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Life has kicked my butt. That\u2019s what I\u2019m thinking and feeling at the moment. I\u2019m just home from work for the day. Kicked my shoes off. Took a shower. Ate some dinner, a cheese burger. I guess compared to a lot of people I\u2019ve got it pretty good. And I know it\u2019s true, but what\u2019s the real price of this lavish existence having a roof over my head and a board of food to slake my appetite?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I\u2019ve been struggling with my iMac the last couple days. More specifically I\u2019ve been struggling with Adobe Lightroom classic software. It\u2019s taken a good part of three days to get it back where it should be. At least I hope it\u2019s back where it should be. As I write this the software is still bogged down, but I think I know why, and I think it\u2019s temporary until it finishes syncing with the cloud. I\u2019m not really sure why I\u2019m syncing with the cloud. It seemed like a good idea at the time, but I really never use the portable Lightroom version for pad and phone OSs. Maybe I\u2019ll get around to doing that someday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A couple days ago I was looking at some more marching band pix from a different event. I took upwards of 500 for this one. I was making adjustments to an image and selected an option I\u2019d never seen before in classic Lightroom. This software is constantly being updated, upgraded, changed. You can\u2019t stand in the way of progress, especially when it\u2019s tech and there\u2019s profit at stake. Anyway I selected an option called super resolution in the sharpness panel, the same panel with noise reduction. I had previously applied NR, which I\u2019ve used a lot in the past. But then I saw the new super resolution option and thought super! So I clicked it to have a look. Lo and behold a box pops up saying it needs to configure ai something or another, and it was going to take an hour of processing. I honestly can\u2019t remember if I canceled it immediately or let it run. This was three days ago. Either way it basically locked up my Lightroom software. It started some sort of chain reaction that devoured all of my computers memory and kept asking for more. Basically a memory leak, as I understand it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This memory leak in my Lightroom classic was a massive pain in the ass. Every time I open Lightroom it just got hung up. It would sin its wheel and not really allow me to do anything. It took minutes to select anything. Then it seemed to not do anything when selecting an option, so I was unable to deselect super resolution. I tried several different things. Turning off and then tuning it on again time ten. I went to the adobe community for help and found a few articles that seemed relevant. It was painfully slow being able to try the suggested remedies due to the memory leak. I don\u2019t think they helped much if at all. Then I had an epiphany.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The epiphany seemed to me was one image with one bad selection was the harbinger of my sorrow. I realized maybe I can isolate that file and remove it. Basically I had to remove the .xmp file that was its sidecar. The .xmp is what holds all the information about changes to the master file. Which is good because I don\u2019t have to loose the master photo, just the edits. I\u2019m glad I decided to use .xmp when I learned about it. While this whole saga cost me several hours of watching my computer restart and have its wheels spin, I didn\u2019t lose any actual files. Once I removed the corrupted.xmp file and uninstalled and reinstalled Lightroom it seems to back in business. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
My iMac is a 2017, so it\u2019s nearly ten years old now. That\u2019s pretty ancient for this kind of tech at this time and place in the world. My computer\u2019s age likely played a part in causing this episode. Lightroom won\u2019t even let me fully upgrade to the latest and greatest due to my hardware being incapable of handling the heavier load that apparently comes with the luxury of ai tools. I don\u2019t like falling behind the tech curve like this, but I chose to be poor or at least made choices that limited any chance of not being poor. My iMac can keep up with the newer versions of software up to a point, but clearly with this episode it is struggling anyway. I hope I can keep it going another year or two before I can afford a new computer. It\u2019s not like not having it is going to loose me money, because I don\u2019t make any money with it, and that\u2019s what it\u2019s all about. Isn\u2019t it?<\/p>\n\n\n\n