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Theory417184070
Theory417184070
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June 25, 2025
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Adobe Lightroom 14.4 Develop module slow down when moving through images

  • June 25, 2025
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Since the latest update, 14.4, I am experiencing pauses in Lightroom whenever I browse images in the strip of the develop module. Simply put, when I skip images with the direction arrows to the right, the main viewport (with the current image) does not update itself sometimes as I scroll. This happens randomly but frequently. It will take around 4-5 seconds until the main viewport updates itself with the actual current image.

 

Mac Mini M4 Pro - Sequoia 15.5 (48 Gigs of ram)

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piotr_7435
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July 14, 2025

The 14.4 update causes very, very slow switching between photos (RAW), the previous version works fast, I had to revert to the previous one, I'm only talking about normal viewing of RAW from Canon R6, it is impossible to use version 14.4 at the moment, it takes a few seconds to switch between photos, clearing the cache did nothing.

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    saitejagopi2894
    Adobe Employee
    June 25, 2025

    @Theory417184070 

    Thanks for posting. Could you please try the following steps and let us know if you notice any performance improvements?

    Performance Optimization Steps:

    1. Go to Preferences → Performance
    2. Under Camera Raw Cache Settings, click Purge Cache
    3. After purging the cache, restart your machine

    Let us know how it goes!

    Theory417184070
    Theory417184070Author
    Participating Frequently
    June 26, 2025

    Did as you instructed. Slowdown is still there.

    Could it be the applied noise reduction to all images?

    Ian Lyons
    Community Expert
    Ian LyonsCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    June 26, 2025

    Have you tried browse through a batch of images that haven't been denoised?

    nikunj.m
    Community Manager
    nikunj.mCommunity Manager
    Community Manager
    June 25, 2025

    Hi, thanks for reaching out, and we're sorry about the trouble! Could you help us with a bit more info? 

    How big is the catalog that you're working on? Where are the originals saved? When did you start experiencing this behavior? 

    You can start by trying to optimize the preferences of Lightroom Classic to check if that makes a difference. You can check more about it here: https://adobe.ly/43ZrCN3

     

    Thanks,
    Nikunj

    Theory417184070
    Theory417184070Author
    Participating Frequently
    June 25, 2025

    Hi! Thanks for replying.

    The catalogue is 8.97 GB in size. I optimzed it too, with no change.

    The originals are saved on my SSD drive, on the desktop.

    It started right now after I updated to Lightroom Classic 14.4.

     

    I did optimmize everything, and still the same result. Im on a Fast source (ssd), with tons of Ram (48Gb) and lots of free space on the ssd drive too.

     

    I would like to add one thing which may or may not be important: I de-noised all the images im currently working on (1226 of them) within the develop module (which is new in this last version, used to be you could do it in the libary). The de-noising, which took forever, was completed yesterday, so its not currently active.

     

     

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