Certain collections in the library slowing down in Lightroom

[Amit Teckchandani]

Hi guys,

i have been using LRC on my macnook seamlessly for the past 6 months.. suddenly since a day or two some collections of mine have started to slow down. they are not loading fast enough.. it is sudden so i guess some setting or some software needs to be fixed.. can anyone help.

Regards

Amit

[johnrellis]

Try deleting the Helper.lrdata folder:

a) Do Catalog Settings > General > Show to open Finder / File Explorer on the current catalog folder.
b) Exit LR.
c) In that folder, delete the folder "<catalog> Helper.lrdata".
d) Restart LR, and it will rebuild the folder.

The Helper.lrdata folder caches information about metadata, keywords, folders, collections, and other things to speed the performance of LR and it can sometimes get corrupted. In recent versions, LR has used it more heavily to improve the speed of displaying metadata, and there have been a fair number of bugs with it.