Moving from Lightroom (Page 2): I do think the iMac is past its sell by date! As iPad pros are at least as powerful as most laptops and faster than many I don’t think the hardware is...

Martino Loc: Northwest Florida

I do think the iMac is past its sell by date!

As iPad pros are at least as powerful as most laptops and faster than many I don’t think the hardware is an issue. If adobe can produce a fully featured photoshop to run on an iPad Pro and Affinity Photo runs excellently I don’t see a problem there.

Neverlost99 Loc: Sarasota

I wonder if current , modern iPads can be updated to the upcoming iPadOS!?

minniev Loc: MIssissippi

Martino wrote:

Thanks. Yes, interesting times.

I am on Victoria Bamford’s forum and will go back and look at the Apple Community too.

Thanks again.

One thing I was curious about in your description of your old machine was the 24 g ram. How on earth did you get 24 in that machine which I am pretty sure maxed out at 16?

And to add to the discussion of specs: I did transform another elderly mac (a MacBook Pro 2011) from a crash-a-moment discard into a very slick operator by pulling the DVD drive out and replacing it with an SSD. Just a thought, if you have a DVD drive in that iMac.

minniev Loc: MIssissippi

Neverlost99 wrote:

I wonder if current , modern iPads can be updated to the upcoming iPadOS!?

https://www.igeeksblog.com/ios-13-compatible-devices/

Martino Loc: Northwest Florida

minniev wrote:

One thing I was curious about in your description of your old machine was the 24 g ram. How on earth did you get 24 in that machine which I am pretty sure maxed out at 16?

And to add to the discussion of specs: I did transform another elderly mac (a MacBook Pro 2011) from a crash-a-moment discard into a very slick operator by pulling the DVD drive out and replacing it with an SSD. Just a thought, if you have a DVD drive in that iMac.

I added more ram over the period of time. I think I could go higher with this Mac, but decided that 24 GB was enough. The device does have a DVD drive, but I think the time has come to for it to retire. It won’t load Mojave and certainly wont cope with Catalina, so I either replace it or do away with it completely.

For a number of reasons (not Lightroom work as I’m happy with that on the iPad Pro), I’d still like to have a Mac OS machine around. I’m thinking a Mac Mini with a big monitor (that would also work with the IPad Pro) so will investigate that.

JD750 Loc: SoCal

BobHartung wrote:

The newer versions of CC do not work well/at all with the latest iteration of OS X.

Really?

I am running the latest version of CC including PS 2019, with the latest version of macOS (Mojave) and I have not had any problems.

Harry0 Loc: Gardena, Cal

Among many other things I work IT, and PCs.
> Either that, or baseline your old computer and start with a fresh install of the latest operating system. If your computer is old, I guarantee that is your problem. < Exactamundo.
Another of many other things is: how many upgrades have you done on this machine?
I have seen many that have upgraded from Win7 thru everything and then Win10
You add another 5 years of installed and almost deleted, or just not use anymore, applications that have "adjusted" a M$ file or 2 for it's liking.

So: MY suggestion is to get anther hard drive- SSDs prices are going down like TS hookers at a RNC party
Fresh install onto this drive, from format forward. Then install only the programs you've actually used in the last 6 months. Update all drivers. Your old hard drive is a full solid bootable backup. No worries.
You'll be amazed at how much better your old machine is.

Harry0 Loc: Gardena, Cal

Martino wrote:

I added more ram over the period of time. I think I could go higher with this Mac, but decided that 24 GB was enough. The device does have a DVD drive, but I think the time has come to for it to retire. It won’t load Mojave and certainly wont cope with Catalina, so I either replace it or do away with it completely. .

The DVD has standard connects, so another hard drive will work there.
Maybe an unused one just hanging around- make a good scratch disk.

Neverlost99 Loc: Sarasota

Harry0 wrote:

Among many other things I work IT, and PCs. br >... (show quote)

TS Hookers at an RNC party sounds like it would corrupt my hard drive.

Ruthiel Loc: Las Vegas

A word of caution moving your Lightroom file to Apple photos. Every time I’ve tried it the photos move with NO EDITS! Do not delete them from photos if that happens. Photo will delete them from photo, Lightroom, and an external hard drive. It happened to me but I recovered them thru time machine. Apple photo is the devil and should never see the light of day.

JD750 Loc: SoCal

Neverlost99 wrote:

TS Hookers at an RNC party sounds like it would corrupt my hard drive.

😂

JD750 Loc: SoCal

Ruthiel wrote:

A word of caution moving your Lightroom file to Apple photos. Every time I’ve tried it the photos move with NO EDITS! Do not delete them from photos if that happens. Photo will delete them from photo, Lightroom, and an external hard drive. It happened to me but I recovered them thru time machine. Apple photo is the devil and should never see the light of day.

Ruthie, you will not see the effects of retouching in Lightroom when using other programs to open the original images. That is because Lightroom does not touch the original image.

To have the retouching appear in other programs, like Photos and Preview, you have to first export the edited version from Lightroom, be sure to give it a different name, then import the exported version to Photos.

And you should never move the original images using anything but lightroom. If you do that Lightroom will lose track of them because Lightroom has no way to know that you moved the images using another program.

DirtFarmer Loc: Escaped from the NYC area, back to MA

JD750 wrote:

Ruthie, you will not see the effects of retouching in Lightroom when using other programs to open the original images. That is because Lightroom does not touch the original image...

If you use a dng file and export it from LR it will allow you to overwrite the original, and the new file will be changed from the old file. Dng stores the edits and updates the preview to reflect them.

This means that if you edit and export as dng you have to back up the new "original" file again. And since the preview is updated, other programs will see the changes.