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Lightroom Classic Maxes Out Hard Drive

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June 14, 2025
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Lightroom Desktop has been pretty stable and fast enough for me for the past 12-15 months but during the last month Lightroom has been maxing out my main system disc - performance graph in Task Manager hits 100%, everything grinds to halt, Lightoom more often than not crashes.

Anyone know what I can do to fix (or at least diagnose) the problem

Windows 11
2TB NVMe system drive with apps and Lightroom Catalogue 1TB free space
4 TB NVME Data SSD - 2.5TB free space
1 year Old

Lightoom Classic up to date (14.3.1)
Windows up to date

Windows

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VABS45971236

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Same thing happened to me today. I went to see if I was running out of hard drive space. Nope, plenty of space. It was so bad that I thought there was maybe a memory leak in one of the programs that wasn't releasing RAM when it was done, and rebooted the whole computer. Didn't fix it. I closed Chrome while using it. Didn't fix it. I even exported a subset of photos from my catalog into a smaller catalog and it didn't fix it. There were multiple freezes, black screens and page redraws. Basically, my computer was unusable and it made me think that I suddently needed a new computer despite having a relatively new computer with an i7 and 16GB ram and 2 TB nvme SSD. It's only Lightroom, and it's only recently. The only thing that's different today than other days is I used the Lens Blur feature for the first time.

dj_paige

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@VABS45971236

this is a different problem than the one originally discussed in this thread. Please start a new thread and describe your problem, and state clearly whether you are using Lightroom or Lightroom Classic. People will be happy to help you in the new thread.

dj_paige

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What actions in LrC seem to cause this? Are other programs running during this time?

GoldingD

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Please post in a reply a screenshot of your LrC /Preferences/Performance/

Fuzzbass2000Author

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Fuzzbass2000Author

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Screenshot of latest incident

dj_paige

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How much free space is left on your system disk?

Fuzzbass2000Author

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It's in the message - 50% / 1TB free

Fuzzbass2000Author

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info: Help - System Info

can you point me to where this is so I can post a screen grab

johnrellis

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@Fuzzbass2000: "Help - System Info can you point me to where this is so I can post a screen grab"

Do the LR menu command Help > System Info and copy/paste (not a screenshot) the entire contents here so we can see exactly which versions of hardware and software LR thinks you're running and important LR options that are set.

KR Seals

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I have never seen that. My system is similar to yours, except I use hard drives for data. I use Lightroom Desktop a lot for doing photo sharing web pages. I also use a separate 2TB NVME drive solely for my Lightroom Classic catalog and previews.

Please post your system info: Help - System Info

Also, post the full task manager screen shot of when this is happening.

Ken Seals - Nikon Z 9, Z 8, 14mm-800mm. Computer Win 11 Pro, I7-14700K, 64GB, RTX3070TI. Travel machine: 2021 MacBook Pro M1 MAX 64GB. All Adobe apps.

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