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

[RonRon98]

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

[Ian Lyons]

How many photos are you exporting when it fails?

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

[John R Ellis]

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.

[RonRon98]

The problem still appears even though i tried to export only 3-5 photos (with 1-2 photos not exported). The export i just did consists of 105 photos, around 65-68 didn't get exported. The previous export i did is around 80 photos, with 30-40 photos didn't get exported.

[John R Ellis]

The problem still appears even though i tried to export only 3-5 photos (with 1-2 photos not exported).

Is it the same 1-2 photos each time?  If you select another group of 5 photos, does it always happen?  What if you export just those 1-2 photos by themselves? 

You're testing the hypothesis that one or more particular photos are "poison", causing LR to choke and produce the error message.

[Test Screen Name]

Memory is NOT the same as disk space (though, as noted, using a lot of memory will also use a lot of disk space as Windows/Mac uses swap space).  So, take a step back and look at memory NOT disk space. How much RAM is installed? And to see if it's swap space, LEAVE THE ERROR MESSAGE ON SCREEN and check the free disk space. 30 GB is not much, it's disastrously low.

[DdeGannes]

I agree with Dj-paige’s earlier post 30GB of free space 500GB drive is way to low it’s less than 10%. You should have at least 20% or more available for efficient performance of your computer.

[RonRon98]

I'll try cleaning up some files after this, haven't had the time to properly reorganize my files for months.

[RonRon98]

no, the photos that aren't exported are random, sometimes the first ones, sometimes the last ones, or a mixture of both.

thanks for replying, yes i'm aware of both memory and disk space, i've listed at the original post above. previously i thought increasing pagefile size might be the fix (i reverted to Windows default now), but the problem still persists.

no, Lightroom's memory stay at around 2gigs, and i still have around 1.5gigs of ram free while it is exporting. I'm using a notebook, as stated at the original post. i monitored the ram usage using task manager

i recently found a temporary solution, which is to export a catalog of the photo collection first, then export the photos from that exported catalog. it works (i've only tried it once). this proves that disk space isn't the problem

[GoldingD]

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

[RonRon98]

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

[GoldingD]

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

[GoldingD]

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

[RonRon98]

There are still around 30gigs available in my system

[GoldingD]

What % remains? Needs to be at least 20%

And 30 Gb? small, trouble ahead.

[AxelMatt]

Please try switch off the GPU support from the Lightroom preferences and check if that helps to fix the issue

Go to Lightroom > Preferences > Performance tab > Uncheck "Use Graphics Processor" > Restart Lightroom.

Adobe Lightroom GPU Troubleshooting and FAQ

I'm not sure that it helps but give it a try. 

[dj_paige]

RonRon98  wrote

There are still around 30gigs available in my system

Okay, stop right there, now I'm confused, we need clarification.

Why are we talking about disk space now, when the original problem was running out of memory?

[Ian Lyons]

You could try resettings the Lightroom preference file as it can occasionally cause odd behaviour. See Method 1 at How to set Lightroom Classic CC preferences

[RonRon98]

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

[dj_paige]

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".

[RonRon98]

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

[dj_paige]

And do you have any other programs open while you do this export from Lightroom?

[RonRon98]

previously i thought chrome was the culprit, but after that i restarted my notebook, so fresh, then opened Lightroom straight from a fresh boot (all my startup programs already finished loading), then tried exporting again. the same problem still occurs

[Ian Lyons]

The 'Out of Memory' message may be an indicator that the swap file rather than actual ram has exceeded the available disk space.

[dj_paige]

Lightroom uses a swap file when exporting?