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October 14, 2019
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Optimizing Lightroom Catalog at 12+ hours

  • October 14, 2019
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Hello,

 

I have Lightroom Classic and a subscriber. I'm optimizing my catalog, it's currently at 12+ hours and still going. The last time I successfully optimized was Aug and took ~1 hour.

 

My system:

Catalina 10.15

Macbook Pro 

2.9 GHZ 6-core i9

32 GB 

Radeon Pro Vega 20 4GB

Intel UHD Graphics 630 1536 MB 

4TB hard drive 

 

The processors are active between 77% - 180%

Lightroom Classic is using only 79.6 GB of memory

Swap is 33.75 GB of 35 GB with no page swapping

System pressure at 35%

 

My concern is the optimization is hung and thrashing without making any progress.

 

Is there something i can do or do i need to wait it out?

 

 

Regards,

DS

 

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    iso62Author
    Inspiring
    October 15, 2019

    GoldingD
    GoldingD
    Legend
    October 15, 2019

    You may want to use Disk Utility to check this hard drives health.

     

    GoldingD
    GoldingD
    Legend
    October 15, 2019

    A more important casual observance. Also not the cause of your issue. A folder called a Backups. Is that where you are keeping your catalog backups?

     

    Bad bad bad, if this hard drive goes Kaput, your catalog AND your backup of the catalog go Kaput.

     

     

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    iso62Author
    Inspiring
    October 15, 2019

    Yep, one huge catalog and i store it there.

    GoldingD
    GoldingD
    Legend
    October 15, 2019

    A casual observation, probably not related to your issue. You appear to be storing your a Lightroom settings with the catalog. Or did at one time. If you have just one catalog, probably not an issue. But not normal practice.

     

    GoldingD
    GoldingD
    Legend
    October 15, 2019

    note, was having ipad battery issues, had to finish previous reply late.

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    iso62Author
    Inspiring
    October 15, 2019

    Had one yesterday.

    GoldingD
    GoldingD
    Legend
    October 15, 2019

    hmmm

     

    What's up with all that old temporary import data? Having crashes?

     

    https://www.lightroomqueen.com/community/threads/temporary-import-data-db-is-what-exactly.19734/

     

    I assume that your current catalog is "Harlem Masters", and that it is open. If when you can, close lightroom, do most of those go away?

     

     

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    iso62Author
    Inspiring
    October 15, 2019

    Here is the contents of the directory where my lrcat resides. I have not had any problems with my cat and it's quite robust....until two days ago when i decided to optimize 😞

     

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    iso62Author
    Inspiring
    October 15, 2019

    Hello,

     

    I'm using 8.4.1 and the cat resides on my 4tb internal with 1.27tb free.

     

    DS

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