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thaehn
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June 9, 2010
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Lightroom 3 Freezes On Dust Spot Removal

  • June 9, 2010
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I am going through a 300 old photos that were scanned to .jpg files and cropping/adjusting the photos to create a DVD slide show.  When I first started, Lightroom locked up a couple times using the dust spot removal tool.  The cursor was a closed hand and nothing responded.  After killing the app a couple of times, It was working for about a hour, and then started having problems again.  When I clicked on the spot removal tool, the cursor stayed as a closed hand.  I quit and came back it. The spot removal again locked up the application.  It seems to happen on larger spot removals.  Trying to modify the large spot removals also causes Lightroom to hang up (last time was with a resize cursor). 

I am running the 64 bit version on Windows 7 Professional, 6GB Ram, Quad-Core, no other programs running.  My 300 photos and catalog (with ony these photos in it) are on on an Solid State Drive.  I am using duel monitors with duel ATI Radeon HD 4600 1GB cards.

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    Anonymous
    June 17, 2010

    I have same problem, on Dust Spot (Heal) and on Local Adjustment Brush.  I recall Lightroom 2 initial release suffered in this way until Adobe released an emergency patch and these problems went away.

    I am running Vista x64 with Core 2 Quad 2.4GHz and 6GB ram.  LR 2.7 was fast with the rendering.  Expected LR3 to be faster, per the various WoW reports on how much faster the 3 beta was than LR 2.

    I suppose I must wait for LR3 patch 1.

    - Peter

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    Graham in NC
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    June 17, 2010

    Are your video card drivers up to date? Nvidia released new drivers June 15th. I don't see any particular difference, good or bad, from the April release drivers I was using.

    There has to be some common denominator. I (and others) don't suffer the slowdown/freeze/crash issues with Lightroom 3 that plagues some. Other than video card drivers (and certain Wacom tablet drivers), what could it be?

    Graham

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    Anonymous
    June 17, 2010

    ok.. I'll try find latest nvidia installer and see how it goes.

    thanks

    - Peter

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    Graham in NC
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    June 17, 2010

    I haven't had a complete "lockup", but I have seen severely slowed behavior with the dust spot removal tool... but only when using lens correction first. Try performing any spot removal first before lens correction and see if that makes any difference.

    Graham

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    thaehnAuthor
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    June 17, 2010

    These photos were scanned into .jpg files, there was no lens correction.  It does lock up.  I waited over ten minutes and still no response.  I do notice that when I move either the source or target circles is when it happens (only on large spot removal).  It has happened many more times.

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    Graham in NC
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    June 17, 2010

    thaehn wrote:

    These photos were scanned into .jpg files, there was no lens correction.  It does lock up.  I waited over ten minutes and still no response.  I do notice that when I move either the source or target circles is when it happens (only on large spot removal).  It has happened many more times.

    You apparently have issues unrelated to mine. My DSR tool functions well with my images (raws from 25MB Sony a850) without the lens correction tool having been used.

    Graham

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    mosscampion13
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    June 17, 2010

    The same thing has been happening to me today...very frustrating!  I run LR3 on Windows XP with 2 GB ram, not impressive but still.  I was working on a photo and did several spot removals (~10), some large, and I was trying to adjust the size of this one when Lightroom froze.  I shut it down in the task manager and then tried it again after opening Lightroom--same thing happened--LR froze.  Tried it 4 times, even rebooted my computer.  Eventually I just gave up.  In general the spot removal tool is always SLOW but freezing LR is not acceptable.

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    thaehnAuthor
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    June 17, 2010

    Yes.  I have had the same thing.

    Basically, I go on to more photos and then come back to the one I was working on.  I also think making the circle really small and doing several instald of one works when I come back.

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