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July 12, 2024
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Lightroom only processes currently visible photographs after import

  • July 12, 2024
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To import I create a specific folder, copy the photographs there from the card, remove the card reader, start Lightroom and import from the folder. Lightroom then does it's thing where it processes each image, darkening each one as it goes. But recently it has started only processing the images that are currently seen in the Library Filter.

 

To process the next group of 120 images, I have to scroll down to make them visible. I can tell this is happening because aside from the visual indicator of Lightroom darkening each image as it goes, a process monitor shows me the CPU is working hard to do so. It stops when it reaches the end of what's currently visible and will go no further. I know that it used to batch process every image in there, whether I was looking at them in the Library Filter or not.

 

As you can see in this screenshot I have apparently selected Minimal build previews. Is this what's causing it? Will switching to Embedded/Sidecar or Normal fix this? Or is there another setting somewhere that's causing this?


If you take a look at this screenshot you can see the currently viewed images in the Library Filter. If I had just finished importing, Lightroom would only process those images. For it to process any others, I have to scroll to have them show in the Library Filter.


What setting can I change that'll make Lightroom automatically batch process every single photograph whenever I import?

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JohanElzenga
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Community Expert
July 12, 2024

I think Lightroom does process all of them, but it won't update the preview until the image is visible in the grid. Lightroom Classic 13.4 changed the way previews are built, so this may be different from earlier versions.

 

-- Johan W. Elzenga
AzhreiAuthor
Participant
July 12, 2024

I'd say that is true but for the fact that my processor fans go nuts and the system resource monitor shows the CPU is being used very heavily when the images are in view, and then dies down completely. If I leave it sitting there for ten minutes then come back and scroll down to the next 120 images, the CPU fans spin up again, the system resource program shows the CPU is being tasked and the images start darkening one by one.

JohanElzenga
Community Expert
Community Expert
July 12, 2024

Yes, that is the previews being built when the images come into view.

 

-- Johan W. Elzenga