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Question

Suddenly, spinning beachball in everything I do

Forum|Forum|1 year ago
September 16, 2024
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Hi everyone,

I've been a Lightroom Classic user for many, many years.

Never had this issue on this machine (Mac M1 Max, 64 GB RAM). LRC was always buttery smooth.

Recently however I made a few changes:

- I got a Synology NAS for my photos (almost 17 TB) connected via ethernet (1 Gbps)

- I merged two catalogs I had (previously I'd load them individually to work on the photos)

- I created 1:1 previews for a huge percentage of my catalog (the previews folder alone is ~4 TB in size)

I don't know which one of these changes is the culprit, but suddenly I can't do ANYTHING in LRC without getting the endless beachball of death.

Touch a slider? Beachball. Zoom into a photo? Beachball. Even "I" (info overlay) has a huge lag. In short, it's completely unusable.

Obviously I've rebooted and shut down every other app and only have LRC loaded, and still, same problem.

Please help... thank you.

macOS

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Jao vdL

Community Expert

If you have automatic xmp writes turned on, turn it off. If you are syncing anything to the cloud, pause it. See if this helps (it's a test). There appears to be a bug seeing some reports here that some people experience when both of these are on that makes lightroom incredibly slow and also has the effect of invalidating previews constantly. I would guess you can even experience this with just xmp writes turned on.

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joesaoAuthor

Inspiring

Thank you Jao, both were already turned off so that can't be it...

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Jao vdL

Community Expert

Thanks for checking. That's clearly not it then indeed.

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joesaoAuthor

Inspiring

Sorry, I forgot to add some details that might matter:

- I'm running LRC v. 13.5

- OS is Sonoma 14.6.1

- My merged catalog has over 178k photos, all RAWs, and each file is between 100-200 Mb

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joesaoAuthor

Inspiring

Ugh, one more detail I forgot:

- The LRC catalog and ALL previews are kept on the Mac (I have an 8 TB SSD drive). This in theory should keep the interface snappy while the RAWs are on the NAS. The other weird thing is that even if I re-create 1:1 previews for, say, 100 photos I'm currently working on, they still lag ("Loading...") when I try to zoom in. This never happened before and defeats the whole purpose of creating 1:1 previews. Said differently, it's acting as if the 1:1 previews don't exist.

Ian Lyons

Community Expert

You don't appear to have mentioned which module you're having problems in. Since the 1:1 previews are only used by the Library module, then their size won't benefit the Develop module. The Camera Raw cache files used by the Develop module are only used temporarily whilst LrC loads the original raw files into memory..

> I got a Synology NAS for my photos (almost 17 TB) connected via ethernet (1 Gbps)

Other Mac users have reported a similar experience to you. Unfortunately, it's not yet clear if the issue is Synology Drive, macOS or LrC.

You could try temporarily putting a batch of 50-100 raw files on your internal SSD, then check whether you still experience the delay in loading the filles.

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