I'm so pleased with my new Apple 16" M1 MacBook Pro w/ 8TB of SSM! (some samples of recovered photos)
Jan 8, 2022 02:51:28 #
A few weeks ago I posted how I had ordered this computer, in part to celebrate winning a 15 year battle with cancer.
I then decided to move all my LrC images from my old computer into my new computer and reconstruct the LrC data base from scratch! Cooler heads here on LR advised me not to do that. I was convinced that my original LR data base had become corrupted of the years and wanted a fresh start. I have made a lot of progress over the past few weeks but it's a very error prone process! I'm sure that years from now I'll still be correcting, and refining search terms.
The good news is that having EVERYTHING in the SSM makes things happen so fast that the task is possible. I found a few pictures that I had forgotten about. I discovered that I have a ridiculous about of image duplication! That's something I can take care of in the future.
Now for some images:
I then decided to move all my LrC images from my old computer into my new computer and reconstruct the LrC data base from scratch! Cooler heads here on LR advised me not to do that. I was convinced that my original LR data base had become corrupted of the years and wanted a fresh start. I have made a lot of progress over the past few weeks but it's a very error prone process! I'm sure that years from now I'll still be correcting, and refining search terms.
The good news is that having EVERYTHING in the SSM makes things happen so fast that the task is possible. I found a few pictures that I had forgotten about. I discovered that I have a ridiculous about of image duplication! That's something I can take care of in the future.
Now for some images:
Please help me identify this tiny flower/seed pod. I forget what it's name is?!
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A favorite I rediscovered.
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Sometimes I forget names. What are the names of that tiny bee and flower?
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Just a snake in a tree in the rain in my back yard. I thought I lost this image, but found by flipping past many images
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Jan 8, 2022 05:35:07 #
Very nice photos, Dave. And I'm glad you're pleased with your new MacBook Pro. I'm a Mac guy going all the way back to the original 1984 one-piece and while I'm more inclined these days toward the smaller form factor laptops, I just checked the specs on the latest (I have a 2020 M1 MBP) and they are just jaw-dropping! To think of eight TERABYTES of storage on a laptop! Did you also bump up the RAM? (I think you must have).
Jan 8, 2022 05:57:47 #
Davethehiker wrote:
A few weeks ago I posted how I had ordered this co... (show quote)
The picture with the red seeds is Hearts a Bursting (Euonymus americanus) and the blue flower looks like Chicory (Cichorium intybus). The insect is a small hover fly of some sort.
Jan 8, 2022 06:57:33 #
Chadp
Loc: Virginia Beach
I am right there with you on the new M1. But one thing that I have noticed is that an external drive that is not SSD can really slow it down. I had my Apple photos directory on an external HD with my old Mac. But with the new M1 with SSD it really got bogged down anytime I opened Apple Photos with the Photos directory on the external spinner. I know part of it is just the fact that the external is a spinner. But the slow down was extreme and Photos crashed several times. Plus, the quietness of the M1 machine really made the spinning of the external drive annoyingly loud.
I have since moved Apple photos to the new Mac’s SSD and now all is good and crazy fast. But I think going forward, the externals being SSD will make a bigger difference in speed than what they make on an Apple Intel machine.
I have since moved Apple photos to the new Mac’s SSD and now all is good and crazy fast. But I think going forward, the externals being SSD will make a bigger difference in speed than what they make on an Apple Intel machine.
Jan 8, 2022 07:02:15 #
Jan 8, 2022 07:08:37 #
tcthome
Loc: NJ
Beautiful photos. Haven't a clue what the flowers are & I forget what the heck I was talking about. 
Jan 8, 2022 07:49:23 #
Just Fred wrote:
Very nice photos, Dave. And I'm glad you're pleased with your new MacBook Pro. I'm a Mac guy going all the way back to the original 1984 one-piece and while I'm more inclined these days toward the smaller form factor laptops, I just checked the specs on the latest (I have a 2020 M1 MBP) and they are just jaw-dropping! To think of eight TERABYTES of storage on a laptop! Did you also bump up the RAM? (I think you must have).
Yes, the ram is also maxed out.
Jan 8, 2022 08:24:58 #
hcmcdole wrote:
The picture with the red seeds is Hearts a Bursting (Euonymus americanus) and the blue flower looks like Chicory (Cichorium intybus). The insect is a small hover fly of some sort.
Thank you so much. Now the terms you have provided have been added as Keyword Tags in my LrC data base.
BTW, the "Hearts a Bursting" photo was taken in Prince William Forrest Park, a short drive from Washington DC. Years ago I liked to hike there. A little known fact told to me by one of the park rangers:
When President Nixon was in office, he would sometime decide he wanted to take a walk in the woods. His staff would make a call to the park head quarters and the park would be cleared out. Armed secret service agents would be walking the the same trails, ahead of and behind the President. Nixon was a nature lover.
Jan 8, 2022 08:32:20 #
mvetrano2 wrote:
These are beautiful!
Thank you. They are some of my personal favorites.
Jan 8, 2022 09:14:01 #
Jan 8, 2022 09:30:14 #
Chadp wrote:
I am right there with you on the new M1. But one t... (show quote)
In my opinion ANY external drive slows performance way down. Maybe it has something to do with LR? I have a 2TB SanDisk SSD that I have used to transfer data from my old computer to the new one. Once the data/image is in the new computer and indexed, LR is FAST. The import can be painfully slow.
Jan 8, 2022 09:59:34 #
Over the years I have taken a lot of pictures deer, and many more photos of Hummingbirds! I thought I was transferring in huge clusters and assigning the correct Keyword at the time. Mistakes where made and a lot of my hummingbirds have horns! Some images were transferred with no keyword assigned.
Like images tend to be clustered together in the same date/locations on the SSD. One would think that LR would allow to click on the first image then do a "Shift click" to do group selection of similar photos, (it does) then allow one to to assign a keyword to the selected group. This does NOT work the way I expect it to! Sometimes it works but more often the keyword ends up only attached to the first image. There is something wrong with my understanding here!
I hope I explained it well enough to understand.
Like images tend to be clustered together in the same date/locations on the SSD. One would think that LR would allow to click on the first image then do a "Shift click" to do group selection of similar photos, (it does) then allow one to to assign a keyword to the selected group. This does NOT work the way I expect it to! Sometimes it works but more often the keyword ends up only attached to the first image. There is something wrong with my understanding here!
I hope I explained it well enough to understand.
Jan 8, 2022 12:16:12 #
Wonderful photos and it is a great reason to indulge in your new laptop, Dave!
Jan 9, 2022 08:02:20 #
Nice Dave...very nice! Your photos are gorgeous!! You and a few others have me thinking about replacing my 10 year old MacBook Pro for a new one with the M1.
Jan 9, 2022 08:18:47 #
Ava'sPapa wrote:
Nice Dave...very nice! Your photos are gorgeous!! You and a few others have me thinking about replacing my 10 year old MacBook Pro for a new one with the M1.
I'm glad that I splurged on the the SSM. It's fast when everything is internal.
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