• Welcome to the Lightroom Queen Forums! We're a friendly bunch, so please feel free to register and join in the conversation. If you're not familiar with forums, you'll find step by step instructions on how to post your first thread under Help at the bottom of the page. You're also welcome to download our free Lightroom Quick Start eBooks and explore our other FAQ resources.
  • Are you using the cloud-based Lightroom apps for iOS, Android, Windows, Mac, and Web? Then you'll love my book, Adobe Lightroom - Edit on the Go!

    You'll learn how to use the Lightroom cloud ecosystem to organize, edit and share your photos. You'll also come to understand the thought processes used by professional photographers when they're editing their own photos, so you can transform your photos quickly and easily. And better still, the eBooks are updated for every release, so it's always up to date.

Lightroom Desktop (cloud based) - too slow to edit photos efficiently

Status
Not open for further replies.
C

chrishowe

Active Member
Premium Cloud Member
Joined
Aug 24, 2008
Messages
138
Lightroom Version Number
Lightroom
Operating System
  1. Windows 10
Brushes sometimes do not appear on screen - at all or for 10-20 seconds
Grads ditto
Switching from one photo back to the previous one in the the film strip either doesn't happen at all or takes ages
Is there something wrong with my desktop PC or are Adobes servers too slow to respond (where does the "programming" happen when I am processing - on my desktop or in the cloud?)
 
Sort by date Sort by votes
Hi Chris

Processing is local, not on the cloud. Changes are synced back to the cloud, so I'd suggest check your PC (is the disk full? Need defragmenting? All those type of checks)
 
Upvote 0 Downvote
Paul McFarlane said:
Hi Chris

Processing is local, not on the cloud. Changes are synced back to the cloud, so I'd suggest check your PC (is the disk full? Need defragmenting? All those type of checks)
Click to expand...
To that I would also add: Have enough RAM? Do you have at least a quad core CPU?
 
Upvote 0 Downvote
Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-5820K CPU clocking @ 3.3Ghz; 32GB RAM; 64 bit OS x64-based processor (Chillblast Fusion)
C drive was 90% full - because LR filled it with data (the previews stored locally) -
Edit>Preferences> "available space 110Gb" - I reduced the "use photo cache equal to x% of remaining disc space" from 50% to 30% which seemed to reduce disk to 80% full - but now I see LR has taken it back up to 90%ish - I have now set "use photo cache equal to x% of remaining disc space" to 20% to see what happens next.
The C drive is "SSD" so should be no delay there?
 
Upvote 0 Downvote
Have you updated your graphics card driver from the manufacturer recently Chris?

And has it finished syncing? (Look on the cloud icon top right)
 
Upvote 0 Downvote
Yes syncing was all finished.
Updated graphics driver (not sure whether it was auto updating before or not - took a while!)
Studied the (SSD) C: drive again - now 19Gb free of 232Gb (programs 23; Windows 29; Users 110 - which leaves a mystery 46 Gb unknown??? - Users contains "Appdata" 109Gb of which Adobe is 95Gb, of which 83Gb is "Proxies (720 & 2560) which I guess to be my smart previews)
Then research - I read that for techi reasons its best not to have an SSD drive above 70% full !!! - Looks like I need a new bigger C: drive
No need for 15Gb SSD scratch disc anymore then with Lightroom Cloud?

Anyway today it seems faster mostly so maybe graphics driver update helped, so thanks for suggestion Victoria (still working my way through the 2000 pics from my 5 week Austria, Italy, Greece, North Macedonia, Albania, Montenegro, Croatia capervan trip, even though I got intop editing them on the way via the iPhone & iPad LR app)
 
Upvote 0 Downvote
chrishowe said:
Users contains "Appdata" 109Gb of which Adobe is 95Gb, of which 83Gb is "Proxies (720 & 2560) which I guess to be my smart previews)
Click to expand...
You could uncheck Preferences > Local Storage > Store a copy of all smart previews locally if it's checked, and reduce the amount of boot drive space Lightroom's allowed to use.
 
Upvote 0 Downvote
I have the slowness issue. For instance, when I click on Lens Corrections my machine takes a good 3-5 seconds to apply them.
Radeon Software Version - 19.5.2
Radeon Software Edition - Adrenalin 2019
Graphics Chipset - Radeon RX 580 Series
Memory Size - 8192 MB
Memory Type - GDDR5
Core Clock - 1366 MHz
Windows Version - Windows 10 (64 bit)
System Memory - 32 GB
CPU Type - AMD Ryzen 3 1200 Quad-Core Processor
 
Upvote 0 Downvote
Is the GPU preference enabled or disabled for you inkjunkie? And what resolution monitor?
 
Upvote 0 Downvote
Which version are you using inkjunkie? This thread covers the newer cloud-based app with the turquoise border, but your profile says you're using LR6.
 
Upvote 0 Downvote
Great, to go Preferences (under the Edit menu on Windows or Lightroom menu on Mac) and then the General tab down the left, then toggle the Use Graphics Processor checkbox and see if it helps or hinders.

Then for the screen resolution, go to Help menu > System Info and copy the contents for us.
 
Upvote 0 Downvote
Status
Not open for further replies.
Back
Top