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Lightroom Classic 11.4 very slow to export.

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June 15, 2022
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Just Updated to the newet version on Mac OS Monterey on my M1 Pro and Export speeds have decreased exponentially! Its Soooo slow. Exporting 500 RAW to JPG photos would take a couple of minutes, now its gone to at least 3 times slower....

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Correct answer ELBOB2583

So I did some testing on 11.3.1 and 11.4 with 250 images. Exportednin 11.3.1 then Uninstalled LR and installed directly to 11.4 and that did the trick. Both export times where very similar, with 11.4 bein a couple of seconds behind, and exporting 250 images under 5 minutes.

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Benjamin24934186qllw

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I have a MacBook M1 Max with 64 GB RAM and yesterday I installed the new version, that is 14.5. The export is incredibly slow. I do not know why. Exporting 3000 JPEGs suddenly takes hours. This started all of a sudden a few days ago with version 14.4 and has not improved with 14.5. I am a professional photographer and depend on LR...

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Benjamin24934186qllw

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However, I just noticed that the loading bar just stops, then jumps again and 3/4, but the images still continue and quickly end up in the export folder.

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Benjamin24934186qllw

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Sorry, me again.Above you can see the loading bars of the two exports. Below the already exported amount of images (in total a bit more than 3000 images). Just now when exporting, it simply didn't export 400 images at all. I am getting desperate. This is really existential.

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AnthonyToglife

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I'm not sure what the performance was like with 11.4.1 as I didn't update to it, but I did update to 11.5 today and upon testing, it appears the problem has been fixed. I exported 90 images at full res in about 15-20 seconds. I'll report back if I notice any issues or slow-downs as I process more images.

DdeGannes

Community Expert

Thanks for the heads up.

Regards, Denis: iMac 27” mid-2015, macOS 11.7.10 Big Sur; 2TB SSD, 24 GB Ram, GPU 2 GB; LrC 12.5,; Lr 6.5, PS 24.7,; ACR 15.5,; (also Laptop Win 11, ver 24H2, LrC 15.0.1, PS 27.0; ) Camera Oly OM-D E-M1.

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LOMOLCW

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I has been so slow during the past month I am almost proficient at Capture one while I wait

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LOMOLCW

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building 1:1 preview. slow and low resource utilization

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AnthonyToglife

Known Participant

There's definitely an issue with 11.4. I have a fully-spec'd M1 Pro and it took almost 30 minutes to export 96 images, set to 800 pixels on the long edge and absolutely no editing on the files (aside from adding a watermark). Uninstalled 11.4 and reverted back to 11.3.1, took under 2 minutes to export all 170 images. Adobe screwed something up, per usual.

Jeanine Daigle

Participant

just uninstalled and now it's exporting. I was on the phone with Adobe for over 2.5 hours today. Told me it was the edit/preset. (I use the same one all the time ..)

found this page tonight. Uninstalled the update and bam it's exporting ...

chrism72262530

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I am also finding a massive decrease in export times since "up-grading" to 11.4

Macbook Pro 16 M1 Pro (2021) - Montery 12.3.1 - 16gb - 1Tb (over 300Gb available)

atleast 2 to 3x slower and the CPU usage in Activity Moniter hardley even ramps up 30-40%

Where before the CPU usage was running close to 100% for the duration of the export.

chrism72262530

Participant

I think I may have found a solution - Preferences / Performance / Camera Raw - Make sure 'Use Graphics Processor' is set to 'Custom' and select 'Use GPU for Display' and NOT "Use GPU for Export'

Restart Lightroom and exports are super-speedy again using nearly 100% of CPU power available.

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AnthonyToglife

Known Participant

This didn't work for me. Only solution was reverting back to 11.3.1. I can't wait an hour to export images that usually only take a minute or two, SMH. Hopefully Adobe addresses this.

ELBOB2583AuthorCorrect answer

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So I did some testing on 11.3.1 and 11.4 with 250 images. Exportednin 11.3.1 then Uninstalled LR and installed directly to 11.4 and that did the trick. Both export times where very similar, with 11.4 bein a couple of seconds behind, and exporting 250 images under 5 minutes.

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sdinweoinasd9384152

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On my Windows computer, I found that 11.4 would create more than 15 blank files during export, which I assume means that it's working on 15+ images at the same time in parallel. With 11.3 and older, it would only have 3 or 4 blank files at the same time during export. Perhaps this extra parallelism is reducing efficiency. However, I haven't recorded the exact time for completing exports in the past, so I have no reference to check whether or not it's any different now.

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sdinweoinasd9384152

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Actually, I checked this again on my Windows computer, and I was wrong about the number of parallel images being worked on. There was actually only 2 blank files at the same time during an export job of 480 RAW to TIFF. I don't know why yesterday Windows Explorer was showing me 15+ blank thumbnails at the same time, I guess the thumbnail generation wasn't able to catch up to the file generation, but today I looked at the details view to check the file size to see whether or not they were empty.

A problem with 11.4 that might cause you to think it's slower than previous versions, is that the progress bar is showing a much smaller percentage of completion than the actual amount. It shows me 3% when 30% of the images are in the export folder, 7% when 60% is completed, and 22% when 90% is completed.

chrisfromneptune

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I used a stopwatch and for me it definately is extremely slower. It was holding up our workflow considerably so had to downgrade.

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Paul Takeuchi

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I find export nearly 1/3 as fast as before--initially. I'm on a MacPro with Mojave and 64GB RAM and 1TB Samsung NVME drive. The only consolation is it seems to speed up as time goes by. With a 288 RAW NEF export to jpeg, it takes nearly 5 minutes to export 5 files, with only like 120% CPU usage, but then it starts using more cores and it is exporting more the way before with previous update. I tried with GPU for export on and off, and no real difference. It seems like when it starts it tries to figure out the strategy for using more cores and takes a long time to decide, then suddenly after 5 minutes, it figures out there are 6 or more cores and goes much faster, using up to 650% CPU on i9900KF (8-core).

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Venkatesh Penjuri

Adobe Employee

Hi,

Could you share your export settings with us? It the export slow on CPU or GPU in LrC 11.4? If you have a lot of edits on the image, could you share a sample image with edits saved?

Venkatesh PenjuriAdobe Lightroom Team

chrisfromneptune

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Mine are simple exports of TIFs to JPEGs without any edits, without GPU.

s = {
id = "B3556DA7-B9BE-4516-BAA5-109B61F48927",
internalName = "0 Print",
title = "0 Print",
type = "Export",
value = {
collisionHandling = "ask",
embeddedMetadataOption = "copyrightAndContactOnly",
exportServiceProvider = "com.adobe.ag.export.file",
exportServiceProviderTitle = "Hard Drive",
export_colorSpace = "AdobeRGB",
export_destinationPathSuffix = "Print (high-res)",
export_destinationType = "sourceFolder",
export_useSubfolder = true,
export_videoFileHandling = "include",
export_videoFormat = "4e49434b-4832-3634-fbfb-fbfbfbfbfbfb",
export_videoPreset = "original",
extensionCase = "lowercase",
format = "JPEG",
includeFaceTagsAsKeywords = true,
includeFaceTagsInIptc = true,
includeVideoFiles = true,
initialSequenceNumber = 1,
jpeg_limitSize = 100,
jpeg_quality = 0.8,
jpeg_useLimitSize = false,
metadata_keywordOptions = "flat",
outputSharpeningLevel = 2,
outputSharpeningMedia = "screen",
outputSharpeningOn = false,
reimportExportedPhoto = false,
reimport_stackWithOriginal = false,
reimport_stackWithOriginal_position = "below",
removeFaceMetadata = true,
removeLocationMetadata = true,
renamingTokensOn = true,
selectedTextFontFamily = "Myriad Web Pro",
selectedTextFontSize = 12,
size_doConstrain = false,
size_percentage = 100,
size_resolution = 300,
size_resolutionUnits = "inch",
tokenCustomString = "",
tokens = "{{com.adobe.title}} - {{naming_sequenceNumber_2Digits}}",
tokensArchivedToString2 = "{{image_name}}",
useWatermark = false,
watermarking_id = "<simpleCopyrightWatermark>",
},
version = 0,
}