Thank you!!!! ... View more

LR Classic regularly uses 10.35 gig of memory on my M1 Mac.  I don't think the problem started with 11.1 though, not sure. The catalog is not large at all, and I'm editing a group of 12 RAW photographs.  See snapshot of Utility Monitor.  Is this memory leaks or considered normal?  I'm up to date on the OS, evverything really.   Thank you.  (PS: I was going to start a new thread on this but can't find the "new thread" command alas.)     ... View more

10.15.3 should be ok I thought. Hmm. Try logging out your Dropbox app if you have one. ... View more

Apple has extensive beta testing program for each new release. Apple cannot test all third party software. They count on vendors to participate in the beta release program and catch bugs early in process. ... View more

I suspect that other companies use some Apple API where as Capture One writes their own. ... View more

Tethering is broken under MacOS 10.15.2.  As I understand, only backing off to 10.15.1 makes it work --- but I may not have the latest information.  Phase One claims that they have fixed the problem (worked around the problem) with their latest release of the editing software Capture One.  Other vendors are quiet about it.    I subscribe to Capture One for tethering and raw conversion for my photography studio.  I prefer to do my editing in Photoshop and Lightroom, but Capture One seems to be uniquely fast and reliable when it comes to tethering.  ... View more

Phase One sent out a fix to Capture One for this problem weeks ago.  I was thinking that Adobe could do something similar.   ... View more

Good! Glad to hear that they are aware if it. Please note that Capture One is already fixed, apparently without a fix from Apple. ... View more

No this is a specific problem with Mac 10.15.2 that did not exist in 10.15.1. This is not one of the lingering problems with Lightroom and Catalina. It is a new problem. I am now very worried that Adobe engineers and support are oblivious to this fact. By contrast, Capture One is now available with a new update that fixes the tethering problem introduced by Mac 10.15.2. Hopefully Adobe will soon issue a similar fix for Lightroom. - but someone needs to alert the engineers to the problem!!!!! Noteworthy is that Phase One, the makers of Capture One, issued a warning to its clients to NOT update to 10.15.2 many days ago. (I use Photoshop and Lightroom and Capture One all for different purposes in my photography workflow.) ... View more

I have had also Photoshop crash several times on me recently.  It's only the latest version that is doing this.   I have not upgraded my Mac to Mojave yet.   I only use Photoshop a few hours per week so it's significant that I've had crashes.  I edit headshots and portraits with perhaps a couple dozen layers, most of which are not full copies of the original but just adjustment or levels etc.  Machine is 2015 MacBook Pro maxed out.  All software is current except the OS is pre-Mojave.  I am sorry that I don't have more information about the crashing, I will keep a log from now on.   It is feasible that the crashes occurred because I had Chrome open with a several dozen window/tabs open.  I'm not convinced that Chrome plays well with other applications and memory when a lot of windows/tabs are opened.  I've since cut back.  But again, it's only the latest version of Photoshop that is crashing on me.   Perhaps it's a memory leak like Lightroom used to have?  We shall see.   ... View more

YES it would be great to be able to specify max 3 backups or something more sophisticated.  In the meantime, at least TELL people that it's ok to delete backups!   First, they may not be aware of them, and second, like me, they may initially fear deleting backups thinking that they are incremental rather than individually complete.  ... View more

Thanks to both of you for the information you provided above.   I did not fully understand the issue of meta data in this context.   I experimented a little bit and even just altering the rating color in Lightroom is considered a change in "metadata" that prompts this message.   It looks like I can reliably choose "overwrite settings".   I will experiment a bit more to be sure.   Thanks for the advice. ... View more

I never even use presets but my new version of LR is stuck in "updating presets" after 20 minutes at least.    MBPr 13" 2015 16gb 1tb I7 everything updated including OS.    ... View more

20 minutes later the "converting to presets" is still showing the box on my screen and I can't use LR unless I do a force quit.   I don't even use presets!!! I am on a MacBook Pro with everything updated to latest including OS.   16gig memory, 1tb storage with 80gig free.  I7.  ... View more

That makes sense -- and is what I was hoping would happen. ... View more

I am expecting that I won't see the individual layers when I open the TIF in Lightroom. This file started out as an "edit in" from Lightroom to Photoshop where I added layers. I am just wondering what to expect upon return to Lightroom if the top layer is not a merged version of the other layers. Is Lightroom just using the top layer upon return, or, does it merge the active layers?  Or does it merge all the layers, active or not? Thanks, Art ... View more

Yikes.  So what do I get when I import the tif file into Lightroom, and it has layers? ... View more

Good point, I forgot to ask whether the 2017 13" itself would be faster than the 2015 13" .... ... View more

1. History.   Performance became an issue in the transition from v5.7 to v6.x.   I think that Adobe developers should look at that transition to understand what went wrong to make LR performance so problematic.  Did they change software development systems?  Data structures?  Did they shift the development process to more junior personnel? 2. Scrolling through images.  Personally I keep the scrolling in G mode going just fine by periodically recreating 1-1 previews.   I think that the decision to use embedded jpegs (jpegs existing in the raws) for the initial scrolling is brilliant.  I use the built-in jpegs to do my initial culling (say from 200 images down to 50) and then I periodically run the process of creating 1-1 previews to assure rapid scrolling through my edited images. 3. D mode.  During editing in D mode I find that LR Classic is much faster than some of the more notoriously slow versions 6.x but still bogs down after a lot of skin edits on a headshot.  So I absolutely see a lot of improvement in speed of editing relative to the worst v6.x situation many months ago. 4. My configuration:  I keep GPU turned off, 100gig free on SSD, 40 gig cache and minimize the other open applications on my 2015 maxed out MacBook Pro 13" (1TB SSD, 16 gig memory, I7).  I run a 24" 4k Dell in 2k mode (to get sharp text and it works!).  I work with multiple small catalogs rather than one big one, and I optimize the catalog with pathological frequency.  I keep "background creation of previews" turned off.  Raw images come from Nikon D810 mostly, sometimes D750. Please everyone that addresses the speed issue, please provide details on your configuration.  (Many people already do that - thanks!) ... View more

LR Classic might be making previews in the background.    This could cause a slowdown. There is a new option, probably you are aware, that it will let you cull using the JPEG's embedded in the RAW images.   There is a check box which MIGHT be checked by default where LR Classic makes new previews in the background while you are doing other work.  It can turned off.  ... View more

IMPORTANT:  If you want to do fast culling, select the option for using "embedded" preview - that is, the preview embedded the RAW. Now suppose that you do that.   There is another option - which I suspect is checked by default - where Lightroom creates new previews in the background while you are doing other work.   That hogs CPU. This might account for: a. apparent slowdown, as well as .... b. why some people experience the slowdown and others do not. ... View more

I have had new problems in 2015.12 related to running out of "application memory" during import of new photographs, and once it just got hung during import.   Also prior to executing the import I sometimes see a list of photographs that are in a neighboring folder rather than the folder I selected, and then it can't find thumbnails for those new photos.  I will try to take more specific notes about the situation it if happens again.    ... View more

A pre-import "cull" mode would be great. ... View more

Closing LR, it asks if I want to backup, then it complains that my catalog is over 4GB.   Actually the catalog is 60meg and previews are around 160meg.   This is a BUG.   I think it did a compressed backup anyway, despite the erroneous warning.    Please fix this, it is worrisome.  Using LR 2015.8 CC latest version on a 2015 MacBook Pro.   Thank you. ... View more

I am returning a MacBook Pro 15" 2016 with AMD 460.   It ran ok in D mode when I unchecked the graphics GPU in preferences, but when I checked the box for graphics GPU then D mode ground to a halt.  Apple Store genius bar diagnosed a "voltage problem" with my machine.   Maybe so, and I am returning it.   But I am also going to wait before buying another one to see whether other people report the same problem that I did. Did I have the GPU problem because of voltage regulation or is there some incompatibility between Lightroom software and the GPU that Apple is using? If you buy this machine I recommend that the first thing you do is either (a) install lightroom and test it with and without GPU turned on, and (b) go to Apple Store and have them preemptively run full diagnostics as a precaution. It would have saved me several days of time, doing installations on my new machine and then many hours diagnosing the problem.  Sigh. ... View more