P: LR4 extremely slow web module gallery building

I would really like to know if this was a known issue before release? I find it impossible to believe this wasn't caught in QC. I'm livid as I sit and watch my progress bar inch along. This is beyond unacceptable. I need to figure out how to revert back to LR3 until a fix is made. Huge nose-thumb to Adobe on this one.

Same issue, 4x slower. This needs to be fixed ASAFP. Unacceptable. I'm letting others on all forums know not to upgrade if they haven't already done so.

When will the fix be ready?

Thanks guys, Lightroom QE was able to reproduce this issue and we have a bug logged internally to fix this in an update.

Completely agree. It's a significant problem.

Your logic is off. Whether we all are critical of new products at launch is not material in addressing the fact that this version is slow. The main point you are avoiding in order to wax philosophical is that LR4 seems to be slower than the last version. We gotta expect at least THAT to not be true. Rah-rah LR4 elsewhere while we with problems try to get something done about it.

On this machine, LR 3 performed wonderfully.

Maybe we should take a minute and reflect on what was said about LR3's performance when it came out ....

Beat

And my two cents... Yes, much slower (in all modules) and therefore less of a practical tool than was LR 3. What a disappointment.

We are running the app on a mid-2010 MacBook Pro with OS X Lion, 4GB RAM, plenty of HD space, etc. The graphics card is the NVIDIA GeForce 320M 256 MB.

On this machine, LR 3 performed wonderfully. Not so for LR 4. Wish we had not made the upgrade.

(By the way, any way to get a refund?)

Yes, things are so slow that it defeats the very purpose of this software. Cropping takes three to four seconds for each change in the process. Sliders hesitate before moving. Exports take two birthdays to complete. Everything is slow, and, again, this defeats the very purpose of this software for professional photo processing in bulk.

Win7 64, 16 GB RAM, Core 2 Quad.

Let's not ignore the elephant in the room.

I' m using 3.6 and will not update untill the performance problem of the web module will be fixed.

Greetings from Germany

Rainer

OSX 10.6.8
LR 3.6
MacPro quad-Core Xeon 2,8