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Thanks, Rod (and Matt - certainly appreciate the offer!). Alas, I'm disinclined to dive into upgrading to CE4 as a means of getting to Backlight. Just don't want to deal with the CE mess anymore.
Clearly there is a way for someone in my situation (or someone running CE2) to install Backlight. Even if it involved the extreme case of formatting one's hard drive, fresh-installing the OS, fresh-installing Lightroom, then fresh-installing Backlight.
More likely, of course, is it's something far less dramatic:
- Backup your system
- Install Backlight
- Move <this> file
- Delete <that> file
etc., etc.
I'm just trying to understand what that process is...
Thanks,
Jeff
Thanks, guys. This is helpful (and encouraging - as I truly would like to have a CE-like product, but one much easier to use; it sounds like Backlight could be that).
Just to reiterate... I'm perfectly fine with not having any kind of migration tool, of having to do a fresh install. In many cases that's the best approach anyway.
I'm also perfectly comfortable with using ftp, moving server-based files, changing their permissions, and the like.
But it's clear that just doing a fresh install of Backlight and recreating my galleries will likely create _some_ conflict with my present CE3 config. Even if it's nothing more than the 'index' file under my domain. unless, perhaps, that file is overwritten by Backlight?
It sounds like having two instances of Publisher (one from CE, one from Backlight) within Lightroom is okay. You just wouldn't use the old one from CE anymore. For those of us semi-anal types who hate to see such deprecated, unused software elements hanging around, is there a way to remove the older instance of Publisher?
Surely Backlight - both its installation and it subsequent operation - have been extensively tested on systems that already have CE4, CE3, and CE2 running (that's its first, natural constituency, after all). Sounds like migrating from CE4 is nailed down. CE3 and CE2, not so much. As a CE3 user, that's the part that still remains somewhat opaque to me.
Thanks again...
Jeff
Congratulations on the release of Backlight! It looks like an intriguing follow-on to the CE series...
I'm currently running CE3 (Pages, Gallery, Publisher, and Auto Index), with the latest standalone version of Lightroom (6.1.1), on a Mac running Yosemite (OS X 10.10.5). I'll probably update OS X to El Capitan within the week.
I LOVE being able to update my website directly from Lightroom. CE3 has certainly met its mission in that regard.
What hasn't been so great is making changes to the website itself (adding galleries, changing text, etc.). The installation process of CE3 is/was so arcane - and that's being kind - that one blanches at the thought of having to re-learn, many months later, the convoluted steps necessary. And so design updates don't happen and, other than individual images within the galleries, the site kind of stagnates.
With that as the backdrop, I'll pose two questions...
1) Is the installation - and subsequent update - process more streamlined than than in CE3? Backlight documentation still seems a bit sparse, but it appears it might be improved in that respect. I'd appreciate any perspective.
2) What are the implications of moving from CE3 to Backlight? I see there is a migration tool for those on CE4, but no mention of how those on CE3 or CE2 would proceed. I'm not particularly put off by not having a direct migration tool and thus having to manually rebuild the site, but it does lead to obvious questions regarding the current CE3 / Lightroom config. Does installing Backlight create any kind of conflict with the CE3 plugins? Is it necessary to first remove those CE3 plugins and, if so, how? If it's not necessary to remove them, what are the implications of having two instances of Publisher (the one installed with CE3 and the one installed with Backlight) running?
Some commentary on upgrading from CE3 or CE2 would be helpful...
Thanks in advance!
Jeff
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