Old Master into a new iphoto library it was very messy. All events dates were mixed up, many photos were imported twice. I have no idea whether all my 17000 photos have been imported.
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Yes, the Old Master file has a folder for each year where I find all photos from that specific year. I am attaching a screen shot of the file.
In the meantime i have managed to download all photos (it did not download any video files though in mpg, avi, 3gp, m4v,mp4 and mov format) to a new iphoto library. Unfortunately the photos are quite mixed and often doubled up. I ma considering to purchase iphoto library which checks all duplicates in iphoto. this will save me a lot of time. What do you think?

Upgrade ONS15454 MSTP from 7.0 to 9.8

Hi all
I would like to some help that customer need to upgrade ONS15454 MSTP from version 7.0 to 9.8. So, I may need some help
1. how to upgrade it ?a
2. Is it possible to direct upgrade to 9.8?
3. I saw many file information in cisco web site, and which one i must to download it ? ( ONS 15454 R9.8.0 System Software for MultiService Transport Platform, ONS 15454 R9.8.0 System Software for Multiservice Transport Platform - Lite Version for TCC2P/TCC3 -WSON) I do not know which one is to using
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1. I try to using your upgrade tool, my ONS15454 is SDH version 7.0 so, I can choose only 9.3 for destination version. It means that i must to upgrade to 9.3 first and then go to 9.6 and 9.8, Correct?
yes it is true you go directly to 9.3.0, it is not a multi-shelf node.
please be sure that your software version is 7.0.0.
So upgrade path is 7.0.0 to 9.3.0
2. Is it possible to upgrade without downtime ? as my understand that ONS15454 have 2 site (east and west), Can i do upgrade east site before west site? and when finish upgrade east site and go to upgrade west site after that, can i ?
becase as i understand when finish upgrade per site all card in that site will reboot, so, i think that another site will take the traffic without downtime. I don't sure that i am correct or not if you have any mention please let's me know
no not possible without downtime,
there will be a traffic hit or 10seconds or less than that, it you are using MXP_MR_2.5G cards without Y-cable protection. same for GE_XP cards there will be a traffic loss for few seconds.
yes you can upgrade east node and after that upgrdae west node, but not like doing upgrade to 9.8 for one node and another still on 7.0
3. I don't have multishelf, i just have one shelf per site
4. I have plan to upgrade to customer soon, but i may need to give a plan for them. But right now, i may confuse about the way and solution to upgrade that include how and impact to upgrade.
1. There will be a traffic impact on MXP and GE_XP card for less than 10 seconds.
2. If MXP client ports are y-cable provisioned, than upgrade will be error less, in case of Y-cable protection just lock protection before proceeding to upgrade.
3. traffic will impact as MXP cards have to do FPGA upgrade also and for this they will take a reboot, but in case of y-cable other card is taking over.
4. As you have TCC2P card, so always select lite versions, if its SDH than SDH-DWDM.
5. also if possible, arrange spare TCC2P card, atleast one at each site, just to be on safe side.
6. here is the path which you have to follow:
7.0.0 to 9.3.0
9.3.0 to 9.6.0
9.6.0 to 9.8.0
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upgrade to newest iOS
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Thanks for using Apple Support Communities.
For troubleshooting on this, take a look at this article:
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http://support.apple.com/kb/ts3694
Error 13, 14, 35 and 50 (or -50)
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Perform USB isolation troubleshooting, including trying a different USB port directly on the computer. See the advanced steps below for USB troubleshooting.
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Eliminate third-party security software conflicts.
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Connect your computer directly to your Internet source, bypassing any routers, hubs, or switches. You may need to restart your computer and modem to get online.
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A message came up that said that I needed to repair the permissions on my iPhoto library I said ok.
When the library opened in Photos there was nothing there. It was as if the library was brand new with instructions on how to add images and events. I went to iPhoto to open the library. Same thing iPhoto now looks like new with information on how to import photos and create events!
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