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mikhailg28571905
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February 24, 2023
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Lightroom doesn't export photos on Multiple Macbook M1

  • February 24, 2023
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Hello Everyone,

 

I've been experiencing this issue since I moved to the Macbook with an M1 chip - the edit photos do not export on my laptop from the app. I have tried multiple MacBooks with the M1 chip and it seems to be the same issue.

 

Interestingly enough, my mac mini and mac studio with the same chips or better do not have a problem exporting edited photos. 

 

My current MacBooks are M1 Pro 16gb Unified ram and M1 Max 32gb Unified Ram. These are powerful machines and shouldn't have to have issues like this. My mac studio is M1 max 32gb and exports photos just fine.

 

Has anyone experienced the same issue? If so, how do I resolve it?

 

P.s. Adobe customer service sucks! I connected with someone over a live chat to resolve the issue and they disconnected in the middle of a screen-sharing session. I had to start all over with a different person and they disconnected too. That happened with 4 Adobe Customer Service Agents. Absolutely ridiculous. Get your crap together!

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JohanElzenga
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JohanElzengaCommunity Expert
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February 24, 2023

Can you explain in more detail what you do and what does (not) happen? Do you get an error message anywhere in the process?

 

-- Johan W. Elzenga
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mikhailg28571905Author
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February 24, 2023

Hi Johan,

 

I just do a simple export of photos on my laptop. The button on the right top corner. I tried exporting 1 and multiple as well as using default and custom export settings. Either the photos don't export or they take a ridiculous amount of time to do so. I just exported a batch of photos on my mac studio and the machine handled around 350 photos in under 5 or 10 minutes. My MacBook pro took over 20 minutes to export about 30/40 photos after which I canceled the process.

Jim Wilde
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Jim WildeCommunity Expert
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February 24, 2023

Obviously (or perhaps not) the images being exported first need to be available on the local system, and if they are not on the local system they will first need to be downloaded from the cloud (which obviously adds a variable amount of time). So I'd suggest trying another export from the MPB, start off with a bunch of images that are not yet stored locally (you can check that on a per image basis by looking at the bottom on the Info panel), run the export, and while doing that keep an eye of your network activity, specifically the downloads, as that might indicate a possible network issue. Time the export, then as soon as it's finished repeat the export again using the same settings and compare the timings. The second export should be noticeably faster than the first, but does it compare with the timings from your other systems?

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