Lightroom - do I need to reinstall

[hania]

I have an imac and forund sometinmes Lightroom or CS3 would hang. I put an extra 2G of memory in (I had 1G initially).

Do I need to reinstall Lightroom and/or CS3 to make sure it uses the extra memory efficiently or have I got my Lightroom/CS3 settings wrong (It hung again yesterday)

[Pete]

No.. You won't need to re-install it, it'll use whatever you've got in the machine.

In what way is it hanging? Are there any messages?

[hania]

I get the 'spinning beachball'. when I get fed up with waiting , I use Force Quit.

[René Damkot]

What's LR doing when you get the beachball?
What does the Activity monitor say? Is it "not responding"?

What version LR?

[griptape]

What are the other specs on your machine? RAM is great, but it would seem your bottleneck is elsewhere. Your computer is only as fast as it's slowest component.

[Halliday]

Poke around a bit. I kept having to enter the serial # for LR every day. I had messed up the permissions and the code was not being saved. I had to use the online help to figure that one out :)

[Pete]

Try the procedures listed here. I expect you need t repair your disk permissions.

http://guides.macrumors.com/Troubleshooting_Software_Problems

[hania]

What's LR doing when you get the beachball?
What does the Activity monitor say? Is it "not responding"?

What version LR?

1.4.1

seems to be worse after a friend installed Leopard - though that may just be coincidence

[hania]

What are the other specs on your machine? RAM is great, but it would seem your bottleneck is elsewhere. Your computer is only as fast as it's slowest component.

its a 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Due

3G 667 Mhz DDR2 SDRAM

[hania]

What's LR doing when you get the beachball?
What does the Activity monitor say? Is it "not responding"?

What version LR?

I'll take note as to what I am doing in Lightroom when it happens.

Its not responding in the Activity monitor