Optimizing Lightroom Catalog at 12+ hours

[iso62]

Hello,

I have Lightroom Classic and a subscriber. I'm optimizing my catalog, it's currently at 12+ hours and still going. The last time I successfully optimized was Aug and took ~1 hour.

My system:

Catalina 10.15

Macbook Pro 

2.9 GHZ 6-core i9

32 GB 

Radeon Pro Vega 20 4GB

Intel UHD Graphics 630 1536 MB 

4TB hard drive 

The processors are active between 77% - 180%

Lightroom Classic is using only 79.6 GB of memory

Swap is 33.75 GB of 35 GB with no page swapping

System pressure at 35%

My concern is the optimization is hung and thrashing without making any progress.

Is there something i can do or do i need to wait it out?

Regards,

DS

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[Sahil.Chawla]

Hi There,

That does not sound good, let's make it right.

As the catalog is stuck on optimizing process, could you please let us know the version of Lighrtroom you're working with?

You may try updating it to version 8.4.1 and see if it helps.

Regards,
Sahil

[iso62]

Any solutions?? Eagerly awaiting your reply.

[GoldingD]

Where is your catalog located on?

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[iso62]

Hello,

I'm using 8.4.1 and the cat resides on my 4tb internal with 1.27tb free.

DS

[iso62]

Here is the contents of the directory where my lrcat resides. I have not had any problems with my cat and it's quite robust....until two days ago when i decided to optimize 😞

Catalog directory

[GoldingD]

hmmm

What's up with all that old temporary import data? Having crashes?

https://www.lightroomqueen.com/community/threads/temporary-import-data-db-is-what-exactly.19734/

I assume that your current catalog is "Harlem Masters", and that it is open. If when you can, close lightroom, do most of those go away?

[iso62]

Had one yesterday.

[GoldingD]

note, was having ipad battery issues, had to finish previous reply late.

[GoldingD]

A casual observation, probably not related to your issue. You appear to be storing your a Lightroom settings with the catalog. Or did at one time. If you have just one catalog, probably not an issue. But not normal practice.

[iso62]

Yep, one huge catalog and i store it there.

[GoldingD]

A more important casual observance. Also not the cause of your issue. A folder called a Backups. Is that where you are keeping your catalog backups?

Bad bad bad, if this hard drive goes Kaput, your catalog AND your backup of the catalog go Kaput.

[GoldingD]

You may want to use Disk Utility to check this hard drives health.

[iso62]

[Rob_Cullen]

My "casual observation" also, if I may-

658 GB of Smart Previews!  Are your original camera files not always connected to need these?

[iso62]

SSD drive is doing fine. This laptop was purchased this year.  

[GoldingD]

Now following is just for curiosity, that Temp-Files folder , just some folder of yours having nothing to do with the lightroom program

[iso62]

LOL yes 658.89 GB of Smart Previews. It's needed. I have 18TB of images on Drobos. Yes 18 TB and I want to have access to each and every image when I am not connected to the Hard Drives. 

I have been with LR since the beginning and cursed it because I could'nt do what Smart Previews does currently. All I wanted was to be able to curate and edit remotely. Smart Previews did that for me. Thank you Adobe!!!

Also, at the end of last year I had over 1 Million images in my one catalog and it purred away.  I downsized my catalog this year after getting my new Mac and im currently north of 792K. 

I say this because I have used my one catalog for years with optimization under an hour taking place once a month. I believe this time was related to a very large clean up of collections not completing....I abruptly powered down my laptop (long story) during the operation. 

Thanks,

DS

[iso62]

I moved all of the temp LR files into that TEMP folder. I think LR is smart enought not to read or be bothered by it.

[GoldingD]

Double check the hard drive your catalog is on for user rights. Sone Catalina early implementer found that the OS upgrade modified privildges.Or perhaps Lightroom's rights to access the hard drive.

see next to last comment in:

 https://community.adobe.com/t5/Lightroom-Classic/Files-couldn-t-be-found-message-when-exporting/m-p/...

[iso62]

Thanks David

I added LR to Privacy. Stopped restarted app. This time I see it syncing to cloud. Which is new from the countless restarts and optimization.

Started optimization and fingers crossed....

[iso62]

No Luck. Had to do a forced quit.

Started again and this time syncing says 42 (might not be revelant.)

Also, I opened another catalog and it optimized in a few minutes.

DS

[GoldingD]

Syncing to the cloud? Does the catalog have some odd sync scheduled/running that is not complete? 

[iso62]

no odd sync. It changed upon second restart.