P: Ability to set up a queue up and schedule several tasks at a time when not by your computer

It would be wonderful if you could Queue to export. Right now we process a lot of photos per day for seniors and exporting slows our workflow down significantly. If we had the ability to go through and make our corrections then click export, add to queue, and then when we go to lunch or go home at night to start the queue so all the sources are used when we don't need the computer that would be wonderful.

Publishing services helps with this. Start publishing when you feel like it, cancel publishing if you feel like it. Since publishing service remembers which photos are published and which aren't, canceling is equivalent to pausing.

I don't guess that helps with web galleries, but hey...

Lightroom: Queue! Wouldn't it be great, if you could set up your JPEG Export, your Web Gallery Export and Web Gallery upload into a queue, then run them (or other processes, too) consecutively and automatically while you went for lunch? I know I would!

I like this idea and it would allow me to queue up several items at the end of my evening to pick up in the morning.

A simple example might be the following that might otherwise take hours.
Which if tried to be done at the same time and while you are trying to use Lightroom during your day would completely take over your computer doing nothing else. Them doing all simultanously would also slow them all down to a crawl.

So being able to assign a series of process and then labeling them as concurrent or independent processes would be helpful.

That said, a better queue manager in itself would be useful today in Lightroom beyond the micro-status bars that are currently available.

For example.. a simply application.
1) Export Shoot 1 using profile X
2) Export Shoot 2 using profile X
3) Export Shoot 3 using profile Y
4) Render 1:1 Previews for Shoot 4
5) Render Standard Previews for Shoot 5
6) Render 1:1 Previews for Shoot 5
7) Apply Preset X to Shoot 6
8) Export Shoot 7 as Catalog to location W
9) Import Shoot 8 from Catalog from location S
10) Render 1:1 & Standard previews for Shoot 8
11) Publish to my smugmug shoot 2
12) Publish to my Flickr shoot 2
13) Optimize Catalog
14) Display batch job status

Christopher

Again, well said Rob.

The purpose of this request is *not* just to work around crashing - responsiveness is also a factor (see original post).

In an ideal world, Lightroom (and other apps) would be responsive and reliable despite a multitude of background parallel processing tasks, but that doesn't mean the ability to hold-off the background processing sometimes is a bad idea.

For years, I was unable to play high def video while Lightroom was exporting.

And Adobe often recommends turning off auto-write xmp if your brush is hesitating or you're having other problems for which it might be a factor.

And I've re-written more than one plugin (written by different authors) to offload FTP to an external app to work around ongoing FTP stability issues.

We do not live in an ideal world...

That's a bad idea.

If the application is crashing, fix the crasher bug. Adding a new feature to put a human in the loop for scheduling tasks is not the solution.

Exactly, and that's the reason I suggested this. Let the computer work when I'm not working on it. 🙂

I like this idea allot!

Theoretically, background processing could be done in tandem with foreground processing, if background processing is lower priority and interruptable, but my experience is that Lightroom crashes more often when I continue working with exports in progress. So, I tend to initiate exports after a round of edits, and take a break until exports are finished...