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.
Gene51
Loc: Yonkers, NY, now in LSD (LowerSlowerDelaware)
LindaChaplin wrote:
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.
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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.
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.
LindaChaplin wrote:
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.
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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.
Thank you...good suggestion. L.
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.
LindaChaplin wrote:
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.
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This is a program error. See this
Catalog Error
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