Mystery: Catalog Opening Speed

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May 6, 2017
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Hi - I have a performance issue I can't figure out.

I have a catalog with 12,072 images that takes 8 minutes to open. The catalog folder is 3.52GB in size. This catalog was started in LR 4 by was updated since now I have LR CC 2015.10.

As an experiment I exported it to a new catalog with NO Previews. This preview-less catalog still takes 8 minutes to open. It's folder size is just 161MB.

I assume having no previews makes the matter of whether the original importation setting was for "minimum" preview or standard irrelevant.

(I have a third catalog with 3,327 images that opens in less than a minute!)

I am using a MacBook Pro (mid-2015) 2.5GHz i7 with 16MB RAM and 500MB SSD drive, running El Capitan.

Any insight/help would be appreciated!

Regards, TonyC

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Dear Adobe Support - the mystery continues.

Thanks, commenters, for your suggestions. After all else made a difference, I did indeed start over by making a new catalog.

Basically, I can make a new catalog (e.g. 16K images) and it takes 3: 40 minutes to open. Then I "remove" 3K worth of images from the catalog and the catalog opening time does not change. The "previews" file size is indeed smaller, so I don't understand what really determines the opening speed of a catalog.

Optimizing the catalog -- multiple times -- makes no difference!

TonyC