Weak Focus

I had decided I was going to make a brag book for the grandmas this mother’s day, so I went ahead and did a big import into Lightroom and let it rip. It really wasn’t all that huge; no more than a couple three thousand photos. Lightroom was decidedly unhappy with it though, and it tried to build thumbnails for several days. I gave up on it before it gave up on them. There might be some sort of corrupt image in there that’s causing it to croak, but the activity monitor didn’t give any useful info and while I might be able to piece it together from watching its open filehandles I’m not sure I want to put in that kind of effort. I’m not sure it’s less work, but I decided to start from scratch and moved the library out of the way and started to re-import everything in smaller chunks. This means I lost my previous changes to any of the photos, but that’s not really too much of a loss since I have hardcopy of most of them to replicate from if needed. I can say with certainty though that if I was farther along, or if I actually had pojects done for a client, I would be furious. This is hopefully the sort of thing that gets sorted during the beta, because it’d be unacceptable in a final product.