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JacksterD
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April 24, 2015

P: File handling much slower

  • April 24, 2015
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I'm having an issue with Lightroom CC being very slow at file handling. In Lightroom 5 I could move files from one folder to another on the same drive very quickly (almost instantly, never more than a few seconds), but in Lightroom CC I'm currently moving 400 CR2 files to a different folder and it's taken 10 minutes. This is on a Retina MacBook Pro with an SSD.

Also, the way Lightroom CC converts to DNG seems to be different. Normally when I import files I choose to convert to DNG in the Import dialogue. Normally in Lightroom 5 I ended up with a folder full of DNG files. However, in Lightroom CC I seem to get a folder of CR2 files which are then converted to DNG. I tried moving these files (from within Lightroom) while this process was going on and Lightroom got very confused and around 25% of my files could no longer be found by Lightroom (they were still on the disk, but with "DNG" extensions as opposed to the "CR2" which Lightroom seemed to be expecting, even though it had just converted them!).

Overall, this has slowed my import workflow down hugely. I used to Import as DNG, move my files around and boom, done. Now I need to import as CR2, then move the files into the right folder (which takes at least 100x longer now), and then convert to DNG. Not good!

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    sportshots
    sportshots
    Known Participant
    June 26, 2016
    I just started experiencing this yesterday after updating to 2015.6. I'm moving old files within LR and it is taking way too long. I went to bed last night and it took all night to move 250 photos from my main drive to an USB 3.0 ext. And it has taken over 3 hours to move 113 files from the main to an internal drive. Why.
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    Adobe Employee
    Venkatesh Penjuri
    Adobe Employee
    May 12, 2016
    Hi Tyron,

    Thank you for reporting. We will look into this. 

    - Venkatesh
    Venkatesh PenjuriAdobe Lightroom Team
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    FeedbackCommunityMember
    Inspiring
    May 8, 2016
    I had a problem with moving files within Lightroom CC very slow. Thanks to Denni's post on this thread, I got an idea to disable Face detection. Boom! 600 files moved on the same time it had moved 20 before.
    So there is something really wrong going on with face recognition while moving, but this is my workaround. Disable, move, re-enable it.
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    FeedbackCommunityMember
    Inspiring
    October 26, 2015
    This behavior has almost made Lightroom CC 1015 unusable on my iMac.

    The previous version of LR did not have this problem.

    My workflow has almost ground to a halt.
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    Mike123454321
    Known Participant
    October 4, 2015
    Adobe...please fix this. It is killing my efficiency.
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    xinaesth
    Participant
    July 7, 2015
    With Time Machine and similar, there will not only be the issue of redundant writes to the main storage mentioned by others, but also a very significant bloating of backup storage if it makes a habit of not getting 'round to doing the conversion before a backup kicks in.

    I'm trying to refrain from ranting too much here... hope the team manage to shape up a bit better; the software is barely functional for me in its current state (problems far beyond somewhat sluggish file handling). Most things I try to do (e.g., export one photo) seem to stand a significant risk of bringing up a progress bar that either doesn't move at all, or goes a certain way before stopping dead...
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    amdkt7
    Inspiring
    July 1, 2015
    I got some improvement when I uninstalled my old DataColor Spyder product. Installing the newest version did not make it bad again. This improved the transition time between images in both develop and library.

    I wish the cache was bigger, ie I can now rock back and forth between two images without delay, once both are loaded. However, if I view a third one of the others drops out. I have set my cache size to crazy figures without fixing this issues. Perhaps this data is cached somewhere else? Perhaps main memory? I have 16gig of ram...
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    FeedbackCommunityMember
    Inspiring
    July 1, 2015
    Does the Adobe company expect to survive with this poor engineering team it seems they have? This new Lightroom CC handling of the CR2 files, hard drive twice, DNG copy system must never have been beta tested or quality controlled. At my company someone on this engineering team would have been fired. We, your customers, deserve better.
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    amdkt7
    Inspiring
    June 23, 2015
    Last night when I fired up LR I got the opportunity to fill out a short survey, which I was excited to do. I said that there was no chance that I could recommend LR to a friend and then listed in the comments all of my complaints.

    I also requested the option to install only the modules that I need (dream on, but sometimes dreams come true).

    I am using Adobe Raw Converter to save time on the import, however building 1:1 previews still takes a really, really long time. At least I can go ahead and start working.
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    jgcrowder123
    Participant
    June 23, 2015
    I was really hoping that Adobe would address these concerns with the latest Lightroom update, but they didn't. Their claim for changing the way "Copy as DNG" works is that in some circumstances, the files were getting corrupt. I've imported and converted thousands of .CR2 files to .DNG and have NEVER had a corrupted file in previous versions of Lightroom.

    It wouldn't be too difficult for them to create an option in the Preferences dialog in the "Import Options" section to "Copy as DNG without Intermediary File" or something like that. That way the people who were having trouble with corrupted files could keep the current/slow import functionality and the rest of us could switch back the old/faster way.
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