Lightroom 5 excruciatingly slow?

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I'm trying Lightroom 5 at the moment on their 30-day free trial and am using it to organise and develop photos from my Sony A7r.

I store all my photos on an Seagate external hard drive with USB 3.0, as the SSD on my Macbook Pro 13 Retina is too small for all the RAW files I have. My computer should be way faster than required to run Lightroom 5 fast, but I find that for instance if I click - "Edit in Photoshop" or any other plugin it takes at least 20 seconds for the file to be "prepared" before it opens the file up. Again, to view images at 1:1 it takes at least 20 seconds before the image goes to actual resolution.

I know the raw files are big from the A7r (around 30mb each) but should it be this slow? It is really quite off-putting when you just want to try certain images with a plug-in to see how it might be and have to wait so long, or just to wait so long to see if you nailed focus on one image.

Can someone point out to me any reasons why this might be the case?

Thanks in advance!
 
Everything is near instant on mine. RAW files stored on a HDD and catalog stored on the SSD.
 
So I'm afraid my catalogue and previews were already on my SSD.

I've now tried putting the files I want to work on on my SSD but even then it takes at least 7 seconds or so for the 1:1 to load. Is it just the way it is?
 
Just had a look at this as I was getting fed up waiting 4 seconds for each 100% preview to render when scrolling through lots of images.

Seems that selecting image(s) in grid view and going Library>Previews>Render 1:1 previews, is the thing to do (and have a cup of tea while it does it if you have selected a lot)

You can set the discard of these previews in Edit>catalogue settings > File handling. You can also discard them manually by selecting images and Library >Previews>discard 1: previews

Once the 1:1 previews were rendered it was almost instantaneous flicking from one 100% view to the next

HTH

David
 
No problem with the speed of LR5 on my PC (Intel i7 based), and I find LR5 faster than LR4.

Dave
 
Hi Jun

Is this a new issue apor always been the case with LR5?

Try creating a new catalogue to test how quick that is and if no quicker, I'd suggest a reinstall of LR5 as it sounds as though something has become corrupted.
 
I could suspect 2 potential issues

1. You are running some tasking software. Check 'monitor' if CPU load is high or if RAM is used up. You didn't buy 4GB RAM MBP I would hope?

2. external HDD goes too sleep too qucikly. Can you hear it spin up every time you do something?

P.S. mine is not slow on mac mini i7 without the fancy SSD
 
Willid1 said:
Just had a look at this as I was getting fed up waiting 4 seconds for each 100% preview to render when scrolling through lots of images.

Seems that selecting image(s) in grid view and going Library>Previews>Render 1:1 previews, is the thing to do (and have a cup of tea while it does it if you have selected a lot)

You can set the discard of these previews in Edit>catalogue settings > File handling. You can also discard them manually by selecting images and Library >Previews>discard 1: previews

Once the 1:1 previews were rendered it was almost instantaneous flicking from one 100% view to the next

HTH

David
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Thanks all for your replies, I tried this and now the 100% view is near instant.

I'm starting to get my head around how to use LR5 now, I've actually found it to be quite a steep learning curve, and the fact that it was running so slow previously didn't exactly help me ease into using it.
 
And as I mentioned upthread, you can set those 1:1 previews to be generated when you import the images. Obviously the import will be slow, but at least that way they'll be ready when you start editing.
 
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