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Not enough memory when exporting, even though there is still memory left in system

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April 26, 2019
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Hi!

Lately i've been getting many troubles with Lightroom, but one of them is Lightroom Classic won't export all of my photos, leaving out some un-exported with the reason of "Not enough memory" even though i still have some spare memory (definitely enough). I use the current latest version of Lightroom Classic, and was able to use it without any problem, like syncing to Lightroom CC on my phone. This is the full spec of my setup:

HP Envy 13

Intel Core i7-7500U

8GB RAM

512GB SSD

Latest Windows 10 Update

I already tried re-exporting, restarting my computer, temporarily disabling ThrottleStop,closing Chrome, and optimizing the catalog. none of them resulted in a 100% exported collection, even though previously i was able to export photos without a problem, no matter how much photo i'm exporting

Any kind of help is appreciated, and thanks in advance

Cheers

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Paula Abdul

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I have been creating DJI Mini 3 pro raw sphere photos (160 megapixels tif) and it usually ends with the error message of "some export operations were not performed". Did quite layers of adjustments and I had to trouble myself to "export with lightroom adjustments" to Photoshop, then save from there.

Now I found an indirect (yet the only) way that save some time, by exporting as "original" tiff into a folder with those that failed, use Adobe Bridge to go to the folder, select all the tiff file, right click "export to" -> "custom export". Options to save are just like Photoshop (image quality showing up to 12 without options to save according to file size).

At least it can still batch save instead of manually exporting a few to PS to be resaved.

Hope this helps reduce some headaches.

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JayAFrogel

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I posted this elsewhere but I think it is of relevance here as well.

I did a quantitative test. Such a test seems to be lacking on discussion pages re LR memory needs and performance. My computer: iMac retina 5K, 27 inch, 2019, Mohave 10.14.6. LR is most up to date version of Lightroom Classic 8.3.1, Radeon Pro 580X 8Gb memory on the board. I'll get into computer memory in a moment. Working with RAW files from Nikon Z7 with typical size of 60 Mb.

1. iMac arrived with 8 Gb memory installed. Did and HDR merge in LR with three images Took about a minute. Way too long for simple operation so I did not do subsequent tests with this amount of memory.

2. Put in2 x 16 GB OWC memory chips via Amazon. Did a test require HDR AND Pano merge - 18 images total (about 60-65-Mb each) with 3 images HDR set at each of 6 positions for the Pano. Took 1m 38s for LR to create the Pano in preview mode. Took an addition 1m 44s to creat the final image - a Pano with each segment an HDR image for total of 3m 22s. Clearly much better than simple 8 Gb.

3. so I upped the ante going to 4 x 16 chips for total of 64GB. Repeated same test as in example 2. This time it took 1m 10s to generate preview in Pano mood. A modes improvement of almost 30s. But then I let it go ahead to create final image. This took an addition 36s for a total of 1 46s ABOUT TWICE AS FAST AS WITH 32Mb. Amazing.

DdeGannes

Community Expert

@Jay, you have resurrected an old thread which ended a few months ago with the original poster’s last post indicating that the issue was not resolved.

It would be interesting to learn if he was able to rectify his problem and how if he did.

He has not logged onto the forum since.

Maybe his SSD has crashed!?

Regards, Denis: iMac 27” mid-2015, macOS 11.7.10 Big Sur; 2TB SSD, 24 GB Ram, GPU 2 GB; LrC 12.5,; Lr 6.5, PS 24.7,; ACR 15.5,; (also Laptop Win 11, ver 24H2, LrC 15.0.1, PS 27.0; ) Camera Oly OM-D E-M1.

RonRon98Author

Known Participant

30gigs of storage out of 480gigs (i only have 1 partition)

i checked when Lightroom was exporting, there was still around 1.5~gigs of RAM available (not cached).

yes, i've unchecked the GPU support from around a week ago (since i felt it was running slower when it was enabled

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dj_paige

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So again, for clarification, the message was "out of memory" and not "out of disk space", is that correct?

Seems like the issue of disk space is not an issue at all if the message was "out of memory".

RonRon98Author

Known Participant

yes, the error message was "not enough memory", as stated in the discussion title

GoldingD

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Also, hard drive space, the hard drive your catalog is in, how much space (total) percentage is used?

RonRon98Author

Known Participant

There are still around 30gigs available in my system

GoldingD

Legend

What % remains? Needs to be at least 20%

And 30 Gb? small, trouble ahead.

GoldingD

Legend

On the OS side of this issue, clear your temp files out.

GoldingD

Legend

Has their been a change in the camera you use? New camera?

RonRon98Author

Known Participant

The problem persists even when i use my regular camera, or a new camera i've brought from work. so i don't think the camera would be the issue (the camera i usually use is Nikon D90, the other camera is Sony A7III)

Yes, i've cleared my temp files regularly

Ian Lyons

Community Expert

How many photos are you exporting when it fails?

Can you retry with a smaller export and report back whether doing so helped

johnrellis

Legend

Also, perhaps there are particular "poison" photos that cause the export to fail for some reason due to bugs. It's not uncommon for software to incorrectly report "no more memory" in response to bugs.

You could do divide-and-conquer -- take an export that fails, divide its photos into two halves, and export each half separately. Repeat on the half that fails until you (possibly) identify an individual poison photo that repeatedly fails by itself.

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