regularly loosing all settings

ohlala · 2015-10-19 16:33:39

Dear all.
Last yearI designed a webpage by using CE3 pages. At that time I had already the issue that 1-2 times when I opened Lightoom (5.7 Mac OS 10.9.5) all the pages programming was lost. Anyway, I managed finally and was happy with my website. Now it appeared that I wanted to change the webpage and when I looked at lightroom, the pages programming was gone although all the collection folders haven't been touch. The gallery appearance was still there. OK since I anyway wanted to have a new website I purchased CE4 pages and CE4 galleries. Installed everything and started working on the new website. I closed lightroom yesterday several times and also restarted the computer. Everything fine so far. But, when I opened today lightroom - all the setting were set back to zero. All the programming was gone! Am I doing something completely wrong?
I generated in "Library" a new collection and placed 5 photos in there. I went to the web module, chose CE4 pages, selected the picture folder in "Collections" and pressed on the upper right part of the lightroom window generate web gallery and save. Then I started working with pages CE4. I am really confused.

thanks for your help

rod barbee · 2015-10-19 21:48:28

When you save a web gallery by clicking on the "Create Save Web Gallery" button in the upper right of the preview area, Lightroom saves your last settings. If you change settings, it will save those.
So if you're working in Pages and then go directly to Gallery from the Layout Style control pane, Lightroom will load Gallery with its default settings. And you lose whatever you were doing in Pages. If you go back to Pages, Lightroom will load with the default Pages settings.
Whatever you do last is saved.

You can create several collections and name them "Gallery", "Pages" etc and save your settings in those individual collections. But the best thing to do is to save your work as a Web Template in the Template Browser (left hand panel of the Web Module).

More on using the Template Browser here:
http://ce4.theturninggate.net/docs/doku … web_module
here: http://ce3wiki.theturninggate.net/doku. … te_browser
and here: http://ce4.theturninggate.net/docs/doku … _templates

ohlala · 2015-10-19 23:19:24

Crazy, I have no idea how often I went through the documentations, youtube videos etc. and never found this comment! Looks like that i belong to the group of people that are mentioned in your second link :"Too often ignorance of the Template Browser leads to a photographer losing hours of design work; for your sake and mine, do not be that photographer!"

Thanx a lot!

rod barbee · 2015-10-19 23:39:21

There are a lot of features in Lightroom that are often hard to discover

My favorite Lightroom reference is Victoria Bampton's Missing FAQ books. I've found all sorts of hidden Lightroom gems in her books
http://www.lightroomqueen.com/

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regularly loosing all settings

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