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Spinning Wheel and Fans when using Crops or Local adjustments

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Oct 18, 2024 Oct 18, 2024

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Hello,

 

First time posting here and hoping that someone can help.


For the past couple of days, my Lightroom Classic has been painfully slow to the point of losing out on two days worth of work as I cannot edit any of my images. Simply loading the application causes my Mac to go into overdrive, and attempting tasks such as 'cropping' or 'local adjustments' pushes it over the edge! (fan going and colour wheel endlessly spinning).

 

Can anyone help?!

 

For some added context:

 

- I recently updated my Mac to Sequoia 15.0.1 and have 41gb of memory

- I recently updated LRc to v14.0.1

- I store my catalogs on a SSD

 

I have tried:


- Restarting laptop

- Increasing 'Raw Camera Cache Settings' up to 20GB

- Cleaned my Mac and removed cache files 

- Reinstalling lightroom 

- Changing graphics processor to 'full acceleration'

- Downloading LRC v14.1 on a different Mac which is still on 'Ventura 13.2.1 and has 96GB Free memory

 

I'm at a lost for what to try next 😩

 

 

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LEGEND ,
Oct 18, 2024 Oct 18, 2024

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Fans start running when your computer generates a lot of heat, which is not properly dissipated. It can also cause the computer to "throttle" which means that all of your resources are not used (intentionally) and so it appears the computer is very slow. Laptops are particularly susceptible to this kind of problem.

 

Open the case, vacuum out all the dust that has accumulated and verify that all cooling elements are working (example would be some fans are not spinning). Make the sure case vents are not blocked by dust, not blocked by furniture or walls. Consider getting a cooling device.

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Thank you! I shall try this 🤞

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LEGEND ,
Oct 18, 2024 Oct 18, 2024

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Does your LrC catalog have a lot of sync (probably to the Cloud) going on?

 

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Hiya

 

Yes, I have sync on in the background. I could try turning this off - thank you.


I have also read that it could be to do with using an SSD and that I should try storing my catalog on my local drive?

 

Hoping something works soon!

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LEGEND ,
Oct 19, 2024 Oct 19, 2024

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Yes, I have sync on in the background. I could try turning this off - thank you.


I have also read that it could be to do with using an SSD and that I should try storing my catalog on my local drive?


By @davinia_9894

 

What happened with cleaning the dust out of the computer case, and making sure the vents aren't blocked, and getting a laptop cooling device?

 

Whatever your disk drives are, and wherever you store these photos and catalog files, these are not the cause of fans spinning and heat buildup. Wild goose chase.

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Oct 20, 2024 Oct 20, 2024

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I've tried both and no change as yet. 

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LEGEND ,
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 have also read that it could be to do with using an SSD and that I should try storing my catalog on my local drive?

Do you have a link to that? An article?

 

Now that just prompts me to ask if you can share a copy of your system information. Following is my SOP on that inquiry (mostly interested in Library Path):

 

Please post your System Information as Lightroom Classic (LrC) reports it. In LrC click on Help, then System Info, then Copy. Paste that information into a reply. Please present all information from first line down to and including Plug-in Info. Info after Plug-in info can be cut out as that is just so much dead space to us non-Techs and it takes up vast amounts of scroll space making the reply less readable and less likely that others will bother with your post. Also large amounts of text in a post also render the Translate function inoperable...

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System Info:

 

Lightroom Classic version: 14.0.1 [ 202410161356-30922cfc ]

License: Creative Cloud

Language setting: en-GB

Operating system: Mac OS 15

Version: 15.0.1 [24A348]

Application architecture: x64

Logical processor count: 8

Processor speed: 1.4GHz

SqLite Version: 3.36.0

Power Source: Battery, 26%

Built-in memory: 8,192.0 MB

Dedicated GPU memory used by Lightroom: 479.8MB / 1,536.0MB (31%)

Real memory available to Lightroom: 8,192.0 MB

Real memory used by Lightroom: 1,667.8 MB (20.3%)

Virtual memory used by Lightroom: 45,285.8 MB

Memory cache size: 20.5MB

Internal Camera Raw version: 17.0 [ 2043 ]

Maximum thread count used by Camera Raw: 5

Camera Raw SIMD optimization: SSE2,AVX,AVX2

Camera Raw virtual memory: 3312MB / 4095MB (80%)

Camera Raw real memory: 3652MB / 8192MB (44%)

 

Cache1: 

Final1- RAM:1,937.0MB, VRAM:0.0MB, Brew-107.ARW

NT- RAM:1,937.0MB, VRAM:0.0MB, Combined:1,937.0MB

 

Cache2: 

m:20.5MB, n:189.4MB

 

U-main: 89.0MB

 

Standard Preview Size: 2880 pixels

Displays: 1) 2880x1800

 

Graphics Processor Info: 

Metal: Intel(R) Iris(TM) Plus Graphics 645

Init State: GPU for Display supported by default with image processing and export supported in the custom mode

User Preference: GPU for Display Enabled

Enable HDR in Library: OFF

 

Application folder: /Applications/Adobe Lightroom Classic

Library Path: /Volumes/LaCie 1/LR Catalogs/Catalogs/2024/Client Catalog - 2024/Client Catalog - 2024-v13-3 (USE).lrcat

Settings Folder: /Users/davinia/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Lightroom

 

Installed Plugins: 

1) AdobeStock

2) Aperture/iPhoto Importer Plug-in

3) Flickr

4) Pixieset

 

 

Regarding SSD:

 

It was a Reddit conversation. I've looked back to acquire the link but admittedly I may have misunderstood their recommendation! 😅. It seems that that they were recommending copying files directly from the camera's SD to the internal drive to cull, edit etc for a faster workflow. 

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Oct 19, 2024 Oct 19, 2024

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Regarding SSD:

 

It was a Reddit conversation. I've looked back to acquire the link but admittedly I may have misunderstood their recommendation! It seems that that they were recommending copying files directly from the camera's SD to the internal drive to cull, edit etc for a faster workflow. 

 

Poor advice. And unrelated to your spinning fans problem. Copy photo files from the camera card to whatever drive you want, preferably the drive where the photos will reside in the long-term, the external drive. You will never notice a speed difference between photos on an external drive and photos on the internal drive. Catalog file should go on your fastest drive.

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Graphics Processor Info: 

Metal: Intel(R) Iris(TM) Plus Graphics 645

Init State: GPU for Display supported by default with image processing and export supported in the custom mode

User Preference: GPU for Display Enabled

Enable HDR in Library: OFF

What model of MAC is this?

 

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Oct 20, 2024 Oct 20, 2024

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Thank you.

 

sorry, I'm really basic with computer tech, are this instructions for what I should do? If so, thank you.

 

I am currently using the MacBook Pro 2019.

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