by NewtonBoy » Thu Dec 15, 2016 7:54 pm
Over the past 7 years, I spend 5 to 6 hours a week using Adobe Light room, so roughly 2000 hours. I backup my Catalog Every time I close the application. I reinstall the application everytime I get a new computer. which works out to three times in 7 years.
I have spent probably a solid 100 hours over the past 3 months tagging files in Media Monkey. Before that I had a spree where I spent a good 200 hours fixing spellings and Genres. I think I remember one a few years ago where I did a general skim through all my files, that I probably had a good 40 hours in. Outside of that it's usually an hour here or there where I play with playlists. Call it 1000 hours of heavy usage, and more than that just hitting play.
I use the Backup script, and it's awesome, until you find the corruption and go to your backup, but that has the same problem. So you go back further. But it turns out that a 600MB database takes up a lot of space, and you trimmed some of the older backups, but all the ones you saved have the same problem because it was some weird thing that hadn't come up before. So, now what? You rebuild. Again. Hoping that all of the tags were saved successfully. Usually they are, but sometimes they aren't. So you have to go through your files again, and try to find the problems.
Or, something happens to the application files, and you have to reinstall. I've got 4 portable installations on my external drive right now. I don't bother backing up the application, because I don't have any major customizaton anymore, it takes too long to reproduce. I run a generic install, install the plugins I use, and make the couple of changes in settings, done in 15 minutes.
I have NEVER, EVER, had to restore my Light Room backup because my catalog got corrupted. I've had to do it because a drive failed, but that's why I do backups. Not because my files got corrupted from use.
Over the past 7 years, I spend 5 to 6 hours a week using Adobe Light room, so roughly 2000 hours. I backup my Catalog Every time I close the application. I reinstall the application everytime I get a new computer. which works out to three times in 7 years.
I have spent probably a solid 100 hours over the past 3 months tagging files in Media Monkey. Before that I had a spree where I spent a good 200 hours fixing spellings and Genres. I think I remember one a few years ago where I did a general skim through all my files, that I probably had a good 40 hours in. Outside of that it's usually an hour here or there where I play with playlists. Call it 1000 hours of heavy usage, and more than that just hitting play.
I use the Backup script, and it's awesome, until you find the corruption and go to your backup, but that has the same problem. So you go back further. But it turns out that a 600MB database takes up a lot of space, and you trimmed some of the older backups, but all the ones you saved have the same problem because it was some weird thing that hadn't come up before. So, now what? You rebuild. Again. Hoping that all of the tags were saved successfully. Usually they are, but sometimes they aren't. So you have to go through your files again, and try to find the problems.
Or, something happens to the application files, and you have to reinstall. I've got 4 portable installations on my external drive right now. I don't bother backing up the application, because I don't have any major customizaton anymore, it takes too long to reproduce. I run a generic install, install the plugins I use, and make the couple of changes in settings, done in 15 minutes.
I have NEVER, [b]EVER[/b], had to restore my Light Room backup because my catalog got corrupted. I've had to do it because a drive failed, but that's why I do backups. Not because my files got corrupted from use.