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- Feb 11, 2019
- Messages
- 42
- Location
- California
- Lightroom Experience
- Power User
- Lightroom Version
- Cloud Service
- Lightroom Version Number
- 14.2
- Operating System
- macOS 15 Sequoia
My catalog has 338,000 pictures (total 5TB on disc); the catalog itself is about 5GB.
Since late last year, performance has been egregiously bad.
I have several theories:
1. Release of 14.0 with sync reengineered, and "performance" improvements.
2. Using a new camera, with larger RAW files (50MB each)
3. I crossed 300k+ photographs.
Does anyone have a sense of what the practical upper limit of catalog size and scope might be?
The performance issues are
* incredible slowness performing anything to do with synced catalogs (10s of minutes to create a new collection; essentially nothing working after checking the sync on a collection for perhaps an hour or two).
* adding 20 photos to a collection taking 20-30 minutes, or not taking at all.
* the second Import in a session blocking for hours, and importing zero photographs.
* edits (e.g. crops, lighting) that I made in LRC getting reverted for 10-30 minutes, until eventually they show up in LR, and round-trip back to LRC
* changing pick or rating taking 20 minutes or more
* syncing 10 photos taking an hour
* sync (image, not metadata) getting stuck on 3 photos that were first synced 3 years ago, and are now missing from LR altogether. Solution: remove them from LRC, wait a long time for sync to stabilize, then add them back.
These issues are not sudden, but have gradually worsened to the point of unusability over 6 months. Used to be the edit round-trip issue was a few seconds, and creating a new collection was 10-30 seconds, but now, minutes to hours.
I have optimized my catalog repeatedly, and tested catalog integrity at almost every startup. I have had two Integrity failures, which have required 10 minutes of "repair" with no adverse impacts reported or discovered.
I have a MBP with 64GB RAM and 8TB of SSD which still have 2TB free.
Since late last year, performance has been egregiously bad.
I have several theories:
1. Release of 14.0 with sync reengineered, and "performance" improvements.
2. Using a new camera, with larger RAW files (50MB each)
3. I crossed 300k+ photographs.
Does anyone have a sense of what the practical upper limit of catalog size and scope might be?
The performance issues are
* incredible slowness performing anything to do with synced catalogs (10s of minutes to create a new collection; essentially nothing working after checking the sync on a collection for perhaps an hour or two).
* adding 20 photos to a collection taking 20-30 minutes, or not taking at all.
* the second Import in a session blocking for hours, and importing zero photographs.
* edits (e.g. crops, lighting) that I made in LRC getting reverted for 10-30 minutes, until eventually they show up in LR, and round-trip back to LRC
* changing pick or rating taking 20 minutes or more
* syncing 10 photos taking an hour
* sync (image, not metadata) getting stuck on 3 photos that were first synced 3 years ago, and are now missing from LR altogether. Solution: remove them from LRC, wait a long time for sync to stabilize, then add them back.
These issues are not sudden, but have gradually worsened to the point of unusability over 6 months. Used to be the edit round-trip issue was a few seconds, and creating a new collection was 10-30 seconds, but now, minutes to hours.
I have optimized my catalog repeatedly, and tested catalog integrity at almost every startup. I have had two Integrity failures, which have required 10 minutes of "repair" with no adverse impacts reported or discovered.
I have a MBP with 64GB RAM and 8TB of SSD which still have 2TB free.
