Lightroom 5.6-annoying to update

So I see there is an update to Lightroom so I started downloading it...............about an hour ago. And it's only halfway done. I have a pretty fast internet connection but Lightroom is always so slow to download, this time even more so than normal. How are other folk doing? Is it just me?

And also why do we have to download the whole application (at 931MB) instead of just an update package? Am I doing something wrong? Do CC members have to go through all this too?

Anyway it's the end of a hot hot humid day and this Adobe update is annoying me. That is all.

HokkaidoStu wrote in post #17067920
Do CC members have to go through all this too?

I've never really noticed any issues when I get an update. I honestly couldn't tell you how long it took to download so it must have been well under my annoyance threshold.

The first day of a update the site is always mobbed and stretched to its limits. Living in a location with the clock being 7-10 hours ahead of the US, if I catch the notification early I can get in before the crowd. This time I will wait a couple days.

Since I've been using LR, they have always done a complete program update, never a patch. I haven't noticed any particular problems with the download, but I lived the last 2 years in the Bahamas with just about the slowest "broadband" connection ever, so everything I downloaded was slow.

That said, I just start the download when I have something else to do and let it run on it's own, same as I did back in the day when I was on a dial-up provider. I spent a few early internet years on a split dial-up line which turned a 56k connection to about 30k. Almost anything is fast after that.

931MB
2 minutes and 26 seconds
;0)

Car2n wrote in post #17068088
931MB
2 minutes and 26 seconds
;0)

Now that's just showing off...............

You gotta be in Al Gore's backyard...

mine downloaded this morning at 5am cdt in less than 15 minutes... and I have an extremely crummy internet

Simple solution: don't update

Until Adobe expands Lightroom Mobile to include Android devices, I'm refusing to update from v5.4 (there's nothing in 5.5 or 5.6 that benefits me).

Does thiss update fix the export to video issue?

I'm definitely a wait and see type when it comes to software updates. I've learned from experience that it is not always wise to be an "early adopter" because beta testing prior to release doesn't catch all the bugs. The early adopters are actually the last round of beta testing according to my friends in the information management community. Give it a couple of weeks.

Heh! Funny, this old thread from 2007 popped up about updating from LR 1.0 to LR 1.1!:

https://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthre​ad.php?t=341988

Car2n wrote in post #17068088
931MB
2 minutes and 26 seconds
;0)

Just under 90 seconds, excluding post-download virus scan.

pwm2 wrote in post #17069280
Just under 90 seconds, excluding post-download virus scan.

You must get a good laugh out of our internet speeds here in the US (and what we pay for the privilege).

groundloop wrote in post #17069319
You must get a good laugh out of our internet speeds here in the US (and what we pay for the privilege).

In this special case, I'm assuming that my file didn't come from Adobe.com, but was delivered from some caching server somewhere much closer to me. There are a number of companies that specializes in such caching infrastructure to help moving high-bandwidth content much closer to the end users.

But if you happen to sit on some part of the net where there are no such caching service, then I have no problems seeing very serious download times if the requests gets forwarded all the way to a central Adobe server.

So just rest assured that for some other file content we want access to, you might have the better bandwidth while I have to wait

But it was quite funny that when I had finally created the map where I wanted the file stored, the download was already at 50%.