Lightroom User Question about Catalogue size
Jan 25, 2017 15:32:58 #
Hello UHH friends. I use LR almost exclusively and am currently running LR 7, but not the CC. I have my LR set to back up my catalogue once a day when/if LR is opened. A few weeks ago I started getting this message when I click to back up my catalogue: Catalogue size is more than 4 GB. Please use a third party utility such as 7-zip or StuffitExpander to extract your catalogue backup. I just use one catalogue and I don't have thousands and thousands of photos registered to LR. It appears to backup when I click Continue, but I'm just wondering if anyone else has encountered this message and what I should be doing about it. Thanks for your expertise.
Jan 25, 2017 15:45:54 #
LindaChaplin wrote:
Hello UHH friends. I use LR almost exclusively and... (show quote)
Sounds like you are running on a Mac. It 's a warning, not a hard stop. Click on the checkbox that says "Don't Show This Again" and then continue. Mac OS wills till compress the file, but you'll need a third party application to extract it should you need to in the future.
Jan 25, 2017 15:48:54 #
Yes, I am running on a MAC. So it isn't a problem unless I need to extract the catalogue and it is ok to continue as I am? Thanks.
Jan 25, 2017 16:28:46 #
LindaChaplin wrote:
Hello UHH friends. I use LR almost exclusively and... (show quote)
Gene51 gave an excellent response. I just want to add that I seem to recall reading about this issue on a forum a few weeks ago. I didn't have a lot of interest in it at the time, for I wasn't having the issue, but I seem to recall that Adobe is aware of this and has a remedy. You might want to check with them.
Jan 25, 2017 17:23:35 #
Jan 25, 2017 18:39:33 #
LindaChaplin wrote:
Thank you...good suggestion. L.
I get the same message all the time, just go ahead and back up as usual. But just in case you ever need it-
Here is the Adobe answer to your question.
https://helpx.adobe.com/lightroom/kb/extract-large-catalog-backup-macOS.html
Here is info about a free program you can download and use to expand the compressed catalogue. You can get it from the App store.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/stuffit-expander/id405580712?mt=12
Jan 26, 2017 18:20:52 #
Thank you very much everyone...I've been stewing about this for awhile...finally realized there would be someone(s) on UHH who knew the answer.
Jan 27, 2017 20:18:49 #
LindaChaplin wrote:
Hello UHH friends. I use LR almost exclusively and... (show quote)
This is a program error. See this Catalog Error
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