Lightroom 3.5 freezes every time I try to export

Question

I have tried to export some pictures and have not been able to.
We have 329,000 pictures in lightroom but haven't had any problem before 3.5.
Has anyone found this problem with 3.5?

Answer 1

Hello Hal,
Before the holidays I couldn't make it export, no matter what I did.
Now I can't make it freeze up.
I am trying to figure out what is different. I had lots of programs opened
and may have had a RAM shortage issue but I don't know what else is
different.
I have probably reset the computer two or three times since then and have
only iPhoto running right now...as Lightroom is now functioning properly.
I just successfully burned a CD from exporting directly from Lightroom and
then attempted to also export the same pictures (about 40 files) to a hard
drive and it didn't lock up for that either. I guess we don't have a
problem anymore.
Maybe this isn't the right place to ask for a couple of features but I have
looked on your website multiple times to try and figure out where to
request features in Lightroom.
1-Simple duplicate deleting without having to manually deal with every
single file. Over the years we have had multiple hard drives crash. Before
we discovered the cloning software which doesn't require us to find the
unique files, we just started saving all of these backup drives and have
ended up with sometimes 10 duplicates of pictures. We now have probably
150,000 duplicate pictures in our 329,000 pictures in Lightroom. The other
reason for the duplicates is that the naming systems didn't used to make
unique names each time we imported. So, each time the camera was downloaded
we had what appeared to be duplicate names of pictures in the computer. If
we re-name them in a batch, the other programs which have imported these
pictures will no longer recognize these names. There are still thousands of
pictures with the same names but aren't really duplicates.
Another challenge with deleting duplicates is that I have folders that have
legitimate duplicates (say in a company website folder) We would need to be
able to have the option to delete all duplicates EXCEPT in Folders X  AND Y
AND Z. This way we can protect any collections we keep outside of
Lightroom. I can't really have an outside program do this without making a
mess in lightroom. Anything that is changed outside of Lightroom turns into
a question mark inside of Lightroom. Then you have to go in and hope you
are not deleting files that you really didn't want to delete. Maybe you
already have a feature like this.  *
Even if you started with having the option to place the folder name on each
picture so that as we look at the duplicates lined up on the screen, we can
quickly tell which folders and duplicates we want to keep. That would be
helpful for a start.
2-Face recognition would be a nice feature too. Right now I am importing as
many pictures as possible into iPhoto so that I can have that feature for
at least my most recent pictures.
Thank you for your quick responses. I wasn't able to spend much time on my
desktop with the Lightroom software over the last week...Sorry.
If there are any other ways I can help you find the problem with exporting,
let me know.
Thanks,
Mike