Lon Nestrud
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Operating System: OS X High Sierra
Exact Lightroom Version (Help menu > System Info): Classic version 7.1
Hi all - first time caller (but long time LR user)...
So - in an effort to get both Lightroom CC (on laptop and mobile devices) and Lightroom Classic CC (on desktop computer) all synced up properly so I can use both programs, I performed the following steps:
1. Imported all my images (JPEG, Raw, sidecar files) from disk into a fresh install of Lightroom CC on my MacBook Pro - and let everything upload to the cloud. This went fairly smoothly - considering this was over 66K images.
2. Then I started up a clean install of Lightroom Classic CC on my Mac Mini and connected up with my Cloud account - and the download of images started.
This is where the issues began. LR Classic CC is taking forever to download the image files. After 4 days (and nights) of leaving it to download files, it has only synced up a bit over 6K images.
- I have a 100 Mbps Internet connection
- When it first starts up, LR appears to download the first dozen or two of images fairly quickly - then slows to a crawl. Something averaging maybe 1 image per minute or slower.
- When checking on the sync progress in the preferences dialog, it will show tens of thousands of images are "downloading" and the rest are "pending".
- When checking system performance, CPU is generally pegged - with LR using most of that. Memory usage is only maybe 30-40%.
I've quit and restarted LR Classic and also rebooted the Mac. Still the issues persist.
My suspicion is that LR Classic is allowing WAY too many download threads - saturating the system - and only allowing a few bits per file to sync before the computer gives cycles to the next thread. I would guess if there were a small number of files to sync (i.e. less than a thousand), it would work ok. But when there's thousands to download, the program has no code in place to limit the number to start downloading. Or the limit is set way too high.
Has anyone else seen this - or found a solution?
Thanks for any ideas,
Lon
Exact Lightroom Version (Help menu > System Info): Classic version 7.1
Hi all - first time caller (but long time LR user)...
So - in an effort to get both Lightroom CC (on laptop and mobile devices) and Lightroom Classic CC (on desktop computer) all synced up properly so I can use both programs, I performed the following steps:
1. Imported all my images (JPEG, Raw, sidecar files) from disk into a fresh install of Lightroom CC on my MacBook Pro - and let everything upload to the cloud. This went fairly smoothly - considering this was over 66K images.
2. Then I started up a clean install of Lightroom Classic CC on my Mac Mini and connected up with my Cloud account - and the download of images started.
This is where the issues began. LR Classic CC is taking forever to download the image files. After 4 days (and nights) of leaving it to download files, it has only synced up a bit over 6K images.
- I have a 100 Mbps Internet connection
- When it first starts up, LR appears to download the first dozen or two of images fairly quickly - then slows to a crawl. Something averaging maybe 1 image per minute or slower.
- When checking on the sync progress in the preferences dialog, it will show tens of thousands of images are "downloading" and the rest are "pending".
- When checking system performance, CPU is generally pegged - with LR using most of that. Memory usage is only maybe 30-40%.
I've quit and restarted LR Classic and also rebooted the Mac. Still the issues persist.
My suspicion is that LR Classic is allowing WAY too many download threads - saturating the system - and only allowing a few bits per file to sync before the computer gives cycles to the next thread. I would guess if there were a small number of files to sync (i.e. less than a thousand), it would work ok. But when there's thousands to download, the program has no code in place to limit the number to start downloading. Or the limit is set way too high.
Has anyone else seen this - or found a solution?
Thanks for any ideas,
Lon