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Lightroom 6.5 - Very Slow Import

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June 10, 2016
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I have been running Lightroom on my iMac for years, since LR3. I updated to LR6 and El Capitan, and it has been working just fine until about LR 6.5 which showed some issues. I'm on LR 6.6 and El Capitan 10.11.5 now and it has not been resolved.

IMPORT is running EXTREMELY slow. I shoot events and it used to take about 15-20 minutes to import a full 32GB card. Now it takes an hour or more. It's also taking much longer to build previews than before.

Also, files are getting imported in random order, not based on their time stamp. So if I rename files during import the file sequencing is not in order when I sort by capture time. I've resolved to not rename during import, and after importing I sort by capture time and apply my naming conventions, so a step that used to save me time during import is now of no use.

None of my equipment or workflow has changed. I shoot with a Nikon D600 and D750, always NEF. Importing to the local HD. The rest of my computer is running fine. I am just so incredibly surprised by the giant lag time import now has. The amount of time this is now taking is excruciating.

Thoughts?

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Correct answer Pete.Green

This issue should be fixed in the CC 2015.6.1 update that went live today. Please update Lightroom to the latest version.

More info here: Lightroom CC 2015.6.1 now available

Regards

Pete

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YanniNZ

Participant

Seems like this issue is back.. updated LRcc and WHAM, slow as a dead frog to import 300 images and in random order also.

Tried copying to HDD and getting LR to import from that location, same issue, so rules out usb issues.

Geoff the kiwi

Community Expert

May be start a new thread... Lr6.5 is not relevant to the current release.

Sent from my iPhone in Uganda

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VideoTrainer

Participating Frequently

This is still occurring for me. I cannot even import a single JPEG into a new catalog after a fresh install of Lightroom.

It hangs and I need to cancel.

I'm pasting my system info below.

I then realized that I wasn't using the latest version of Lightroom so I updated to 6.7. Upgrading to 6.7 made absolutely no difference with the import issue. I'm do a very simple import of 1 JPEG. I'm Adding it to a fresh catalog (not moving or copying but those option's don't work either). The single JPEG is on my Mac's internal hard drive.

When I terminate the import because it just hangs it gives me the error message "No Photos Or Videos Were Found To Import".

Lightroom version: 6.0 [1014445]

License: Perpetual

Operating system: Mac OS 10

Version: 10.11 [6]

Application architecture: x64

Logical processor count: 4

Processor speed: 2.7 GHz

Built-in memory: 8,192.0 MB

Real memory available to Lightroom: 8,192.0 MB

Real memory used by Lightroom: 327.6 MB (3.9%)

Virtual memory used by Lightroom: 733.0 MB

Memory cache size: 0.0 MB

Maximum thread count used by Camera Raw: 2

Camera Raw SIMD optimization: SSE2,AVX,AVX2

Displays: 1) 3840x2160, 2) 2560x1600

Graphics Processor Info:

Intel(R) Iris(TM) Graphics 6100

Check OpenGL support: Passed

Vendor: Intel Inc.

Version: 4.1 INTEL-10.14.73

Renderer: Intel(R) Iris(TM) Graphics 6100

LanguageVersion: 4.10

Application folder: /Applications/Adobe Lightroom

Library Path: /Users/davestoltzfus/Pictures/Test Catalog/Test Catalog.lrcat

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

Installed Plugins:

1) Aperture/iPhoto Importer Plug-in

2) Behance

3) Canon Tether Plugin

4) Facebook

5) Flickr

6) Leica Tether Plugin

7) Nikon Tether Plugin

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AudioDeviceIOBlockSize: 512

AudioDeviceName: Built-in Output

AudioDeviceNumberOfChannels: 2

AudioDeviceSampleRate: 44100

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CoreImage: true

GL_ACCUM_ALPHA_BITS: 0

GL_ACCUM_BLUE_BITS: 0

GL_ACCUM_GREEN_BITS: 0

GL_ACCUM_RED_BITS: 0

GL_ALPHA_BITS: 8

GL_BLUE_BITS: 8

GL_DEPTH_BITS: 24

GL_GREEN_BITS: 8

GL_MAX_3D_TEXTURE_SIZE: 2048

GL_MAX_TEXTURE_SIZE: 16384

GL_MAX_TEXTURE_UNITS: 8

GL_MAX_VIEWPORT_DIMS: 16384,16384

GL_RED_BITS: 8

GL_RENDERER: Intel(R) Iris(TM) Graphics 6100

GL_SHADING_LANGUAGE_VERSION: 1.20

GL_STENCIL_BITS: 8

GL_VENDOR: Intel Inc.

GL_VERSION: 2.1 INTEL-10.14.73

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SYSTEM INFO AFTER UPGRADING TO 6.7:

Lightroom version: 6.7 [ 1090788 ]

License: Perpetual

Operating system: Mac OS 10

Version: 10.11 [6]

Application architecture: x64

Logical processor count: 4

Processor speed: 2.7 GHz

Built-in memory: 8,192.0 MB

Real memory available to Lightroom: 8,192.0 MB

Real memory used by Lightroom: 294.5 MB (3.5%)

Virtual memory used by Lightroom: 1,683.5 MB

Memory cache size: 0.0 MB

Maximum thread count used by Camera Raw: 4

Camera Raw SIMD optimization: SSE2,AVX,AVX2

Displays: 1) 3840x2160, 2) 2560x1600

Graphics Processor Info:

Intel(R) Iris(TM) Graphics 6100

Check OpenGL support: Passed

Vendor: Intel Inc.

Version: 4.1 INTEL-10.14.73

Renderer: Intel(R) Iris(TM) Graphics 6100

LanguageVersion: 4.10

Application folder: /Applications/Adobe Lightroom

Library Path: /Users/davestoltzfus/Pictures/Test Catalog/Test Catalog.lrcat

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

Installed Plugins:

1) Aperture/iPhoto Importer Plug-in

2) Canon Tether Plugin

3) Facebook

4) Flickr

5) Leica Tether Plugin

6) Nikon Tether Plugin

Config.lua flags: None

AudioDeviceIOBlockSize: 512

AudioDeviceName: Built-in Output

AudioDeviceNumberOfChannels: 2

AudioDeviceSampleRate: 44100

Build: Uninitialized

CoreImage: true

GL_ACCUM_ALPHA_BITS: 0

GL_ACCUM_BLUE_BITS: 0

GL_ACCUM_GREEN_BITS: 0

GL_ACCUM_RED_BITS: 0

GL_ALPHA_BITS: 8

GL_BLUE_BITS: 8

GL_DEPTH_BITS: 24

GL_GREEN_BITS: 8

GL_MAX_3D_TEXTURE_SIZE: 2048

GL_MAX_TEXTURE_SIZE: 16384

GL_MAX_TEXTURE_UNITS: 8

GL_MAX_VIEWPORT_DIMS: 16384,16384

GL_RED_BITS: 8

GL_RENDERER: Intel(R) Iris(TM) Graphics 6100

GL_SHADING_LANGUAGE_VERSION: 1.20

GL_STENCIL_BITS: 8

GL_VENDOR: Intel Inc.

GL_VERSION: 2.1 INTEL-10.14.73

OGLEnabled: true

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Geoff the kiwi

Community Expert

What is the path to the file??

So we can see it like this:

I am wondering of there could be a permissions error in the chain.

VideoTrainer

Participating Frequently

Geoff,

Here you go. It does the same thing no matter where the file is located and no matter what file I try it on. Internal HD, External HD.

J

Johan_Mellin

Participant

It kind of defeats the purpose of a digital assets management program if you have to split it onto multiple catalogs...

Geoff the kiwi

Community Expert

Johan_Mellin wrote:
It kind of defeats the purpose of a digital assets management program if you have to split it onto multiple catalogs...

Why would you need to do that?? I have a Master of 800k files that imports fine....

Catalog size has nothing to do with this.

VideoTrainer

Participating Frequently

This is happening for me to. I have Lightroom 6.6.1. I took 5 minutes to import 1 jpg from the internal hard drive on my mac laptop.

Excruciating.

I've been researching this like crazy for the past few days. It doesn't matter what version of Lightroom I'm using. I tried a fresh install of just the original 6.0. Then tried various upgrades until now I'm at 6.6.1 and nothing is helping.

J

Johan_Mellin

Participant

Something is just not right in the code.

I also get it to work fine after "the latest update", but then next time or some imports later I'm back at 30 min to import from card reader. Card reader to internal SSD take avbout 3 min, and even from internal SSD it takes the 30 or so minutes.

As a user since 1,2 i have already passed the crossroads in my mind, I'm tired of this

I'm a bit angry that I can't show Adobe my conumer power by not buying the product anymore as it is included with other apps I use in CC

Anyhow just waiting for the release of my new RAW developer and I'm out.

VideoTrainer

Participating Frequently

Yeah mine is not importing again either. Very frustrating.

Pete.Green

Correct answer

This issue should be fixed in the CC 2015.6.1 update that went live today. Please update Lightroom to the latest version.

More info here: Lightroom CC 2015.6.1 now available

Regards

Pete

B

Brian Stormont

Participant

I'm running Lightroom CC 2015.6.1. and am still seeing unusably slow imports. It seems the slowness started a couple updates ago.

Geoff the kiwi

Community Expert

What is your OS and where are you importing from and to where, using what connection.

1Levitator

Participant

I'm using LR 6.5 on a high-power HP workstation with enough memory, hard disk space and Win7 running on SSD. Fast. Tonight I imported some 300 images and building the standard previews was incredibly slow. Had to go away for an hour and when I came back the progress was about 5%... Then something happend and I cannot put my finger on this 100%. I happend to flip between the library view and develop view and the performance increased by a light-year. It took only (hah hah) 5 minutes to do the rest! Maybe that nudged something in the program and got it out of an endless loop or something. Try this and let the community know if this was real or just my imagination.

1Levitator

Participant

Version 2015.6.1 fixed my problem. Works like charm!

Y

yupenggu

Participating Frequently

I am on windows 7 and experiencing the EXTREMELY slow import since the June update. 460 raw files took 1.5 hr to build the 1:1 preview. And the LR is not responsive during that process.

None of my workflow has changed as well. I have a i7 5820, only 14% of the CPU is being used. Everything I do during the import with preview build takes at least 5 seconds to respond. It's painful...

dj_paige

Legend

Please read my earlier answer.

Y

yupenggu

Participating Frequently

No, it's not card or card reader. Everything is on a SSD already. It's the preview building that is painfully slow. And the UI is almost not responsive during that process.

dj_paige

Legend

Make sure it's not your card reader that is malfunctioning causing this slowness. Make sure there's nothing wrong with the camera card.

If the order is not correct, then in Lightroom change the sort order. This can be done in the Import dialog box or in the Library Module, whichever you prefer.

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