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franzb53937630
franzb53937630
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December 23, 2020
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Freeze of Lightroom classic and high usage of Mac process "mdworker"

  • December 23, 2020
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Hi all,

when I am editing in LR since update to LR classic V 10.1 on my iMac (late 2014, running BigSur, 32 GB memory) the process "mdworker" usage of CPU goes up to more than 90% and LRC is going extreemly slow or freezing/crashing. I checked out that "mdworker" is reading the LR catalog when this happens. I have tried an other catalog also, but it's the same. Is this problem known in the community and are there any solutions? Thanks!

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Ian Lyons
Community Expert
Ian LyonsCommunity Expert
Community Expert
December 23, 2020

You can exclude the LrC catalog in Spot Light Privacy tab of macOS System Preferences

franzb53937630
franzb53937630Author
Participant
December 23, 2020

Hi Jan,

thanks for your answer. I will try this!

franzb53937630
franzb53937630Author
Participant
December 23, 2020

Unfortunately this did not solve the problem. It seems to be a specific problem of Lightroom V 10.1! Going back to an older version means to go back to an older catalog. What data will be lost doing this? And what versions are recommended?

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