But it's a tip-off that if I want to remain literate in Access, I need to get busy and learn the new interface. This fact is sad, but I'm better off being aware of it.
I gave Lightroom a brief try some years ago, and didn't like the database at all. Perhaps it has improved.HansS wrote:I intended to do no more coding after retirement. But your SlabberJockey might inspire me to get a recent version of MS Access, to straighten out some shortcomings in the Lightroom database.
[Curmudgeon hat on.]
But as I suspect you may sympathize, I don't like relying on someone else's black box database to manage information that is important to me; to be able to access that information only as that black box permits; and perhaps to be captive to that black box product forever if it doesn't permit exporting my information. A database you build yourself is a database that does exactly what you want, that you can modify as your needs change, and from which you can withdraw your data at any time.
To me, this is a good reason for having a database program and knowing how to use it.
[/Curmudgeon hat off.]
Cheers,
--Chris S.