I searched and found some really old post on Adobe Lightroom. Two questions, well 3 questions. Does anyone on here run Adobe Lightroom on a MAC?
If so do you use it as a library for your images?
How many images do you have active in the library?
I’ve been around the software for a couple of years and it works great as workflow softwear but now that my library is over 50,000 images it has become slow. I’m thinking it may be the folder structure, in that I may have stacked too many in the chain.
Its not the computer, I have a Mac Pro with 2wo Quad-Core Intel Xeon processors and its maxed out with RAM. Its driving me crazy and I can’t seem to find any answers in my industry (newspaper) because everyone uses Indesign and K-12 as a plug for data library.
Doug.
I use LR 2.3 (whatever the latest is)
I found that dividing my catalog up, by year, sped things up drastically.
Also, I like having a years worth of images open at one time.
I have catalogue for 2009, 2008, 2007, back to 2005.
I've attached a screen grab of how I store images.
I have a separate hard drive for only my camera RAW images that go into LR.
Each year the months broken down. Makes viewing months photos in the library module a breeze.
When I shoot, I make a folder with that days date.
Also, select all in your catalog, and render 1:1 previews while your doing something else, then save that catalog. That way the program won't be trying to render you previews in the background while your working. Depending on how many photos you have, it could take quite a while to render.
Hope this helps.
Thanks guys for the info. I think I have too many folders stacked on top of each other. Day, month, year and sometime multiple assignments form the same day. I did a little test and just dumped a years worth of photos into a new catalog and its back up to speed. I like my system because it helps me track a years worth of work by publication date of images so I think I'll keep that system for the year I'm working in and the rest I'll clean out all the folders. I’ll report back and post results. I just started using Lightroom as an archive I had been using Portfolio but its was not cutting it for me on the speed end of doing searches.
Posted by David Taylor on May 28, 2009 at 12:20 AM
You all probably know this, but I'll put it out there incase someone reads this who isn't aware of it. If you regularly let Lightroom backup your catalog (I do it weekly or more), check your "Backups" folder. If you didn't know, LR saves every backup, unless you delete it. I only keep the last three backups. Each backup folder can take up hundreds of megs or even a gig of space. Keep a recent few, delete the rest.
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5 repliesIf so do you use it as a library for your images?
How many images do you have active in the library?
I’ve been around the software for a couple of years and it works great as workflow softwear but now that my library is over 50,000 images it has become slow. I’m thinking it may be the folder structure, in that I may have stacked too many in the chain.
Its not the computer, I have a Mac Pro with 2wo Quad-Core Intel Xeon processors and its maxed out with RAM. Its driving me crazy and I can’t seem to find any answers in my industry (newspaper) because everyone uses Indesign and K-12 as a plug for data library.
If your catalog seems to be running slow, do the Optimize Catalog command from the Catalog Settings dialog box.
Corrupted previews can also cause problems; make sure that LR is periodically removing old 1:1 previews (also set in preferences).
There's more about catalogs and performance in my new Lightroom book.
I use LR 2.3 (whatever the latest is)
I found that dividing my catalog up, by year, sped things up drastically.
Also, I like having a years worth of images open at one time.
I have catalogue for 2009, 2008, 2007, back to 2005.
I've attached a screen grab of how I store images.
I have a separate hard drive for only my camera RAW images that go into LR.
Each year the months broken down. Makes viewing months photos in the library module a breeze.
When I shoot, I make a folder with that days date.
Also, select all in your catalog, and render 1:1 previews while your doing something else, then save that catalog. That way the program won't be trying to render you previews in the background while your working. Depending on how many photos you have, it could take quite a while to render.
Hope this helps.