lightroom very slow. Upto 5 hours to load roughly 700 Raw files

[mad_ness777]

Its sad to say that after roughly 20 years of using Adobe products i find myself searching for an alternative. I was used to buying a single user licence which turned into an annual licence and now an monthly licence for a cloud based software, As a wedding photograhper i find lightroom very slow. Upto 5 hours to load roughly 700 Raw files. Editing is just as painful. 

There is no solution to this issue, unless i spend thousands on a new pc which isnt needed to run other and sadly cheaper software. Its been a blast the last 20 odd years Adobe but i must say good bye. The apps you have built have very quickly made very modern systems seem old and very incompatible with your software. 

iv spent around $6800 on licneces to your products ober the last 20 years as a wedding photographer and sadly i cannot justify the outlay on a system thats compatible to edit that doesnt crash halfway through due to high Ram usauge. 

[yamato7]

What is the configuration of your PC?
When importing from Bridge, processing may slow down significantly if thumbnails are being created.
Browsing Bridge to a different folder may help.

[Keith Reeder]

If you're not prepared to use a PC that meets - preferably significantly exceeds - the minimum spec requirements, that's what you'll get.

So if you seriously believe you can find a serious alternative to Lr that runs well on your machine and does everything Lr does, as well as Lr, go to it. 

[Rob_Cullen]

"cloud based software"- Think about that!  The large CR3 files have to upload to the Adobe Cloud.

IMO You should be using Lightroom-Classic.

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