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Just updated to Big Sur and now MAJOR lag in Lightroom Perpetual 6

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June 7, 2021
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I just updated my iMac to Big Sur and instantly Lightoom is horrible. I cannot edit like this. It lags going from image to image, it lags showing slider bar changes, syncing batch changes.. EVERYTHING lags. I cannot proper edit my clients images when I can't even see the changes as I'm sliding/making changes.

Please help!!

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nickchurch

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Hi,

I have had this problem for a few months now. I bought the latest iMac, upgraded to the max, and now cannot use Lightroom for my business. Editing, especially any local adjustments like brushing lag so much it's unusable.

I have spent hours on calls wiht Adobe engineers who all do the same things - change cache value, change profiles etc etc. I am an ex-software architect and can state that they have no clue what they are doing! It's absolutely infuriating.

Adobe also claim that there is no issue!!!

My MacBook Pro from 2017 is absoltely fine, so it's related to iMac.

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Jao vdL

Community Expert

@nickchurch are you using Lightroom 6? It is just not compatible with the latest mac os X as it is way too old and there really is nothing you can do in that case except upgrade to Lightroom Classic (with associated cost unfortunately). If you are on Classic and are fully updated (v 10.3 came out yesterday) you should start a new thread and we can try to help you. Make sure to post exact software versions and hardware info. There is no reason why Classic on your iMac should be slow. If you call Adobe, there is approximately zero chance you will speak to an engineer. These are all just customer reps that work from scripts they call up on their screen based on your query.

nickchurch

Participating Frequently

I agree totally with you. There is NO reason why LR 'should' be slow with my iMac, but yet it's unusable. I am on LR 10.3.

Adjustment brushes lag badly... to the point that it cannot be used. I even paid £400 extra for the upgraded graphics when building my iMac which makes the whole thing a joke.

I already have two threads, unresolved, about my specific issue.

JP Hess

Inspiring

If you are a professional photographer then it seems to me that you owe it to yourself and to your clients to be the best you can be. Lightroom 6 doesn't provide neearly the arsenal that the lateest Lightroom Classic offers. You are cheating yourself and your clients by trying to stay with such obbsolete software. My opinion, and it isn't worth much.

OTOH, From what I have been reading Big Sur users seem to be having performance problems in general with Lighttroom Classic. I cannot speak from experience because I use Windows 10.

nickchurch

Participating Frequently

I am a professional photographer and I can no longer edit in Lightroom on my iMac as it takes me 5-10 times the amount of time to edit each image (on a 10-core, 128GB iMac, top-of-range graphics!). I am going to have to look at alternatives. Capture One seems to the the best option for me I think.

JP Hess

Inspiring

Whatever you do, don't uninstall expecting to reinstall it hoping to make a difference. The installer is 32-bit, and Big Sur will not run it. Lightroom 6 is at the end of its life. Use it as it is while you can.

Lightroom 6 was the last perpetual license version. Lightroom Classic is the next step, and it is subscription only.

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Jao vdL

Community Expert

Lightroom 6 is not really compatible with Big Sur. People have gotten it to work but not fully as you are discovering. If you want to stay with LR 6, only solution is to run an earlier operating system.

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Brittany5FDDAuthor

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That is quite a bummer because I paid for my application in full, but I don't really recieve the same support as the monthly paid users. Is there a newer perpetual version of Lr?

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Jao vdL

Community Expert

No there is no longer any perpetual version and LR 6 hasn't been supported for quite a while and hasn't been updated in a long time so no longer runs reliably on current operating systems. You can only get current versions of Lightroom (now called Lightroom Classic) through a subscription. Unfortunately it is extremely hard to downgrade your operating system without wiping the computer completely and it is very hard to reinstall LR 6 from scratch as you can't get any installers from Adobe anymore so only way to stay with a perpetual Lightroom version is to stay at the older operating systems and to not update anything which indeed is a problem from a security standpoint.

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