Lightroom Classic Catalog eats up memory until it is forced to quit

Report · Feb 08, 2025

Hello,

my primary lightroom Catalog keeps eating up Memory when importing photos (even just less then ten from a SD card, no video included) or synchronizing a folder. It also sometimes ends up saying in the catalog window on the top left corner: Current Import 3 photos or even 40 but fails to show them. Most the times it just stays on zero though and waits to be force quit or crashes. The catalog is regularly backed-up and optimized and I use a Macbook pro 16 inch M3 with 18gb of memory and 1tb of internal stoage.

Report · Feb 10, 2025

Hey, @PhilippSalvador. Welcome to the Lightroom Community. I'll need more info to help you figure this out.

Please share the system info from Lightroom Help > System info > Copy & paste into a text document > upload & attach here.

Does this happen when you copy images to a specific location? Is the catalog stored on an internal or external drive?

As a quick test, create a new catalog (File menu > Create New Catalog) placed in the Internal drive & import 30-40 images, and check how it goes.

Thanks!
Sameer K

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