Cannot Import into Lightroom

[ThaiBear]

Re installed, Got off the GPU (3 Nvidia 1070's) , Stared a new CAT and removed all external drives and Lightroom refuses to import new files in the last couple of days.

The program will go to the "Select a source" screen and locks up.  Does not show available drives on the left..

I have plenty of RAM (128gb) and hard disk space. (24.5Tb)  My drives report no error.

Edit:  Waiting 15 min bring up a drive list.  Clicking on a drive,  (I have 7 in this computer) in another 4 min a partial drive list appears.  Basically it is too slow to use.  The program appears frozen at every operation.  Once able to fully load drive contents / folders, Selecting a folder creates another 5 min wait to load the thumbnails.

Other functions/ modules are working fine and in real time.

Cheers and Thank you for your time.

[cmgap]

Hi ThaiBear  - Where are the original files that you want to import located? If they are on a card, can you copy them (or 1 as a test) to your local drive and see if that makes a difference when you import? Try dragging that one image file into the Lightroom from the finder window.

Is your system running Windows 10?

[Jao vdL]

If you are running Windows there is some cortina or explorer function that if turned on makes opening the import panel really slow. It’s some sort of auto-indexing or suggestion service that is to blame that also slows down all other standard file dialogs on the system. I don’t run Windows anywhere so have no clue where this setting is but I remember many people with stuck import dialogues where this turned out to be the problem

[GoldingD]

What occurs if you create and work with a new catalog?

Wondering if LR is looking for those external hard drives that existed when you created that catalog. This would be a improper issue, but might give a clue.

[josephlavine]

This sounds like an issue with your drives spinning up.  Prior to importing, are your drives active or perhaps in sleep mode?

[GoldingD]

Those external hard drives, did one for some unknown reason contain the OS page file? The Temp files?

If you reconnect them, does LR then behave?