Lightroom crash.

[Toshido]

Just had lightroom crash and lost close to 4 hours work due to it....

My question...

I thought lightroom saved new data to it's catalogue as it ran?

I mean I don't see an option for things like autosave every X minutes, like in my AutoCAD days...

So any way to prevent this from happening again?

[arodney]

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I mean I don't see an option for things like autosave every X minutes, like in my AutoCAD days...


It does auto save.

[Toshido]

Where are the autosaves?

I know from previous crashes the LR catalog seems to save changes in real time. Even had a majot crash that corrupted the catalog, yet loading it up a couple times and fixing a computer hardware issue got back all my information.

Last crash was a different beast though.

5 hours of work GONE!

Re-doing my work the following day I was exiting and reloading LR every 30-60 minutes and doing a catalog backup at that time as well. Just to be safe.

Wondering if there is a better way, that's all. Or maybe an explanation...

[arodney]

Where are the autosaves?

Up to a point before the crash, everything is saved in the database. There's no "autosaves" to locate. LR is saving as it operates.

Do you have the Automatically save XMP on in the Catalog Preferences?

[Toshido]

"Do you have the Automatically save XMP on in the Catalog Preferences?"


I believe I do now. I was poking around the other day, after the crash, and saw that option so I think I enabled it now. if I remember right it was not activated by default.

[cabbey]

if I remember right it was not activated by default.

It's not, you need to turn that on every time you create a new catalog. Dumbest default I've seen from Adobe in ages. Minor performance penalty when you make changes, but so worth it.