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April 6, 2025
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Slow Import

  • April 6, 2025
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lightroom classic 15.3.1. – yes i know, it is not the latest version, but i tried 14.1. and it was a complete mess. so i had to reinstall the older version. Worked fine until yesterday, unfortunately during a sports event, when it decided to slow down immediately. I had set up an automatic import– didn't work, export extreme slowly, restarted it several times, restarted the computer… this program gets on my nerves and costs me time and money. Did run a diagnostic... yesterday night all over a sudden it worked, but this morning no import … again… any ideas?

 

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dj_paige
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April 6, 2025
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Worked fine until yesterday, unfortunately during a sports event, when it decided to slow down immediately. I had set up an automatic import– didn't work, export extreme slowly, restarted it several times, restarted the computer… this program gets on my nerves and costs me time and money. Did run a diagnostic... yesterday night all over a sudden it worked, but this morning no import … again… any ideas?

 

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By @user3756666

 

This is most likely a hardware malfunction. The camera card or card reader is bad; or the cables used are malfunctioning.

Known Participant
April 6, 2025

NO. The files are perfect OK. It would be very strange that all cards (used several) and readers (two types) would be bad. 

 

Ian Lyons
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Community Expert
April 6, 2025

Make sure that you select the card reader that shows up under 'Files' rather than 'Devices'. This is Adobe's default import path as it avoids some bugs (Apple) within the Devices path that can cause performance issues, etc.

 

JohanElzenga
Community Expert
Community Expert
April 6, 2025

There is no Lightroom Classic 15.3.1. Are you perhaps confusing the Lightroom Classic version number with the MacOS version number?

 

-- Johan W. Elzenga
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April 6, 2025

no just swapt the numbers. 13.5.1.