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mbmcargoteech
mbmcargoteech
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April 20, 2023
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Lightroom classic sorting issue

  • April 20, 2023
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I use LR Classic primarily for tagging my photos. My collection includes plus minus 500,000 photos. These photos are on a Nas which is connected via a 10 Gigabit network to the PC on which LR is installed. The LR database is on an SSD. Tagging is difficult, the synchronization is ok at first but after tagging a few dozen photos the speed drops completely. If I keep working LR gets upset and just spontaneously starts changing the sorting of filename to capture time. If I change it back to file name as intended, the order is completely searchable. I can't get these sorted anymore either. The only option is to optimize the database. Is this done then I can work again as usual after which the above situation repeats itself again. Actually, it is impossible to work with LR. LR's advice to improve performance is irrelevant. For tagging I use smart collections to limit the number of files. The photo files are distributed in a folder structure on the nas. The nas is not used for anything else. The network speed when using Bridge, Photoshop and Camera RAW is excellent. For example, I can quietly retrieve and edit 50 scans of 90Mb (TIFF Hi-res scans) simultaneously without hickups. The photos I tag are JPEGs on a web format to keep the file size down.

Who recognizes this problem, is it a bug, what is the solution or alternative?

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F. McLion
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F. McLionCommunity Expert
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April 20, 2023

- How about preview status of the photos?

- Do you write metadata to XML?

- Do you write metadata back to the jpg's?

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mbmcargoteech
mbmcargoteechAuthor
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April 20, 2023

Hi,

I have attached screenshots showing the catalogue settings. I assume this will suffice and otherwise just let me know if you need more.

I write the tags to the jpegs so I can use them in other programmes too.

 

Regards,

Reinder

mbmcargoteech
mbmcargoteechAuthor
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April 23, 2023

I went a little further in testing and looking for the cause. In a smart collection with quite a few filters, the problem is even worse. I can literally place one tag, the next one immediately shows a huge increase in processing time. If there are multiple tags, normally I process dozens of tags in a row, the process is no longer trackable. Only waiting helps. After a database optimization the tags are eventually processed. If the database is not optimized then LR completely loses its way and the tags are no longer placed either. Usually the change to an unwanted sorting also takes place then. Unfortunately LR does not give any warning or error. It is very depressing to have to tag photos several times before it finally works once. Of course, I also looked at the system. The CPU is nawuously loaded, the Nvidia video card is fully tuned for maximum support. The latter proves itself opening extensive collections is smoothly fast.

 

Note: I have no idea if my database with its 450,000 photos is large by LR standards. I would love to hear from LR users what their experiences are with collections like mine or even larger. Continuing as it is now seems less and less of an option.

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