Dear all,

My 1.7 GB 'master catalog' constantly 'freezes' after working on it some time. Closing, rebooting and opening again does not unlock it. When I create a new catalog all is fine, until the catalog grows and, finally, locks up again. No adjustments can be made any longer.

Am I stressing EM's catalog size too far? I can create a new catalog, import my files and all is OK until this catalog freezes up too.

Any thoughts toward a solution are much appreciated.

With best regards,
Lars Soerink

Thank you Jim for pointing me to Daniel Robillards scripts. Very helpful indeed, now time to dust off my French

Lars

Thanks John,

So if I understand correctly, your script will help 'recover' the data into the fields that I choose to use, but there is no way to easily keep using the fields that I have used so far. That's food for thought, since my stock agency requires those fields.

What would you - or anyone else - suggest is the best workaround here?

Lars

Dear all,

In the past I have written a lot of information into specific IPTC fields, including:


IPTC     IPTC                My use
#         name

05        Object name    Short caption
07        Custom field     English name
08        Custom field     Scientific name
...         etc.                etc.

Can I get EM2 to 'connect with' those fields using custom fields functionality? I cant find out whether it is possible to map EM custom fields to specific IPTC fields. I need to write information to those fields, and read from them the data that has been fed into them over the last 5 years.

All help much appreciated!

With regards,
Lars

Thank you Robert for your reply. I have zero experience with scripts but this seems a good moment to start learning.

Best regards,
Lars

Dear experts,

In the proces of migrating from FotoStation to XM, the need arises to read the IPTC object name from a large amount of RAW files and put this information in the 'Description' field in XM. Is there a script that does this? What would otherwise be a smart way of doing this?


Suggestions appreciated!

With best regards,
Lars

As this is my first contribution to this - excellent! - forum please allow me to introduce myself briefly: I work as a photographer and we are running a small business with most of the time 3 people working on projects. We are running - when they function, that is - 4 PC's and my Macbook over a small office network. The main PC has several harddisks connected to it and serves as the spine of our office.

This far we have always worked with FotoStation software, as this is also used by two of the stock agencies that I work with. Working with FotoStation has become more awkward since I use digital capture. It works directly with large collections of images and is great for (batch) captioning and IPTC in general. I can not get used to using iView for that. I am a strong advocate of Lightroom but LR has made me realise that FotoStation 5 has major flaws when working with Raw files:

- it is fully IPTC but not XMP aware.
- any changes in the image are not reflected in the thumbnails
- I can't preview colour accurate NEF images, nor e-mail JPG's from NEF to clients without the JPG's having odd colours

I have been waiting for FotoStation to come up with up-to-date software, that supports XMP, the 5-star rating used in Adobe software and other features.

Recently FotoStation 6 hit the market and I am currently reviewing the trail version. It's not bad at all, but it has very little improvements over version 5 and has not embraced features that I started to like in Lightroom, such as the 5-star rating.

Does anyone have any suggestions on how to move on now:

- Bite the bullet and learn whole new software such as iView (cheaper than FotoStation: cool!)
- Work around the shortcomings and continue with FotoStation 6
- Other options that I am not aware of?

Best regards,

Lars Soerink