Exporting small LR catalog extremely slow

[JanineL]

I'm going to try outsourcing my culling for the first time and am trying to export a specific folder from one photo shoot as a catalog (including Smart Previews). It only has 1000 photos in it but it's taken 24 hours and is only about 50% finished.

My catalogs are stored on Dropbox. Is this causing the problem? I don't usually have any problems having them stored there.

Is there a better way of doing this? Would it be better to just give up, create a new catalog and import the photos from the memory card again?

[dj_paige]

Catalogs should not be stored on DropBox, and yes this could be the problem.

Catalogs should be on local or netword drives, not Cloud drives, a storing catalogs on cloud drives is a frequent cause of catalog corruption.

Importing photos again is never a good solution.

[Ian Lyons]

@dj_paige 

> Catalogs should be on local or netword drives, not Cloud drives

I suspect a typo. Catalogs should not be placed on network drive, NAS drives or Cloud drives.

[JanineL]

Thanks Ian.

[JanineL]

Thought that might be the case. Thanks. I started using Dropbox years ago when I was frequently switching between editing on a laptop and desktop and haven't had any problems. I'll look into moving it though. Thanks for the help.