Slow Lightroom Export Speed

[Evcc#2216]

Can someone tell me why it takes FOREVER to export my photos from lightroom to my desktop folder?  I have read other information from other google searches and most suggest freeing up memory on my laptop which I have done and yet the speed has not impr

[GoldingD]

Ok, first up remember most of the responses you will receive in this community site are from fellow Lightroom Classic users. Not Adobe techs. I am not an Adobe tech.

Second up, nope, my experiance is exports go swiftly.

Moving on

First inquiry.

Exactly where are you exporting to? You stated Desktop, but that can mean different things to various people. The actual desktop space on the computer, the main screen? Or desktop meaning your desktop computer?

[Evcc#2216]

Hi thanks for response
I export them to a folder in Finder using my Mac. The location is desktop.
I’m working on a Mac laptop with 250gb memory of which half is free
space. I mention this since one source said be sure your memory has at
least 20 or 25% free space or something to that effect.
Appreciate anything you can do as this is painful!
Malcolm

[GoldingD]

And yes, lots of questions instead of answers

If you are actualy exporting to your computers desktop, is the desktop included in the Folders panel in your catalog in the Library module? Not sure if that can be done, not at a computer to experiment.

[GoldingD]

And if actualy exporting to the desktop, does the export go quicker if you export to a folder instead?

Note: make sure the folder is included in your Folder panels structure. Apparently Lightroom export works better if destination is included in folder structure shown in folder panel (not sure if you can include desktop)

[GoldingD]

And final inquiry, actually a request.

Please post your system information as lightroom reports it. In lightroom click on Help, then System Info, then Copy. Paste into a reply. From first line down to just past plug-in info.

good night

[Evcc#2216]

Lightroom version: 3.1 [ 20191126-2330-434c343 ] (Nov 27 2019)
NGL Version: 1.11.0.8
Operating system: macOS
OS Version: 10.14 [6]
Application architecture: x64
Computer model: MacBookPro10,1 / Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3615QM CPU @ 2.30GHz
Logical processor count: 8
Processor speed: 2.3 GHz
Built-in memory: 8,192.0 MB
Real memory available to Lightroom: 8,192.0 MB
Real memory used by Lightroom: 657.6 MB (8.0%)
Virtual memory used by Lightroom: 8,552.0 MB
Memory cache size: 1,754.2 MB
Internal Camera Raw version: 12.1 [ 351 ]
Maximum thread count used by Camera Raw: 5
Camera Raw SIMD optimization: SSE2,AVX
Camera Raw virtual memory: 1333MB / 4095MB (32%)
Camera Raw real memory: 1335MB / 8192MB (16%)
Displays: 1) 2880x1800

Graphics Processor Info: Metal: NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M - 1024 MB
Graphics Processor Detail: loaded: Yes, supported: Yes, compute: No, init: I2_GPU2, hard: fail_black_list_gpu3, soft: not_checked, wl: No, bl: Yes
OS Media Capability: true

Application Folder: /Applications/Adobe Lightroom CC
Settings Folder: /Users/mwproudfoot/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Lightroom CC
Library Folder: /Users/mwproudfoot/Pictures/Lightroom Library.lrlibrary

[Evcc#2216]

This is what I copied from Lightroom System info screen   Hope this tells you something so you can assit me more.

thank you,

[GoldingD]

So, Lightroom, not Lightroom Classic. You acedentsly posted in the wrong community page

https://community.adobe.com/t5/lightroom/bd-p/lightroom?page=1&sort=latest_replies&filter=unresolved