Filter Library DVD

I purchased the filter library DVD when I bought Filter Forge. I thought I could access the same filters on the DVD that are online but they would load faster. I don't know how to access the library on the DVD. Need help. Jim

Totte, many thanks for info. It helped. Once I've loaded the filter library as instructed, how do I access it when I'm using Filter Forge? I assume if I use the filter library loaded on my HD, it will be faster than using online library. Is that correct. Again, thanks, Havalah

havalah, the actual time to apply the filter won't decrease. The advantage is that you don't need to connect to our website and download every filter before starting to use it.

First, the "backup DVD" is just that.
The only reason to use it is if you want every filter available at the time your DVD was created installed in your system.
I have it for two reasosn only. First, if the FilterForge server gets nuked, my Drive get nuked and my Time machine drive get nuke. Second, to show the accountant that I have bought a physical "DVD", as sometimes Swedish Tax ministry has hard times to understand concept of download purchases of software, they are so 1980:ish in their thinking.

The instructions will work, but they will replace the whole FF settings directory, where you own and your downloaded files are.

What I wrote above still stands "I suggest you browse on the webserver, and have the DVD as backup incase you HD dies...". As the DVD is only as up to date as it was when it was manufactured, and the library is a living organism, powered by the many filter weavers, who make new and updated filters.

// Totte - Mac user since 1984 / mac developer since 1987

Just as a head's up, I did the install procedure for the library backup as described in the readme. While FF2 appears to hang, if you let it sit for a few minutes, it _will_ eventually come up.

I just think that having to update itself to deal with thousands of new filters forces so much processing that it takes FF2 some time to build its data structures. The first time after following the readme instructions, I thought it had hung and killed it, but the second time I went and got some coffee and left it running (after looking at what it was doing via ActivityMonitor sampling, and realizing it was just processing a LOT of info) and it came up after about 3 minutes. Once it's processed all the library plugins in the library backup, the UI appears and it functions normally (if a bit sluggishly in the library browser).

Subsequent launches come up within seconds as you'd normally expect. I'm still having problems getting it to work with CS5, so can't comment to what happens in that configuration yet.