I little while back (maybe a month) I upgraded past Lightroom Classic V 13.1. This was the upgrade that required a catalog upgrade. Once that happened, I've experienced slowdowns in Lightroom Classic that has rendered the software unusable, and I have lost weeks of work. I will outline the issues and then the versions.
Macbook Pro M1 Max
OS Ventura 13.6.?
64 gigs ram
4tb ssd
1tb plus available space on ssd
max ram usage 35g for LR w/ plenty of free ram
Please note, I did restarts, reinstalls of software, etc along the way.
The problem arose when:
Upgraded from LR 13.1 to 13.3
- catalog upgrade required
- Navigating photos became useless (3-5 seconds between photos)
- Edits became very slow (3-5 seconds for UI to respond)
- Flagging and rating photos became completely useless (10+ seconds to show up)
- Moving photos between collections became useless (more than 10 seconds)
Upgraded from LR 13.1 to 13.5
- used upgraded catalog
- Only minor improvments
Upgraded Mac OS from Ventura 13.6.? to Sonoma 14.6.1
No change
Created new catalog and imported old catalog into this catalog
- editing photos begain working
- moving between photos began working
- flagging and rating photos still did not work at reasonable pace
- moving photos between collections still did not work at reasonble pace
becasue flagging, rating and moving photos into collections is integral to my workflow, I downgraded the software back to v 13.1 and used my old catalog that as working in 13.1
- this worked for the most part (see below)
- Flagging and rating was still slow (1/2 second to 1 second)
- Moving between collections seemed slow (2 seconds)
- not ideal, but I could still somewhat work)
I noticed that there was a new release to LR Classic (v 13.5.1), so I upgraded and upgraded the catalog again.
- everything is slow again w/ flagging, rating and moving collections (multiple seconds).
I'm stuck and don't know what to do. For a point of reference, I've used the software since the beginning, and my workflow has been similar for many, many years (more than 15). I have always (save for one update), been able to do things like search for unrated photos, have a collection of them, quickly rate them and have them disappear from the search. I have always been able to move photos into collections and have them instantly appear. I have not been in a position where the software has been this unusable. One possible note, I do autimatically write data to xmp. I haven't noticed a change when it's been turned off. My cloud based collections have also needed to re-sync, and this has been taking a very long time, though there are quite a few photos.
Please help. I need to get work done and this has cost me literally weeks. I"m in serious trouble, thanks!
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