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Karlie Karl
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October 13, 2022
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Lightroom Classic 11.5 has ground to a halt

  • October 13, 2022
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I've searched for discussions on this, but can only find stuff relating to some while ago.

 

I very recently (Oct 2022) underwent an auto update in Windows 10 and my Lightroom Classic 11.5 has become virtually useless. My regularly-used catalogs are quite large (in excess of 200,000 photos), but this hasn't been any problem whatsoever up to now. My system is i7, 16Gb RAM, 4Gb graphics card, oodles of drive space. I regularly update the nVidia display driver, so that is at the latest version it can be. All was working fairly smoothly (with maybe a recent - last 12 months - perceivable, slight loss of performance as the databases got bigger) until this recent OS update. I have set options in Preferences to lean towards performance with a cache of 15Gb. However, most times the program doesn't launch. I have to repeatedly restart the PC and then when it does launch it goes so grindingly slowly that I lose the will to live. It is mind-blowingly slow; uploading new photos takes a minute per photo, often more - the software seems to hunt around on the SD card (reformatted every time used) and load images in a random order, whereas it used to always load them in the order they were taken - switching over to the develop module can take 30-60 seconds - switching folders takes ages, when it used to be instant - the imported photos are not displayed in the library as the upload proceeds, they just appear at the end - the list goes on. I've set up a new catalog with only a couple of hundred images in it and all of these problems still apply, so it cannot be caused by the size of the catalog.

 

No other programs on the PC seem to be affected in any way whatsoever. The PC is easily capable of handling all except Lightroom with blinding speed.

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Correct answer Karlie Karl

Hi Sameer,

 

Much appreciated that you've taken time to respond. This was quite urgent, so I worked through the right through the night last night and think I've discovered the source of the issue... and I think what I've discovered partially overlaps with your suggestion.

 

My catalogs are quite large (I have a total of about 600k photos) and two of my catalogs contained 200-250k each. As I said, eveything was cool until the day that I had an automatic OS update the night before. However, looking back that might just have been a massive coincidence... Sod's Law we call it here in the UK. My Lr catalogs were kept at that point on a quality 7200rpm internal hard drive (which is working fine), but I think my two main catalogs had just tipped Lr over the edge in respect of maybe not being quite fast enough to handle such large catalogs without getting lost. I decided to rebuild a copy of the largest catalog on an internal SSD and that seems to have cured the problem completely. I've rebuilt copies of all my catalogs and the program is singing like Whitney Houston now! I can edit pretty much instantly, all photos (I added some new ones today) are uploading as they should, exports are quick, brushes are working instantly, masking is pretty much instant, moving around from folder to folder is a breeze and switching between the two massive catalogs takes around 10 seconds - more than happy with that.

 

Once again, thanks for your time. Much appreciated.

 

Enjoy the rest of your day.

 

MARK

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Sameer K
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Sameer KCommunity Manager
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October 13, 2022

Thanks for reaching out with the details. I'd love to help you with this.

 

You have made some logical efforts to pin down the issue.

Where do you usually keep your catalog files? On the internal drive or an external drive?

 

For optimizing the overall performance of Lightroom Classic, check the detailed article for reasons & ways to go: https://helpx.adobe.com/lightroom-classic/kb/optimize-performance-lightroom.html

 

The issue could be a sorting order in your Lightroom for the imported images going to the bottom.

  • Press the T key to show/hide the Toolbar in the grid view in Library.
  • Set the following criteria to your preferences.

     

What input devices do you use? Please unplug any external peripherals & external drives as a test to see if the performance improves.

 

Let me know how it goes,
Thanks!
Sameer K

 

 

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Karlie KarlAuthorCorrect answer
Inspiring
October 13, 2022

Hi Sameer,

 

Much appreciated that you've taken time to respond. This was quite urgent, so I worked through the right through the night last night and think I've discovered the source of the issue... and I think what I've discovered partially overlaps with your suggestion.

 

My catalogs are quite large (I have a total of about 600k photos) and two of my catalogs contained 200-250k each. As I said, eveything was cool until the day that I had an automatic OS update the night before. However, looking back that might just have been a massive coincidence... Sod's Law we call it here in the UK. My Lr catalogs were kept at that point on a quality 7200rpm internal hard drive (which is working fine), but I think my two main catalogs had just tipped Lr over the edge in respect of maybe not being quite fast enough to handle such large catalogs without getting lost. I decided to rebuild a copy of the largest catalog on an internal SSD and that seems to have cured the problem completely. I've rebuilt copies of all my catalogs and the program is singing like Whitney Houston now! I can edit pretty much instantly, all photos (I added some new ones today) are uploading as they should, exports are quick, brushes are working instantly, masking is pretty much instant, moving around from folder to folder is a breeze and switching between the two massive catalogs takes around 10 seconds - more than happy with that.

 

Once again, thanks for your time. Much appreciated.

 

Enjoy the rest of your day.

 

MARK

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