Lightroom: Library Upgrade in Progress..... FOREVER

hey all,
Well i just installed lightroom, and started it up, it asked me to let it update the library... i said yes, it said the program may appear frozen and it may take "several minutes" well the screen it was on went white, and after an hour it STILL was white, so i went ahead and closed it, and tried again, and im getting the same thing, anyone have any idea whats wrong?

Leave it (is there disc activity? If so leave it, if not, close it down and restart

EOSAddict wrote in post #2791221
Leave it (is there disc activity? If so leave it, if not, close it down and restart

task manager SAYS its not responding (although the program warned about this) but it IS using up 40% of my CPU and a quarter gig of ram, so as long as the cpu is still active because of it ill let it run. your right, i was too lazy to go check that the first time.... still a "few minutes" and an hour is a big difference.

I didnt update my library as I never imported my whole stock, I imported from my Elements catalogue... that took hours and 5 crashes !

EOSAddict wrote in post #2791241
I didnt update my library as I never imported my whole stock, I imported from my Elements catalogue... that took hours and 5 crashes !

ENCOURAGING!

Billginthekeys wrote in post #2791265
ENCOURAGING!

Hehe! I was going to install LR this weekend and play around a bit but I decided to buy a new HD instead so that will be my project for the weekend. I think I will let Adobe iron out the bugs before I buy LR.

Mike,

Having gone thru the pain of the install and setup and moved the Catalog from its default t location I can say its pretty good now!

it froze once on me while first updating, but now I have 20k photos in there and 0 issues.

EOSAddict wrote in post #2791241
I didnt update my library as I never imported my whole stock, I imported from my Elements catalogue... that took hours and 5 crashes !

Actually this is a concern of mine. If I have 1000 pictures, adobe software seems to need about 3GB of memory to work with it. I loaded up 300 pictures in bridge and I though I wouldn't be able to ever use my computer again. It took forever.

Is lightroom the same way?

I keep my imports to around 600 at a time for RAW files and it doesn't take that long on my 3 year old Pentium HT rig with 1 gig of RAM.

Tsmith wrote in post #2791844
I keep my imports to around 600 at a time for RAW files and it doesn't take that long on my 3 year old Pentium HT rig with 1 gig of RAM.

We are talking lightroom, not bridge or CS2, right?

Billginthekeys wrote in post #2791212
hey all,
Well i just installed lightroom, and started it up, it asked me to let it update the library... i said yes, it said the program may appear frozen and it may take "several minutes" well the screen it was on went white, and after an hour it STILL was white, so i went ahead and closed it, and tried again, and im getting the same thing, anyone have any idea whats wrong?

I would suggest updating your library shoot by shoot, as you find the need to look at old pics and upload new ones. You probably already had an old method of sorting through and finding the pics you need, therefore, you have to run parallel for a bit, but it is better than wasting all the time waiting for your machine to crunch the library.

This is what I do and it has worked nicely.

hmm, I've done many shoots over 1k and a few over 2k and while it took a while, it never froze up. And I only have a modest system, 2gb ram, p4 3.0.

coreypolis wrote in post #2791909
hmm, I've done many shoots over 1k and a few over 2k and while it took a while, it never froze up. And I only have a modest system, 2gb ram, p4 3.0.

Ha! Modest! 2gb ram, p4 3.0 - You are modest........

I have 1gb, I guess that's the problem. When it was slow the bridge and PS where using over 800mb of memory.

davidfig wrote in post #2791882
We are talking lightroom, not bridge or CS2, right?

Correct and I guess I should say like EOS about not updating the Library but just importing selected folders individually.