Adobe Lightroom
Help!
I have installed Lightroom 2.7 on a new pc, using the same reg key as the old machine. I managed to switch the catalogue to the original one on a stand alone hard drive, which was fiddlier than I remember, but the secoind time I launched the programme it would not open it. I keep getting an error message telling me that either something else is using the file, or the catalogue could not be found. To be honest, I can't remember or figure out what the master catalogue file is, and I have found several LRCAT files with date stamps on them. None of them work. However, it will open from the default catalogue it made on the C drive when I installed it. I though windows 7 would have made this kind of major irritation a thing of the past......
...including Start/Run. 
This is why I specified Windows XP Pro as the operating system for my last two machines despite W7 being the default OS*.
They got delivered with XP Pro loaded and W7 on a CD if I change my mind.
I skipped the whole Vista debacle thankfully, but there are still too many people (including friends and colleagues) who find W7 very flakey. I am not into regular system 'rebuilds'. Never had to do one yet and don't intend to start now.
I'll change to W7 when all support for XP Pro has ceased.
(I do all my photography stuff on the iMac. The screen gamma is just right.)
*Ok one has to have XP Pro for work so that is not really an option.
chebby:This is why I specified Windows XP Pro as the operating system for my last two machines despite W7 being the default OS*.
They got delivered with XP Pro loaded and W7 on a CD if I change my mind.
I skipped the whole Vista debacle thankfully, but there are still too many people (including friends and colleagues) who find W7 very flakey. I am not into regular system 'rebuilds'. Never had to do one yet and don't intend to start now.
I'll change to W7 when all support for XP Pro has ceased.
(I do all my photography stuff on the iMac. The screen gamma is just right.)
*Ok one has to have XP Pro for work so that is not really an option.
The reason I bought the Sony was because of the review of the HD screen. I've yet to get ti calibrated, but the resolution is fantastic for editing. Only now do I realise how good the 50D was (I downgraded to a 40D because of 'noise') some of the shots I took with it are razor sharp, even at 100% crop. It's so much easier to check and discard blurred shots. Even out of the box, the colour gamut is so obvioulsy greater than the machnie I was using, and already some of the pictures I have processed make me cringe!
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Problem solved. right click on the file, click on secuirty tab, and grant access / read / write permission to my new PC user profile and job done. XP -> W7 is like Tescos: you know it's all there, but someone moved everything around during the night...
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