Quick Tips: Optimize LrC preferences for better performance

[Carissa Massongill]

Optimizing LrC preferences for better performance

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

❶ Open Lightroom Classic Preferences 

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

❷ Optimize your performance

• 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

❸ 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. 

Related links:

Lightroom Classic User Guide

Lightroom Classic GPU FAQ

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[LVBuzzy]

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

[Art M.]

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.)  

[LVBuzzy]

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!

[josephlavine]

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

[JackFrusciante]

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