p.2 #1 · BUG - LR4 will erase your tone curve edits
kwalsh wrote:
And that's why you don't run a successful consumer software company...
The fallacy in your argument is that it is not the users' fault, if users are losing data moving from one Adobe product version to another it is clearly Adobe's fault. Their software should be doing a backup without any user intervention on the catalog upgrade. That is what any sensible software designer would do.
Sure, an experience user would do a backup. However, the burden is on the developer in this case as the solution is trivial on their end - backup before upgrade automatically. (And perhaps they are doing this already but haven't documented to the users how to properly recover).
I don't run a successful software company, but I certainly work for one. The steps adobe has taken here are more than enough; Lr3 was trying it's best to get you to back up your data, and when you upgrade, "The Lightroom 4 catalog upgrade process does not erase or remove your previous Lightroom catalogs. If you wish to try the Lightroom 4 30-day trial by upgrading your existing catalog, you may always return to earlier versions of Lightroom and continue using your previous catalog." People would need to try seriously hard to lose data through this process.
p.2 #2 · BUG - LR4 will erase your tone curve edits
farski wrote:
I don't run a successful software company, but I certainly work for one. The steps adobe has taken here are more than enough; Lr3 was trying it's best to get you to back up your data, and when you upgrade, "The Lightroom 4 catalog upgrade process does not erase or remove your previous Lightroom catalogs. If you wish to try the Lightroom 4 30-day trial by upgrading your existing catalog, you may always return to earlier versions of Lightroom and continue using your previous catalog." People would need to try seriously hard to lose data through this process.
Yep, I agree with you there. If that is how they have implemented it then it would seem someone would have to go out of their way to have data loss. I'm perplexed then why some people were saying they lost more than one day of work only one day after the software was released... Well, what lots of people do and write will always be perplexing I guess!
p.2 #4 · BUG - LR4 will erase your tone curve edits
thanks for the heads up, I wasn't ready to upgrade because of stuff like this, there is always a risk in upgrading if you have images you are still working on. on a recent update, I lost all of my library folders, luckily I do export all of my clients images to hard copy for future use as soon as I finish working on them.
p.2 #6 · BUG - LR4 will erase your tone curve edits
Yes, thanks for the warnings. Hopefully someone will update this thread when Adobe has a fix in place. I use tone curves on everything, but I can hold off updating until senior season starts up again in May.
