P: Adding Exported Photos to Catalog is Extremely Slow

Greetings all, 

A new update for the Adobe Photography products has been released.  The Max update v16.0 contains an update regarding this issue. 

If you do not see the update in your Creative Cloud Application, you can refresh it by pressing  [Ctrl/Cmd]+[Alt/Opt]+[ R ].

Note: It may take up to 24 hours for your update to be available in your Creative Cloud app.

Thank you for being so patient. 

Same here. 

It adds at a 1 second per exported image. 

If I have the “add to catalog” off, and do a manual import, 750 TIFFs took like 10 seconds. 

Brand new Mac M6, fresh LR install, same on may main catalog and on a new test catalogue. 

I had this problem on my previous Mac, and somehow I was expecting a different result on the new one.. 

Bug? 

The post was moved from Bugs to Questions because of the forum rules as this issue is not considered a bug YET although it appears to be a bad design.  That's the rules, like it or not.

As far as the slow “add to catalog” issue, this has been the situation for a long time.  I just tested this on 240 photos and the import was about 1 second per photo after the export completed.  If I simply import using the “copy” option the same import of the 240 photos completes in just a few seconds.  I have no idea if the “add to catalog” creates 1:1 previews etc.  I never export/add except for rare occasions and then it's only one or a few photos.  

I see this report has been moved from Bugs to Questions.  This is not a question.  I am unable to delete this report.  Would the person who moved it please delete it instead.