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Jetfighter82
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January 27, 2022
質問

Lightroom Desktop takes many minutes to switch to All Photos/People

  • January 27, 2022
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I'm having a really horrible time with Lightroom at the minute, after a year or two of it functioning ok for me. (Prior to that, it was very slow and I had multiple support tickets in.)

 

It is just too painfully slow to use at the moment and, now that I've sold my DSLR camera and no longer shoot in raw or have need for any sort of advanced editing, I am seriously considering cancelling my subscription and moving to Google Photos.

 

I have just tried to switch from All Photos view (which took 3 full minutes to load) to People view, which took 7 full minutes to load.

 

My computer is fast, but Lightroom is slow. I don't know if it's the latest update, but I am just getting the blue spinning wheel of doom when navigating to All Photos or People view. I've rebooted multiple times, I am fully synced, I have run CleanMyMac and freed up RAM... no luck whatsoever.

 

I am using...

 

Lightroom version: 5.1 x64 [ 20211204-1710-0e71941 ] (Dec 4 2021)

macOS Monterey 12.0.1

 

I love Lightroom, I've invested a lot in it over the years (online learning, buying Lightroom Queen's books, using the Lightroom taxonomy/people recognition etc.) but I worry my time with Lightroom is up. 😞

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Jao vdLCommunity Expert
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January 30, 2022

What happens when you disconnect the external SSD drive? I think the problem might be your local image storage being reindexed constantly and perhaps there is an access issue to this drive (how is it formatted? - hopefully APFS and not some windows file system?). I find Lightroom Cloudy to work best when you don't have this and to rely on its automatic caching from the cloud so to use all default settings.

J
Jetfighter82作成者
Participating Frequently
January 30, 2022
I haven’t tried removing the external SSD actually. I usually have it
connected at all times when using Lightroom. I can certainly try it without.

Yes it’s formatted using APFS and I actually reformatted it a week ago to
check if that was the issue.
J
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Jao vdLCommunity Expert
Community Expert
January 30, 2022

No clue whether this is the problem but worth trying. When the drive is disconnected, it should behave as if you don't have the option selected to have local copies of everything I believe. If access to these local images is somehow problematic and causes the hangups it would eliminate that issue.

Victoria Bampton LR Queen
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Victoria Bampton LR QueenCommunity Expert
Community Expert
January 30, 2022

How many photos in the cloud? Has it fully synced?

Victoria - The Lightroom Queen
J
Jetfighter82作成者
Participating Frequently
January 30, 2022
147,000 at the moment (was 156,000 but following your book Victoria and
doing your workflow method to purge!) - fully synced to the cloud.

Last night I’d been working on my photos for maybe 45 minutes with no
issues. Then all of a sudden Lightroom started running incredibly slowly
again. Everything took ages to load. The fan in my MacBook was whirring
loudly and it was getting very hot.

No other apps were running at the time and nothing obviously changed on my
computer at the point where it went from running normally to running
slowly.
Victoria Bampton LR Queen
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Victoria Bampton LR QueenCommunity Expert
Community Expert
January 30, 2022

Oh so it goes reasonable speed some of the time but not others? Or it's always painful and that just got loads worse? That could be a good clue.

Victoria - The Lightroom Queen
Rikk Flohr_Photography
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Rikk Flohr_PhotographyCommunity Manager
January 28, 2022

Thank you for the information and the software versions.

 

If you restart your Mac and allow it to sit idle for 5 minutes how much free space is showing on your hard drive?

Rikk Flohr: Adobe Photography Org
J
Jetfighter82作成者
Participating Frequently
January 28, 2022

Thanks for replying, Rikk. I have taken a screenshot for you of both my HD (which contains my Lightroom catalog) and my SSD which I use for Lightroom local storage.

 

Rikk Flohr_Photography
Community Manager
Rikk Flohr_PhotographyCommunity Manager
January 28, 2022

Thanks for that. It rules out the main suspected culprit: Low drive space. 

 

Let's go step by step. The next item is to reset preferences: 

 

This procedure works for both Lightroom Classic and Lightroom Desktop.

If you are using Lightroom Desktop it can change the location of your local storage. Please review this setting after resetting preferences. 

 

Reset Procedure:

1. Close Lightroom.

2. Hold down [Alt/Opt]+[Shift] while restarting Lightroom.

3. Overwrite the Preferences when prompted by the dialog.

4. Close Lightroom.

5. Restart Lightroom.

Rikk Flohr: Adobe Photography Org
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