Advice on folders and collections... related to performance

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theMusicMan

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Hi All

My version of Lightroom 2 is on times, very slow - in fact, it is sometimes painfully/excrutiatingly slow in accomplishing some of what I consider to be the very easiest of tasks.

For example, this morning I have been browsing through my 'birds' folder - which presently contains 898 images - looking for ones to trash (sure, I keep waaaaaay too many!!). So, I set the view flag to show 'Unflagged Photos Only', and use the 'x' key to mark the ones I am not fond of - in readiness for deletion later. The thing is, sometimes, after pressing the 'x' key, it takes up to 4 or 5 seconds for LR to move on to and display the next image. Even if I press the right arrow to move to the next image, it takes several seconds before showing the image on screen.

Is this possibly related to the fact that I have many images in this folder...? Is there an optimum number of images I should have in a folder...?

Does anyone have any idea why this is the case and why LR2 is so slow at this task?
 
MM, I think it's fair to say the bulk of LR2 users are experiencing similar problems. I wouldn't think that 9'' images in a single folder is a huge problem. A common theme is that there seems to be some 'unnecessary' rendering going on, which is dragging down performance. Not for everybody, and not all the time, but .....

Are you browsing in Grid, or Loupe views, or perhaps the Develop Module?
I'd suggest sticking with Grid or Loupe views for this task.

What's the state of your preview renderings? Have you pre-rendered the standard or 1:1 previews for the images you're currently working with?
 
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