it's OT 'cause it's technical but I AM editing a wedding set... and it's driving me up a wall.
Dunno if I changed some setting or something and don't remember now but for the last few days when I chose to DELETE a bunch (hundreds) of photos from my LR catalog it:
1. Takes FOREVER
2. Does a painfully slow countdown... so if I look at the folder tree on the left I can see the count going 400 ... 399... 398... 397...396 ... aaaaargh!
I seem to recall that it would kind of go quiet for a few seconds (maybe even up to 10-15 with a big delete) but then all the files would vanish and the count would reflect the deletion.
Help!
(oh... LR 2.3 running on Vindoze Vista 64 if it means anything)
.... hum... thinking about this further... I could have sworn it used to be handled as a threaded operation that would show up across the top as an operation in progress... just like when previews are built. But what do I know?
pm tony he is supposedly the lightroom king and has it whipped like a trained philly ready for the derby!
what kinda machine are you on. since I upgraded to my new machine lightroom is infinitely faster.
Doug
I've had similar problem reading metadata for a large number of files. If I choose a hundred or so at a time, it takes 10 minutes for 1500... if I let the program chew on 1500 files it take 2 hours.
I've noticed somehow if I do something like what you're saying, but then switch to another folder to view in LR, then it suddenly goes way faster deleting stuff from the directory I was in. Doesn't make sense but it works...
The machine is a Core i7 dell with beaucoup Ram... fast Samsung hard drive so I don't think it's a hardware thing but rather Lightroom being a pain in the rear.
It's not really a huge deal or anything... not something I do frequently so I could totally live with THIS headache... it just seems weird that it would take as long as it does. It's going as slow as one file per second... which is ridiculous for file deletion speed.. yeah in fact it was taking no less to delete the files than it does to generate regular size previews I think.
Lightroom does take a long time to purge images from its catalog I find.
Photo Mechanic is super fast for rating and culling, but it doesn't do any of the other things that LR does.
Samsung has made drives for many years. I don't know if they are the top rated manufacturer, but from what I recall they do have reputation for lower noise. I think the statistical failure rate is actually higher than WD and Seagate.
