P: LR4 extremely slow web module gallery building

Im on LR4. On a Mac. Its taken all day to make a web file from 375 images. What is wrong with LR? Im going to start using Capture One Pro for contact sheets. This stinks and I don't see any solution on this site.

I don't know what you are getting at? LR3 also had the Export (to HD) and Upload (to FTP) options. Performance in LR3 was much better for the export to HD option that LR4 is. I also found the upload option slower than exporting to HD and using a FTP client to upload myself. I haven't used that option in LR4 as it wasn't great in LR3.

All I want is the export to HD to be as fast in LR4 as it was in LR3. At the moment it is painfully slow. I'm considering an install of LR3 which I'll export jpegs from LR4 to just so I can use the faster Web export.

Well, Julian, LR 3 did have the export to FTP.

I am exporting from LR4 to the HD, I don't use the Upload option which is something that wasn't great even in LR3.

I don't think it is ever a good idea to export from LR, no matter what version. I always export locally to the HD and then use FileZilla to upload to the site. MUCH BETTER.

Yes I am running 4.1, the gallery generation (I'm also using TTG) isn't too bad. It's the export that is painfully slow.

I used to be able to generate and export 2 or 3 galleries with a couple of hundred pics a piece in each within an hour. Now it takes all afternoon 😞

have you updated to LR 4.1? That has made generating galleries a lot faster than the initial LR 4 release

I've only just got around to exporting Web content from LR4... The performance is not up to par, updating my galleries used to be measured in minutes in LR3.6. It's now taking hours in LR4.

same problem using the gallery-tool for a local gallery..

Choose to Export the web gallery rather than Upload the web gallery, and then it will be local, no FTP.