Lightroom 5 is quite slow in importing photos

Lightroom 5 is quite slow in importing photos from a memory card connected to a reader using USB 3.0! After installing LR5, I didn't change any default settings. Interestingly, this wasn't found in beta testing. LR4 was what I call quick or snappy. Because of LR5's slow performance, I went back to LR4 after paying for the Cloud subscription.
With substantial difficulty and after some time passed, I eventually was able to speak to Support which offered no fix for this issue. I hope that it can be resolved soon.

Selecting the Import from below in Files does help speed up the start of the Import as mentioned in the thread you referred to but is still maybe three or so times slower than in LR4. At least it makes using LR5 more bearable.
Thanks.

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I would expect nothing less. even importing videos from my standards camera takes a while...thats not the issue here.
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Lightroom will not let me import photos from either camera or desktop. I can see them in the preview part of Lightroom but when I click import, just says they can't be read. HELP!

Lightroom will not let me import photos from either my camera or my desktop. They show up in the preview bit of Lightroom and I select the ones i want to import, then add my metadata info etc and file handling, but then when I hit IMPORT just keeps saying they can't be read. SO FRUSTRATING.

F. McLion wrote:
You are copying the photos. Does LR have the permission to delete the files from its source location - as DdeGannes suggested? Maybe this dialog is misleading.
Did you try to just add files copied to the destination before - just for finding the issue?
If nothing helps: Any chance you can upload one of the jpg to some file sharing service so we can have look at it?
I believe DdeGannes suggested permission on the Destination folder (not the source folder). Performing a copy requires only Read&Write permission on the destination folder, not the source folder. You need to go into your operating system and change the permissions to Read&Write on the destination folder. (If you don't know how to do that, go to your favorite search engine and type in Change Permissions Mac)

Iphoto won't quit, won't import photos, stalls while editing photos despite rebuilding the database

I have mountain lion and the newest version of iphoto. It won't quit unless I force quit it, it won't import photos, it won't let me edit photos without freezing up. I have tried rebuilding the database and repairing permissions without success

Try this: launch iPhoto with the Option key held down and create a new, test library. Import some photos and check to see if the same problem persists. If it freezes also try this:
1 - delete the iPhoto preference file, com.apple.iPhoto.plist, that resides in your
User/Home/Library/ Preferences folder.
2 - delete iPhoto's cache file, Cache.db, that is located in your
User/Home/Library/Caches/com.apple.iPhoto folder (Snow Leopard and Earlier).
or with Mt. Lion from the User/Library/Containers/com.apple.iPhoto/
Data/Library/Caches/com.apple.iPhoto folder
3 - launch iPhoto and try again.
NOTE: If you're moved your library from its default location in your Home/Pictures folder you will have to point iPhoto to its new location when you next open iPhoto by holding down the Option key when launching iPhoto. You'll also have to reset the iPhoto's various preferences.
NOTE 2: In Lion and Mountain Lion the Library folder is now invisible. To make it permanently visible enter the following in the Terminal application window: chflags nohidden ~/Library and hit the Enter button - 10.7: Un-hide the User Library folder.
If the new library doesn't freeze or act like your current library then your current library is the culprit.
In that case Apply the two fixes below in order as needed:
Fix #1
Launch iPhoto with the Command+Option keys held down and rebuild the library.
Since only one option can be run at a time start with Option #3, followed by #4 and then #1 as needed.
Fix #2
Using iPhoto Library Manager to Rebuild Your iPhoto Library
1 - download iPhoto Library Manager and launch.
2 - click on the Add Library button, navigate to your Home/Pictures folder and select your iPhoto Library folder.
3 - Now that the library is listed in the left hand pane of iPLM, click on your library and go to the File ➙ Rebuild Library menu option.
4 - In the next window name the new library and select the location you want it to be placed.
5 - Click on the Create button.
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Hi
I am experiencing iPhoto quits/crashes when attempting to import photos from a Masters folder. I'm doing this - importing from the Masters - because I think I have tried to rebuild the database the first time it occurred, although I'm not sure if I was successful doing that.
I've read a number of forum threads about this, and there seems to be many possible causes and solutions, but I don't want to make the problem worse by attempting to apply an incorrect fix.
Can someone help me please?
I'm running iPhoto v9.2.3 on OS X 10.6.8
Many thanks in advance.

To be perfectly honest, I'm not sure, it's one of the things that was mentioned somewhere else as a means of bypassing a damaged database structure and importing into a new library...I think. This is a good example of why I want to get this fix right.
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Process:         iPhoto [168]
Path:            /Applications/iPhoto.app/Contents/MacOS/iPhoto
Identifier:      com.apple.iPhoto
Version:         9.2.3 (9.2.3)
Build Info:      iPhotoProject-629052000000000~1
Code Type:       X86 (Native)
Parent Process: launchd [105]
Date/Time:       2015-02-03 18:43:09.063 +0000
OS Version:      Mac OS X 10.6.8 (10K549)
Report Version: 6
Interval Since Last Report:          12856 sec
Crashes Since Last Report:           15
Per-App Interval Since Last Report: 9283 sec
Per-App Crashes Since Last Report:   11
Anonymous UUID:                      25C5488B-5280-458E-935C-35A613EDE293
Exception Type: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGSEGV)
Exception Codes: KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS at 0x0000000080808003
Crashed Thread: 0 Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread
Thread 0 Crashed: Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread
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I agree with most of your points:
Points 1, 2, 3 - I agree.
Point 4.
yes - all of my RAW files have .xmp files associated with them as they contain the metadata and keywords I have entered via Bridge/ACR.
Lightroom imports these details but shouldn't then be making any additional changes which need to be written back to the xmp files. This is where the problem has surfaced as Lightroom has made unknown changes to some of the photos and wants to write them back to the xmp files - see my comments below about point 6.
Point 5.
By installing a trial copy of Lightroom 5.3 on a different PC and creating a new catalog I avoided carrying forward any incorrect preferences etc I may have previously used - all photos in this new catalog have been freshly imported for testing. The fact that Lightroom displays the "metadata has changed" icon to the same photos as my original Lightroom 4.4 installation after importing them demonstrates that an unidentified Lightroom process is making changes to some (but NOT ALL) of the imported photos.
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"auto write to xmp" - This is not selected in my catalog settings as I want to be in control of when Lightroom updates the xmp files. At present I am still learning Lightroom so I don't want to accidentally write any changes back to the xmp files until I am completely sure of the consequences, hence my main work still takes place in ACR.
Point 7.
My current workflow choice is to continue using xmp sidecar files as per the following statement at
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"Changes you make in Lightroom can appear in Camera Raw and vice versa. To complete this interactivity, changes in both Camera Raw and Lightroom need to be written to XMP metadata. This is so that each software application can recognize the other's edits."
- but I have to be confident that any Lightroom changes to the xmp files are as a result of my planned actions.
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All of the default Develop Settings are deselected in my preferences/presets and I don't have any import presets - the develop settings and metadata are set to "none".
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mnashp wrote:
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I understand. I've been making this point about the loss of Publish Services on an "Import from another Catalog" at every opportunity since LR5 was released. I even contributed to Victoria Bampton's blog post about upgrading catalogs into LR5:
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It is very frustrating and i am thinking to go back to pc...what is the problem with iphoto? any other software may be similar in concept with the pc ones..

1. There was no need to delete all your Exif data. One field may have ben faulty at most.
2. Did you try Open and Save a file in Preview and then import? This will fix a lot of mal-formed medatata issues.
3. Did you try make a new library and see if they would import there?
I'm on this forum for a long while. I've never seen "remove all metadata suggested as a solution for this - or any - issue.
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Thank you for your response. It gives me hope!
I really appreciate your offer to help. I have not worked through a forum before but I am assuming you are an Adobe employee, right? It would not seem fair to ask for this much help from someone who was not an Adobe employee.
In any case I should try your first suggestion of letting LR run. I know I have let it run about an hour and I may have tried over night. At what point would you give up on that approach?
In answer to your question of size I just went to check it out and found it is 145 MB. I have lots of photos marked with 1 star that I plan to delete so I would really like to get the rating functional.
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