paulgodard
Member
- Joined
- Apr 4, 2008
- Messages
- 83
- Location
- Windhoek, Namibia
- Lightroom Experience
- Advanced
- Lightroom Version
- Classic
- Lightroom Version
- 11.3.1
- Operating System
- macOS 12 Monterey
I am on the latest version on LR 11.3.1 running on MBP 2017 2.9 Ghz quad i7 with 16 GB of RAM with Monterey 12.3 (upgraded 2 months ago).
I have quite a big catalogue of 50,000 images. The catalog is on my MacBookPro HD and the images are on an external 2TB USB 3 drive directly connected to the mac usb-c port.
A good week ago, I decided to take kind of sabatical and go through all my images... which means reorganizing the folders, moving files, changing metadata (rating), editing the images in develop module and exporting the images as PSD file (mostly from DNG) as well as exporting the metadata with LR/Tranmsporter.
It has been a nightmare. As soon as I work for a couple of hours, LR becomes EXTREMELY slow for most of the operations, especially editing (I have to wait a few sec everytime I have to move a slider) but also simply moving from one image to the next one.
What is strange is that when it is so slow, I don't see that LR is taking CPU more than 10%, sometimes more when exporting or saving metadata which normal. Not much going on there either, only mdworker is quite active at about 30%.
So I have checked the preferences... camera raw cache at 20 GB, graphic processor off, using smart previews, auto-write metadata off. I am also backing up and optimizing the catalog several times a day. I have 100 GB free space on the internal HD (20%)...
What else can I check to improve its performance?
Help would be greatly appreciate...
I have quite a big catalogue of 50,000 images. The catalog is on my MacBookPro HD and the images are on an external 2TB USB 3 drive directly connected to the mac usb-c port.
A good week ago, I decided to take kind of sabatical and go through all my images... which means reorganizing the folders, moving files, changing metadata (rating), editing the images in develop module and exporting the images as PSD file (mostly from DNG) as well as exporting the metadata with LR/Tranmsporter.
It has been a nightmare. As soon as I work for a couple of hours, LR becomes EXTREMELY slow for most of the operations, especially editing (I have to wait a few sec everytime I have to move a slider) but also simply moving from one image to the next one.
What is strange is that when it is so slow, I don't see that LR is taking CPU more than 10%, sometimes more when exporting or saving metadata which normal. Not much going on there either, only mdworker is quite active at about 30%.
So I have checked the preferences... camera raw cache at 20 GB, graphic processor off, using smart previews, auto-write metadata off. I am also backing up and optimizing the catalog several times a day. I have 100 GB free space on the internal HD (20%)...
What else can I check to improve its performance?
Help would be greatly appreciate...