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Quick Tips: Optimize LrC preferences for better performance

Adobe Employee ,
Nov 24, 2021 Nov 24, 2021

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Optimizing LrC preferences for better performance

 

Did you know you can easily optimize your Lightroom Classic preferences for better performance? 

 

Open Lightroom Classic Preferences 

  • macOS: Lightroom Classic > Preferences > Performance
  • Windows: Edit > Prefereces > Performance

 

Optimize your performance

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  • Increase the Camera Raw Cache to 10GB
  • Enable/check the option to Use Smart Previews instead of Orignals for image editing
  • Optimiz your catalog if it has been a while. 
  • Disable/Uncheck the option to Generate Previews in parallel

 

 

Relaunch Lightroom Classic

Once your catalog has completed the optimization proccess, relaunch Lightroom Classic for changes to take effect. 

 

 

For more ways to optimize your Lightroom Classic catalog check out these helpful steps in our Optimize performance article. 

 
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Dec 18, 2021 Dec 18, 2021

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This is really helpful. Really good info.

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Dec 25, 2021 Dec 25, 2021

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Thanks it's really helpful. Really good information.

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Dec 31, 2021 Dec 31, 2021

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Explorer ,
Jan 13, 2022 Jan 13, 2022

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The tips for speeding up LRC really worked for me. Thank you for the good information!

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Jan 19, 2022 Jan 19, 2022

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LR Classic regularly uses 10.35 gig of memory on my M1 Mac.  I don't think the problem started with 11.1 though, not sure. The catalog is not large at all, and I'm editing a group of 12 RAW photographs.  See snapshot of Utility Monitor.  Is this memory leaks or considered normal?  I'm up to date on the OS, evverything really.   Thank you.  (PS: I was going to start a new thread on this but can't find the "new thread" command alas.)  

 

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Jan 19, 2022 Jan 19, 2022

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Hi Art M.

LRC shouldn't be using 10.35G of memory! LRC (ver 11.1) uses 1.2 G of memory on  my system. Even Photoshop uses less than 5G. I don't know what the problem is, but that sounds like too much memory usage to me. Good Luck!

 

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Aug 11, 2022 Aug 11, 2022

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How much memory LR uses is related to how much you have available (as well as your settings, particulary in PS preferences). I have 128GB in my new (nearly loaded) Mac Studio, and LR and PS commonly use 50-60GB each, and I've seen LR get up to 95GB prior to freezing. Apple's powerful new machines are rending bare Adobe's poor coding and ongoing bugs that have plagued the programs for YEARS. Adobe seems not to be able to (permanently) get rid of the GPU memory leaks in LR, while adressing features and bugs that do not relate directly to the performance degradations that we've all be suffering through for years. Importing/exporting may have gotten a bit faster with the 'new' (cough!) Apple Silicon versions, but little else has changed; waiting up to 10 seconds to render at 1:1 is just plain silly, and affects my day-today massively. 

 

If only there were an alternative that was a true contender to replace LR...

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Jan 24, 2022 Jan 24, 2022

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Excellent information.

My only question or concern is regarding standard-size previews. The heading says to keep them "as small as possible," but then says stay closest to the screen resolution. With so many 4k, 5k, and 6k monitors, this equates to rather large preview files and thus large Lightroom Catalogs, which can slow down a system.

Advice?

Warmly/j

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Jan 31, 2022 Jan 31, 2022

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How disable/uncheck the option to "Generate Previews in parallel" is expected to speed up operations?

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Sep 16, 2022 Sep 16, 2022

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These images do not match what is on my screen. I go to prefences and it is just graphic card information.

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Sep 16, 2022 Sep 16, 2022

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If you are seeing this-

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Then you are using Lightroom (-Desktop. The 'Cloud' Version).

The images given for "Quick Tips", and the hints, are for Lightroom-Classic.

 

Regards. My System: Lightroom-Classic 14.0, Photoshop 26.0, ACR 17.0, Lightroom 8.0, Lr-iOS 9.0.1, Bridge 15.0.0, Windows-11.

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