Sometimes you have to rely on someone else telling you how to get things done.
The two people whose explanations about rebuilding the catalog in Lightroom I was reading last night were exactly what I needed. I made the changes they suggested and then imported the first two sets of photos from 2026 and they appeared exactly where they should, in the Lightroom catalog.
After the first run through and after checking it was working. I closed the computer down and counted to ten and powered the Mac on again. A suggestion from Val from many years ago. Count to ten before you do anything else. That allows the capacitors in the computer time to discharge. Actually a half hour wait is better, but I didn’t have the time.
Immediately after I turned it on chaos reigned. Lightroom started by itself and began loading all the images on the computer. I paused it and turned it off again. Another ten second count and I turned it on again for a second time. This time everything was normal. I’d changed a lot of things the night before and all that chaos was it arranging things. Another bit of reading clarified that. It’s amazing the number of folk on the net who help you. The others are usually the ones who shout at you and who play music then shout at you again. They are no help at all.
So long story short, everything is working so far. I described it to Scamp as walking on egg shells.
I should be able to get images into the correct places now and start taking photos again.
That’s enough nonsense for today. Sorry Jamie, I should have prefaced this with the traditional <Technospeak> warning.
PoD is a frozen St Mo’s pond. Most of the white stuff is frost, but with just a scraping of fine snow on top.
Hopefully tomorrow we will return to normal, fingers crossed.