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kadajawi
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August 3, 2023
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Slow import of images on Windows

  • August 3, 2023
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Importing photos is extremely slow on my system. i.e. roughly 2 photos per minute. Just the import, no conversion to DNG. The photos are sitting on a SSD that does 3 GB/s, the destination is a SSD with 7 GB/s. The CPU is a Ryzen 3900X with 12 cores and 24 threads. 48 GB RAM. Not the latest CPU, but not crap either. Lightroom Classic 12.4 and Windows 11 (also latest updates).

 

The CPU load is 4 % for Lightroom, which is basically one core running at full throttle, and that's it.

 

My catalogue resides on the same 7 GB/s SSD mentioned above. Some performance issues were solved by deactivating the real time protection of the Windows Defender virus scanner, but importing photos and converting them to DNG is extremely slow. The only thing I can imagine is the catalogue being too big... 11 GB right now.

 

Any idea what else can be done?

 

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kadajawiAuthor
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August 3, 2023

Using a relatively fresh catalogue drastically improves performance. While the CPU isn't bothered more during the import, importing happens much faster. More like hundreds of images per minute. But splitting the catalogue isn't something I want to do, if possible.

 

dj_paige
dj_paige
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August 3, 2023

Check for hardware errors or communication errors. Make sure the anti-virus is configured properly to not scan either the source folder or the destination folders.

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kadajawiAuthor
Participant
August 3, 2023

I have excluded the Lightroom folders from the destination folder and from the catalogue. But as I tried out just now, using a fresh catalogue though not included in the exceptions does much better.

Where should I look for communication errors? I doubt there are any hardware issues, as anything else, even more hardware intensive tasks, runs fast.

 

johnrellis
johnrellis
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August 3, 2023

Do File > Optimize Catalog -- does that help?

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