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This must have been covered off many times but I have never seen a real answer/fix. LR CC is so slow - watching it create thumbnails is a bit of a joke and switching from Library to Develop can be so painfully slow. Is there an answer? I am using a 2012 Mac Mini with a quad core i7 processor and 8 gig of ram. My library is nowhere near being huge. Graphics acceleration is off as my card is not supported.

I'd like to find an answer for I do like the suite but my contract runs out this month an I am really thinking of trying to find an alternative (if there is one?). Any ideas - fix or alternatives?

Many thanks
Colin
 
Travelling Man said:
This must have been covered off many times but I have never seen a real answer/fix. LR CC is so slow - watching it create thumbnails is a bit of a joke and switching from Library to Develop can be so painfully slow. Is there an answer? I am using a 2012 Mac Mini with a quad core i7 processor and 8 gig of ram. My library is nowhere near being huge. Graphics acceleration is off as my card is not supported.

I'd like to find an answer for I do like the suite but my contract runs out this month an I am really thinking of trying to find an alternative (if there is one?). Any ideas - fix or alternatives?

Many thanks
Colin
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'Painfully slow' is subjective but it's LR and notorious for its speed issues. I have a 6 core / 12 thread Xeon, 20gb ram and a dedicated catalogue SSD and while i wouldn't call the process fast it's about bearable during imports (with 1:1 previews) which i try and set off then wander off otherwise it'd drive me up the wall!

The biggest rival and it known to be quick is Capture One, never tried it but it often gets mixed reports of people loving the switch but countered with those who just prefer the LR UI.
 
I upgraded my PC last year and saw some improvement - though it wasn't to the cutting edge - an Athlon X4, 16gb of RAM made a huge difference.

I currently have 2016's shots in one catalogue and everything else in another catalogue going back to 2005. I'm toying with just going back to a single catalogue because I have a stack of photos I will never look at unless i open my "archive"
 
I thought of splitting the catalogue but read somewhere it is not the way to go.
 
Splitting the catalogue only works if you have a seriously large one. I have a two iMacs a late 2015 and a late 2009 Quad i5. The i5 still runs Lightroom as a reasonable speed. OK previews take a short while but not forever. Are you asking LR to render 1:1 previews as that will take some time. ?

Are you running any other tasks at the same time? Have a look at Activity monitor and see if anything unexpected is running in the background, Full scan antivirus slows things down a hell of a lot. Have you tried restarting the Mac and working from there ? is that quicker
 
There's a great tip here on importing without creating any previews, then setting it going while you sift. Alternatively, you could select the ones you're actually going to work on and create 1:1 previews for just those images. The other tip in the video is to set 1:1 previews to expire.

View: https://youtu.be/EklILWH_9fI
 
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