I’ve just installed DxO PL6 and during startup I get the message: “Photo Library Update in progress - This may take some time.” The program just seems to hang…
I’m using a MacBook Pro, 14" 2021, Apple M1 Max, 32Gb, Monterey 12.6.
Any ideas?
I don’t know about PL but my dam, Photo Supreme , regually updates the databaser with changes to the program. A majer update had some users having it take houres to do the updating.
The update finally failed, a couple of times!! It finally gave up and opened a new database for PL6 with none of the previous database info migrated from V5, very disappointing. The original database is still good as I can open it in PL5 and all of the info is still there. Does anyone know how to migrate a working PL5 database to PL6?
Not good news pleased I kept away from PL as. DAM
Hi John, PL6 does not pretend to be a DAM, it merely interrogates the file structure on your harddrive. The database to which I refer is the database that stores all of the Advanced history of edits, metadata, keywords and star ratings, etc. Useful if one wants to re-visit a photo and not start from scratch.
Fix the situation like this:
- open DPL5
- backup the database, wait for DPL to restart
- quit DPL5
- open DPL6
- restore the database from the DPL5 backup
Hi Platypus and thank you for your reply. If only it was that simple. When I attempt to backup the database it all seems to go fine apart from at the end when I receive a message with an exclamation mark and PL with the message: “Attempt to access an object not found in store.”
Which is above my pay grade. Hopefully, DxO help-desk will get back to me one day with a solution, unless you know a way to rebuild and validate the database. The database does seem to work fine within PL5, I just cannot back it up. I have made a copy of the database directory within the Library folder, just in case I corrupt the database beyond repair whilst experimenting.