OT: Culling weirdness in LR2

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p.1 #1 · OT: Culling weirdness in LR2

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)

Nov 22, 2009 at 03:42 PM

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p.1 #2 · OT: Culling weirdness in LR2

.... 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?

Nov 22, 2009 at 03:46 PM

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p.1 #3 · OT: Culling weirdness in LR2

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

Nov 22, 2009 at 03:59 PM

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p.1 #4 · OT: Culling weirdness in LR2

I've seen this happen before. What it does for me is start off quickly, then get slower and slower as the number of images deleted goes up.

Restarting lightroom and optimizing the library should clear this up.

Nov 22, 2009 at 05:34 PM

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p.1 #5 · OT: Culling weirdness in LR2

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.

Nov 22, 2009 at 05:41 PM

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p.1 #6 · OT: Culling weirdness in LR2

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...

Nov 23, 2009 at 01:15 AM

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p.1 #7 · OT: Culling weirdness in LR2

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.

Nov 23, 2009 at 01:21 AM

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p.1 #8 · OT: Culling weirdness in LR2

Kurtis...

that actually would make sense if the stupid UI is constantly refreshing it's contents. I'll have to try it.

Nov 23, 2009 at 01:21 AM

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p.1 #9 · OT: Culling weirdness in LR2

cough cough ..... PHOTO MECHANIC ..... cough cough

never ever a single problem in 4 years of using it, super duper fast too.

Nov 23, 2009 at 01:58 AM

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p.1 #10 · OT: Culling weirdness in LR2

N-Lisy ... why not upgrade. My LR2.3 would be a little slow at times.
at least use LR2.5.

OT --- who makes samsung hard drive? did not know they where in the business....

Nov 23, 2009 at 02:07 AM

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p.1 #11 · OT: Culling weirdness in LR2

Ziffl3 wrote:
N-Lisy ... why not upgrade. My LR2.3 would be a little slow at times.
at least use LR2.5.

OT --- who makes samsung hard drive? did not know they where in the business....

Didn't realize I'd missed upgrades... I'll do that and see if it helps

Samsung Spinpoint F1 1TB HD has been one of the best rated 1TB drives for a couple of years now. Not sure who makes them... maybe them maybe not

Nov 23, 2009 at 02:15 AM

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p.1 #12 · OT: Culling weirdness in LR2

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.

Nov 23, 2009 at 02:35 AM


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