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Where to start? I’ve not done anything significant (that I’m aware of) to my stand alone 6.0 copy. My system is stable (other than Ps also freezing on me - another story). This is all taking place on the latest, fully loaded 27” iMac (MAX RAM. SSD, etc.) running 10.11.6. The system is stable for all applications except Adobe’s pre CC apps, and M$ Office 2011 where Word goes walk about on occasion. (I also run some other specialized quite complex analysis programs for distant clients. No problems.) About to go to 10.12.3 as it finally seems stable.
First even with very fast cards (Lexar 32GB 1033x, Sandisk 64GB 160mps) and an USB3 reader, downloads have become tortuously slow. Even worse, waiting for Lr preview (predownload) default thumbnail rendering is ridiculous as in sometimes I just need to go do something else for quite a while and “come back tomorrow when we’re open.” The Lr preview size is set to default/low rez which seems to be larger than other options but I didn’t test that.
I ran tests on two cards (64 and 32) as follows. Repeated 4x per card. Format in camera. (1Dx with 24-70mm f/2.8L vII) Fired four bursts (all RAW) for about 60 pix. Opened Lr hit import and timed preview population. Times varied between 1’ 28” and 1’ 44” averaging ≈ 1’ 34”. The time to preview was slightly faster on the 32GB than the 64GB which is to be expected. It averaged 1’ 10”.
Average time to import said images averaged 1’ 20” for the 64GB and 1’ 02” for the 32GB. Timing started by hitting the Import button at the same moment as a cell phone timer. Stop time was when Lr beeped and the progress bar disappeared. Note that though all images were visible it took as much as another 2-3 minutes for all of the previews to be completed. What is particularly odd is that population of the grid view wasn’t linear, i.e., didn’t start at top level and proceed row by level, but appeared in various places with varying numbers of images popping up at the same time.
I did’nt do such tests before now as I had found the pre-download preview even of large file numbers to be fairly quick. Now it’s a walk away muttering while looking for a beer
Beyond this Lr has grown increasingly slow at simply opening and closing. Lr is set to all defaults. No presets, single writes to a given place in a hierarchy on a pair of RAID 0 6G SSDs. Trim enabled. Both tested frequently. No degradation according to disk tools. (Note: CameraRaw - which I don’t use - has a 20GB cache which is the default.)
Given that I will often come home from a double basket ball game with 600-800 clicks, one can see (or see that one can’t see ) the issues here. Things have clearly slowed down.
One step I’ve taken is to make sure that each game is recorded to a separate card (giving up back-up protection).
So does anyone have any brilliant thoughts on this? At this point I can only wonder if I need to do a total wipe of Lr and do a new install. (In the OS X world apps like AppCleaner delete not only the application but every configuration, swap space, pref, etc., file.
I could delete Lr then reinstall after the upgrade to 10.12.3, but that leaves too many unanswered variables, so I am baffled.
Oh, one other niggling tidbit. I emptied the trash (about 1300 files). Restarted Lr and optimized the catalog again. (It’s set to once a week and had be optimized before the above testing.) I only did one time test but there was a maybe 5% improvement in times on the 64GB card.
I’m aware of the concept of the “ghost in the machine,” but this is a bit over the top. I’m not into conspiracies, but Adobe update continually demands access to my machine - normally denied - allowed once a day. Could there, would there, maybe?? I’m being herded over the CC cliff? Naw, no way, Adobe wouldn’t do that?
Ideas?
Robert
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