I'm having a problem with LightRoom

[bondarnes]

I recently purchased LightRoom and am trying to learn it. Yesterday and today I developed about 700 images from a wedding and ended up with a little under 300 processed images. When I go to save them everything seems to be working and it shows me the progress % and after about thirty minutes I get an error message the none of the images were saved into the destination folder. Any tips on what I might be doing wrong?

[GypsyHighSide]

Don what version are you using? Where is your destination folder? At the very top of the export screen is a big box that looks like a header. It says "Files on Disk" or "Files on CD/DVD". You want "Files on Disk".

[bondarnes]

I guess it is LightRoom 1. LR 2 came out a few days after I bought it. I am trying to save to a folder on my desktop. It is a processed folder along with a RAW folder inside the main folder.

[GypsyHighSide]

I have LR 2.5 on my desktop. I went and fired up the laptop which has LR 1.4 on it. The one time that I recieved the error message you are getting was when I had LR set to burn the images to a cd. In v 1.4 that is at the bottom of the export screen under the "Post Processing" section. It says"After Export:" to the right of that is a drop down menu. It should be selected to "Do Nothing". If it is set to "Burn the exported images to disc" and you don't have a disc in the drive you will get a message. I hope this helps, because besides that one time I have never had an issue with LR.

[bondarnes]

I think I had all of that set correctly. I closed LR and restarted it then did the export again and it worked fine. I guess it just didn't like being open for 24+ hours.

[AndrewCCM]

IMHO: LR 1 has memory leaks....So does 2 for that matter.. Neither like being up for extended amounts of time.

[GypsyHighSide]

Originally Posted by AndrewCCM

IMHO: LR 1 has memory leaks....So does 2 for that matter.. Neither like being up for extended amounts of time.

+1 I usually just load photos, do edits the close it down and restart to backup cataloge.

[bondarnes]

Thanks for the info. I was afraid to close it before I finished editing (ACR thinking) and I'm new to it so I'm kinda slow. I should have started with a smaller project. But it all worked out in the end . I appreciate all the help guys.

[Roy]

All this time I thought it was just my computer. And a lot of it probably is.

[JohnT]

Originally Posted by Roy

All this time I thought it was just my computer. And a lot of it probably is.

Same here. I need a new system so badly, it isn't even funny.