so far, the transition to macbook pro land has been pretty smooth. i really like the photography workflow i've established over there, and its a joy to use that operating system after years of thinking computers required work. i know, it all sounds cliche, but cliches are true.

anyway, i've run into a bug, and maybe someone will google this and confirm it or point out the flaw i am making. here is the scenario:

• lightroom open.
• lightroom database is local
• lightroom source files (raw format pictures) are on a network share

so in this scenario, if i edit a file in photoshop by right-clicking in lightroom and doing 'edit in photoshop', make my edits, and save the file, i get an error saying that the file is opened somewhere else. this persists unless i quit lightroom. so, lightroom is putting an exclusive lock on the network file, which is something it does not do to local files - i've tried, no such issue when the image files are local. of course, this is probably an operating system bug, because lightroom does not do this on the PC.

so, i think mac os x 10.5.2 puts program-level exclusive locks on open network files (which makes sense, on some level), something it does not do for local files, and something OTHER operating systems do at best on an operating system level, or at worst don't do at all.

i am getting decent at this software thang.