Urgent LR Issue:

So I started and export of almost 50 images, it's a proof set, so resized rather small, watermarked with text. LR has now hung at 22% and says not ressponding. If I kill LR from Task Manager, will I be able to just kick off the export again, or am I going to lose all the modifications I have made to each image thus far? I really don't feel like losing an hour+ worth of work, so I'm trying to find a solution without losing my work.

Thanks for nay fast replies, trying to get this completed in the next hour to upload to my site for the client to download first time in the monring. So I can meet my contractual deadline. I won't have the time in the morning to do it all again as I have another job starting at 10am and it's almost 4am now. i seriously cannot wait to build my new desktop PC which will smoke this current laptop out of the water.

Task Manager is showing LR using 0% of my CPU right now too..

To answer my own question it appears that yes, your edits are saved when you kill the task. I've got another export going now past 22% and up to 60%. Hoping that it didn't hang later in the process, but if so I'll just export the files that failed next go round. Hopefully helps someone else who encounters this same issue.

Maybe make smaller exports until you get your new computer.

heldGaze wrote in post #18282418
To answer my own question it appears that yes, your edits are saved when you kill the task. I've got another export going now past 22% and up to 60%. Hoping that it didn't hang later in the process, but if so I'll just export the files that failed next go round. Hopefully helps someone else who encounters this same issue.

LR always "saves" your edits. You can go back to any step along the editing process by looking at your history.

LR is constantly autosaving your work as you go along. If it hangs while you are in the middle of an edit it might lose some work but any previously processed images during the session should all be fine (unless you have a catastrophic catalog corruption).

I have seen this quite often the PC resources are getting maxed out (normally because othe programs are running at same time ) .... sometimes it shows not responding because it not acting as fast as expected and waiting a while seems to resolve the issue. On one system I found the issue was because GPU acceleration was enabled in LR preferences, disabled GPU and everything worked fine.

I have had crashes/power outage during middle of export operation - The changes you made aren't lost but the export operation is interrupted - restarting the same export you may get an error message from LR saying files already exist for the ones that have already been exported, you have option to ignore/overwrite/dupli​cate - The way this responds will depend on file renaming options you have set up in the export dialogue

When you restart the export you may find files renamed with sequence number failed after say file 5 so you may want to deselect the first five images and set rename sequence to begin at 6.

It is probably a lot easier to do with LR running in front of you than to understand the described process in words....

HTH

What was weird is that the PC resources were not maxed out. CPU was pretty much at idle speeds, you know, minus the handful of percentage used by taskman.exe and a few other background processes. LR itself was consuming no CPU cycles, showing 0%, so it wasn't doing anything, the window showed not responding and stuck at 22% of the export. So I just killed the task in Task Manager, and kicked off the export again and it completed as expected. I still don't know what caused the problem, and while my curiousity to understand all things that are happening on my systems, I am happy that it finished successfully on the second try.

Now that my client has identified his 25 selects, I'm off to hand-editing each and every photo to ensure it is the best I can do in the limited time I have to turn it around. I'll be working in a mixture of LR & PS. Then using LR to export fullsized images and resized images. Here's hoping the LR export doesn't barf again.

Thanks everyone for your feedback/experiences/i​nsight.

Oh, and do deal with any potential filenaming conflicts. Before relaunching LR, I went into the Windows Explorer and renamed the export folder Proofs-old.

I'm curious as to what results you get when you Export a lesser number of pics, I mean that with my setup it just takes seconds to export a couple images...

Yeah, if I'm exporting a whole bunch, sure there is a bit of a wait time, so maybe try exporting 2-5 or 10 and see what the timing is. And, you and others have mentioned little things that might slow things down. The only way I could suggest in troubleshooting is to knock out any complications, and then do a before-and-after run, to see whether there are noticeable slowdowns!