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Map Module Crashing LrC

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Ian Consterdine

Ian Consterdine

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Lightroom Classic 10.1
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  1. macOS 11 Big Sur
Whenever I start LrC at the moment it seems to take a few minutes to warm up, so much so that I'm opening it well before I need to use it.

But one thing that is bugging me is if I try to open Maps, LrC Crashes. Then when I re-open it, Maps works fine. Is it me or is my 2 1/2 year old MacBook Pro playing silly beggars?

I have to use Maps on part of my work as the photos need to be Geo-Tagged for the insurance companies who are receiving the images.
 
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I just tested my laptop which is running Big Sur and Map is behaving itself for me. Is it always on the same collection or folder when you try to switch?
 
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Victoria Bampton said:
I just tested my laptop which is running Big Sur and Map is behaving itself for me. Is it always on the same collection or folder when you try to switch?
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Its with the same collection. It's usually after I open LrC and need to Geotag images, that I've just imported.
One I restart LrC it behaves. Although its does seem to spend a lot of time 'thinking' before I can use it.
 
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Are there a lot of photos in that collection? And is it doing anything else at the same time, like building previews?
 
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The collection is just over half a million images. I have all my images spread across a number of HDD drives which are only accessed when needed, and all that are kept on my laptop is that day's work which is then moved to a HDD as soon as practical to do so.
I may wait for it to build previews next time I need to use maps see if that makes a difference.
One way round I've found is to open Lightroom and leave it in the background until its needed. The problem seems to occur if I initially open it and try to start work straight away. If it's been running for a while then it works normally.
 
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Half a million in the catalog? Or in the folder/collection that's selected when you switch to the map module? Half a million photos is a lot to try to place on the map.
 
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Victoria Bampton said:
Half a million in the catalog? Or in the folder/collection that's selected when you switch to the map module? Half a million photos is a lot to try to place on the map.
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Oops! My Catalog is half a million, its usually when I highlight a folder (around 250 images) to place on the map.

However, I have now found a work around. I open LrC in Library, and then open Maps, which opens as normal, flip back to Library and import my images.
I then reopen Maps, and highlight the images I want to tag, and it works.

I was highlighting them before opening maps, which appears to be the cause of the crash.

Sorry for the delay in replying, but I've had rather a busy couple of weeks - considering the UK is in Lockdown, there appears to have been an upsurge in cars crashing!
 
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People are driving like lunatics here too! Well done for finding a solution.
 
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