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Justin23043931d23j
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January 24, 2024
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Lightroom Share is getting bogged down in "Rendering" phase -- so slow, please help!

  • January 24, 2024
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I regularly share batches of 50-100 photos from Lightroom CC (iPhone 13 w/ current iOS) and I have always used "Share" to send directly to my laptop or iMac via Airdrop.  Never had this problem before but now I'm completely stopped here:

 

Just upgraded to the newest Lightroom mobile version.  Now, when I "Share" the photos, they go into "Rendering" mode and it takes FOREVER or just never finishes, and I'm talking about less than 50 images.  This just started after deleting the old version and upgrading to the new one.  I WANT THE OLD ONE BACK.

 

Why is this happening?  How to make it stop?  In the "Rendering" phase it will say, quite literally, "This may take a while" and it's not kidding.  It bogs down around image 10-12 and I get this message. 

 

Please for the love of all that is holy, help me.

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    chrisw05
    chrisw05
    Participant
    August 9, 2024

    I'm also experiencing exactly the same issue! Did you get a fix?

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    Justin23043931d23jAuthor
    Participating Frequently
    January 25, 2024

    I don't understand why you can't edit or delete posts on this forum?  I got a weird totally unhelpful ChatGPT reply to my post!  Super annoying.  Oh well, never mind that.  I just wanted to attach a pic of what I'm experiencing  -  Here I'm only trying to export 10 images, and it's bogging down on the SECOND image, and I captured this on image four.  Each image takes 10-15 seconds to "Render" - what is going on?  Please someone help me.  I've deleted and reinstalled Lightroom, and my iOS is current at the most recent update (17 I believe).  I'm in a near-total work stoppage till I can figure this out otherwise I have to abandon this ecosystem.

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      Justin23043931d23jAuthor
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      January 25, 2024

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      umlautnord
      Inspiring
      January 29, 2024

      Curious - what format are the files in the Lightroom library on the iPhone, and what format are you choosing in the Share dialog to then export via Airdrop? Also, are you using masking (particularly AI masking) or lens blur at all before sharing? Both of those are pretty resource-intensive and can take a bit to actually render.

       

      I'm actually finding in some quick testing (on both an iPhone 12 and iPad pro 11" 2nd gen) of a batch of 84 that I see the same behavior, and it gets "stuck" (goes very slowly) on an image with lens blur. If I try to export that one image, not as a batch, with the same settings... it still takes forever (original a 23MB Enhanced DNG with some edits + lens blur; no masks, exporting to JPG). It gets there in the end, but almost looks like it's stuck along the way. So I think it's potentially an individual image rendering very slowly and not the overall batch that's a problem. If you can see which image(s) it gets stuck on in your batches, I'd check the individual image and see if you similarly have an issue. And, the format/size, and if it uses lens blur or a mask.

       

      I've also tested a 1.1MB HEIC original with lens blur shared to JPG (same JPG settings) and it had no issue with that. Resolution of the image was the same, just a different format (and file size, obviously), so it may be either coming from the DNG format or the much larger file size that's the issue. But, lots of variables at play.

       

      If—as you say—this hasn't been a problem in previous updates of the mobile app, and you've been able to handle the exact same file format situation/same amount of actual editing on the photos, I might move this to file as a bug report in that forum with all the specifics. A moderator might just be able to move this thread over. If you're doing the exact same process as before that worked fine, and it's suddenly slowed horribly, that obviously seems like an unintended issue!

       

      I can't explicitly confirm if this used to go quicker or not on a previous mobile version for me... though I feel like I must have exported a DNG with lens blur at some point on a previous version of the mobile apps and not had an issue in the past?

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      Justin23043931d23jAuthor
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      January 25, 2024

      Thanks, ChatGPT

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