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JacksterD
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April 24, 2015

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  • 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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    EvilBoris
    EvilBoris
    Participating Frequently
    May 8, 2015
    I solved it by pausing facial recognition indexing
    Victoria Bampton LR Queen
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    Victoria Bampton LR QueenCommunity Expert
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    May 8, 2015
    That would suggest they're busy scrambling to figure out what's going on.
    Victoria - The Lightroom Queen
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    denniR
    Participating Frequently
    May 8, 2015
    I've been looking through the various LR CC/6 'performance issue' threads on the Adobe forums and there seems to be a heck of a lot of people experiencing the same problems. We're dealing with both Macs and PCs, slow to top of the line CPUs, 4-32 gig RAM allocations, varying and apparently supported GPUs, SSD and traditional HDs, GPU acceleration both turned on and off...

    Here's my question: WHERE THE HECK IS ADOBE IN COMMENTING ON THIS? We vent in these forums and are relieved to see these problems are not happening in isolation, and yet we have no evidence that Adobe is even paying attention to us.

    I've put the problem directly to them and have not heard anything back.
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    denniR
    Participating Frequently
    May 8, 2015
    Exactly. If we wanted to do it this way, we would have simply imported the CR2s then converted to DNG once in the catalogue.
    EvilBoris
    EvilBoris
    Participating Frequently
    May 6, 2015
    I've noticed the same problem with the most recent batches of images I've been trying to convert to DNG

    For me the solution was to pause the face detection indexing, which seems to be indexing every photo i've ever taken.

    15 seconds after I paused it , Lightroom was converting one CR2 file every second or so.
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    FeedbackCommunityMember
    Inspiring
    May 6, 2015
    https://forums.adobe.com/thread/1828580
    This clarifies where any potential speed-up should happen. There are bits of useful information further down the page as well.
    Info. here as well. http://www.diyphotography.net/adobes-...
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    jgcrowder123
    Participant
    May 5, 2015
    I was thinking about using the DNG Conversion Utility as a workaround, but I hadn't gotten around to it. I should be able to point the Conversion utility at the raw files on my SD card and have the output of the conversion be my destination folder on the hard drive. Seems like it would be faster.

    With regards to the GPU issue. I had the same problem with my AMD Radeon HD6850 you until I read in the forums that the solution was to downgrade my AMD Graphics driver to a prior version, version 14.4. This caused Lightroom to be able to use my GPU. You might want to check out this discussion: https://forums.adobe.com/thread/1822782 for more info.
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    FeedbackCommunityMember
    Inspiring
    May 5, 2015
    Since the upgrade to Lightroom CC, the convert to DNG has become ridiculously slow. I've resorted to using the Adobe DNG Conversion utility to convert my NEFs to DNGs & then I inport these into Lightroom. A work-around but hardly satisfactory. I hope Adobe listen to the comments in this forum & fix what is a fundamental failure.
    Also, Lightroom won't use my GPU - Ok it's 4 years old but the drivers are up to date. I can't be the only person using a 4 year old PC.
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    amdkt7
    Inspiring
    May 4, 2015
    I got the first update which seems to have helped with some issues. I still have GPU acceleration turned off. Changing to the next image seems snappier. I have not done an import yet, but the export that I did last night seemed to take much longer than normal. I really don't have all day to wait on photos to import, and it can be terribly inconvenient to wait overnight for a few hundred images to come in so that I can work on them. My 4 GHZ, 8 core system, with 16gig of ram is spinning up the fans to full speed and the Windows resource monitor shows all the cores maxed out. BTW, with that running only 6 gig of ram is being used.
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    oysteinm
    Participant
    May 4, 2015
    Much slower in CC/6.
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