Performance quitting Lightroom, Color markings for folders, Number of photos next to folders

[Dieter Roggon]

Lightroom Version: 13.0.1 and 13.0

System: MacStudio 2023 M2 Max, 64GB, Ventura 13.6.1

-> Number of photos next to folders are no longer displayed directly (it takes about 5 minutes)

-> Color markings for folders no longer present when restarting Lightroom.

-> Quitting Lightroom takes about 2 minutes with Beachball. 

[johnrellis]

"Number of photos next to folders are no longer displayed directly (it takes about 5 minutes)"

Try deleting the Helper.lrdata folder:

a) Do Catalog Settings > General > Show to open Finder / File Explorer on the current catalog folder.
b) Exit LR.
c) In that folder, delete the folder "<catalog> Helper.lrdata".
d) Restart LR, and it will rebuild the folder.

The Helper.lrdata folder caches information about metadata, keywords, folders, collections, and other things to speed the performance of LR and it can sometimes get corrupted. In recent versions, LR has used it more heavily to improve the speed of displaying metadata, and there have been a fair number of bugs with it.

[Dieter Roggon]

The following solution worked for me:

https://helpx.adobe.com/de/creative-cloud/kb/cc-cleaner-tool-installation-problems.html

-Now Lightroom will close within 1 second

-The color markings on the folders are not lost

-Number of photos in folders are also displayed within a second

[johnrellis · Accepted solution]

I believe the Cleaner Tool may have deleted the Helper.lrdata folder.