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I updated to Lightroom Classic 13.3 when it became available and notice an annoying problem. First, I have a fairly large catelogue (3.635 GB) with well over 250,000 images. When working on 13.3 everyonce in a while I'll notice it seems to be hung. I check the task manager and the drive containing the catalogue is at 100% and stays there for about a minute then goes back to normal and is usable again. This happened about every ten minutes when I was working on photos last night and was very annoying. It also happened while importing once.
My system is a Dell XPS-8500 with an older i7 quad core hyperthreaded processor (8 processors), 32 GB of memory running Windows 10 (up to date on patches). The photos are on external USB 3 drives and the catalog is on a 256 GB SSD drive on the motherboard (not the system drive).
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can you post your /Preferences/Performance/ info?
An, the hard drive your catalog is on, How much free space in %. Looking for better than 20%, some say 25%
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The problem, it turns out, was the SSD the catalog was on, died. The catalog was the only thing on the drive (a 256 GB SSD drive on the motherboard). I backed up regularly and restored from the most recent backup to another drive and I'm back in business again. I believe the intermitant hanging was a symptom of the drive going south. Yesterday, the system hung and now it doesn't see the drive any more. It's an old drive on a old high powered system and I need to migrate to a new Desktop that I bought.
Backups are critical!