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December 25, 2025
Question

lightroom classic slow and not responding

  • December 25, 2025
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just recently, my Lightroom Classic has been so slow and sluggish and basically "not responding" after a bit. I have done all the recommended fixes: optimize catalog, purge cache, use graphics processor, preview gen "on" catalog settings to a preview 2880 and turned off assisted culling.

After a restart it works for a bit then goes back to slow or "hanging up" and it slows my whole system down. If lightroom is not running, everything is fine on my computer. So safe to assume it is lightroom? I have a few friends having this problem but no solutions. My computer is only 2 years old, and yes did all the cache cleaning and system efficiency checks. Help! thank you!

3 replies

dj_paige
Legend
December 26, 2025

What actions in LrC are slow? Please be specific and detailed.

Community Expert
December 26, 2025

Please provide a copy of your 'System Info'. This can be get from the LrC Help > System Info menu item. There's a copy button in the System Info dialog. Press this button and paste the info into your next forum post.

 

My System: Intel i7-8700K - 64GB RAM - NVidia Geforce RTX 3060 - Windows 11 Pro 25H2 -- LR-Classic 15 - Photoshop 27 - Nik Collection 9 - PureRAW 6 - Topaz Photo AI
Community Manager
December 25, 2025

Hi @angelyogadiva, welcome to the community! Sorry to hear you’re running into issues with Lightroom Classic.
Here are some general tips that can help improve performance:
https://adobe.ly/4qpMuFq


If that doesn’t do the trick, could you share a bit more info so we can troubleshoot better?

What version of Lightroom Classic are you using?
Does the issue happen in a brand-new catalog or only in your current one?
Could you share your System Info? You’ll find it under Help > System Info in Lightroom Classic. Just copy it into a text file and attach it here, or share via Google Drive, WeTransfer, or another file-sharing service.

Thanks!
Alek

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