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RichSoansPhotos wrote in post #17361684
Got this weird Lightroom problem, every time I keep putting my card into the card reader to import photos, Lightroom keeps dismounting the drive then adding it to try import photos erratically

LR4.4 + Windows 8.1

I don't have the answer, but I'll "bump" it in case someone does!

Owhat wrote in post #17492282
How do I get LR to make my images look like this?!

And yes, the guy that took this photo only uses lightroom to edit.

You should know that it's against forum rules to post a pic that you don't "own". Delete the image and post a link instead!

This is my lightroom tip:
Catalogs, make new catalogs per month or per shoot event, as you will see Lightroom (whatever versions allow new catalog) slow down to a crawl. The reason why if you don't, is because if you have thousands per catalog, it will go through all the photos that are in that catalog and eventually come to the one you are dealing with

Bad advice and contrary to what both Adobe spokespeople and independent "gurus" say, as well as pros with catalogs of over 500,000 photos who report no slowing. And it is just not the way LR is designed to work. You can only open one catalog at a time and there are no actions that can be performed across multiple catalogs. What if I want to see all the photos of waterfalls that I've shot in the last ten years? I'm supposed to open 120 catalogs, one after another? And if I want to see all those shots together in one thumbnail grid, I do what? Make yet another catalog called Waterfalls and whenever I find some waterfall shots export them as a catalog and then import that catalog into the Waterfalls catalog? Hours of work instead of the seconds it would take to click All Photos > Keywords > Waterfalls.

If your LR is crawling, look for the reason elsewhere.

tzalman wrote in post #17599095
Bad advice and contrary to what both Adobe spokespeople and independent "gurus" say, as well as pros with catalogs of over 500,000 photos who report no slowing. And it is just not the way LR is designed to work. You can only open one catalog at a time and there are no actions that can be performed across multiple catalogs. What if I want to see all the photos of waterfalls that I've shot in the last ten years? I'm supposed to open 120 catalogs, one after another? And if I want to see all those shots together in one thumbnail grid, I do what? Make yet another catalog called Waterfalls and whenever I find some waterfall shots export them as a catalog and then import that catalog into the Waterfalls catalog? Hours of work instead of the seconds it would take to click All Photos > Keywords > Waterfalls.

If your LR is crawling, look for the reason elsewhere.

I have had a real slow down in performance, even despite the new Lightroom claiming to be faster, on the contrary with a smaller catalog, I have found it to be faster.

Here is a link, which even suggest you make your catalog smaller
http://alikgriffin.com …ns-lightroom-running-slow

tzalman wrote in post #17599095
Bad advice and contrary to what both Adobe spokespeople and independent "gurus" say, as well as pros with catalogs of over 500,000 photos who report no slowing. And it is just not the way LR is designed to work. You can only open one catalog at a time and there are no actions that can be performed across multiple catalogs. What if I want to see all the photos of waterfalls that I've shot in the last ten years? I'm supposed to open 120 catalogs, one after another? And if I want to see all those shots together in one thumbnail grid, I do what? Make yet another catalog called Waterfalls and whenever I find some waterfall shots export them as a catalog and then import that catalog into the Waterfalls catalog? Hours of work instead of the seconds it would take to click All Photos > Keywords > Waterfalls.

If your LR is crawling, look for the reason elsewhere.

In a way, you're right, but I was thinking on the basis because my laptop seems to have a problem with large catalogs, and it is a good computer. My desktop doesn't seem to mind large catalog size i.e. eats it up for dinner

Good evening all, will the newest Lightroom run on Windows 7Pro??

TIA

Merlin Driver wrote in post #17604884
Good evening all, will the newest Lightroom run on Windows 7Pro??

TIA

If it's a x64 version then yes.

RichSoansPhotos wrote in post #17602484
In a way, you're right, but I was thinking on the basis because my laptop seems to have a problem with large catalogs, and it is a good computer. My desktop doesn't seem to mind large catalog size i.e. eats it up for dinner

Then by your own admission, the size of the catalog isn't the problem, the system it is running on is. Could be bus speed, amount of memory, speed of memory, speed of HD, video card...etc...

digirebelva wrote in post #17605108
Then by your own admission, the size of the catalog isn't the problem, the system it is running on is. Could be bus speed, amount of memory, speed of memory, speed of HD, video card...etc...

+1 to this.
My catalog is up to 11,000+ images and LR runs the same speed as it did when I first started.

digirebelva wrote in post #17605108
Then by your own admission, the size of the catalog isn't the problem, the system it is running on is. Could be bus speed, amount of memory, speed of memory, speed of HD, video card...etc...

It's wholly down to the system which you are running on, my laptop hard is a crawl at 5400rpm, I am waiting on my manufacturer to see if a SSD is able to be installed on it without any problems, my older laptop, according to them, wasn't tested with SSD so they couldn't verify it

RichSoansPhotos wrote in post #17606120
It's wholly down to the system which you are running on, my laptop hard is a crawl at 5400rpm,

We have a winner....

Remember, bus speed is important to to get the full effects of an SSD drive

Ursyn wrote in post #17605069
If it's a x64 version then yes.

Thank you

Love Lightroom 6, they seem to have fixed the horrible exporting and importing of photos where some of them were not imported. I don't know whether this was fixed in LR5, because I skipped that completely