Adobe lightroom slow

I have just installed Adobe Lightroom on a 17in G4
with 1 gig Memory. I uploaded only about 2000
pictures that are sitting on an external 1 Terabyte
harddrive. The thumbnails are pixalated and you
can't view a larger image of the thumbnail withinout
waiting 20 minutes (actually the larger image never
did come up). I have another 15,000 images to
upload. Would another gig of memory help? Anyone
experienceing issues with Lightroom? I love the
product, but right now, it's not doing me much good.
Question. Is Lightroom performing any tasks in the background like rendering 1:1 previews? Basically the comp would be creating full size jpegs of each raw file. Very time consuming, very processor intensive. Try turning off "render standard sized previews" when importing and seeing what happens... if its not on, then I'm out.
I share your enthusiasm for Lightroom, Adobe "gets it" when it comes to these things. Aperture we like you too but you have catching up to do by ahem, allowing xmp data to be imported. (And how about ignoring imports if their already in our library, hello apple!)
Good luck!
MacBook 2.16 GHz Mac OS X (10.4.9)

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Given that Adobe Photoshop uses Adobe Camera RAW as a dynamic linked library why can't Adobe Lightroom also isolate its version of Camera RAW into a dynamic library that can be updated independently of the main Lightroom application? Doing this would make it much easier to add additional cameras to Lightroom without having to both download 200MB and install a new application. Each time I install a new Lightroom update, the install process leaves behind the directory for the old version since Adobe prefers to create minor version specific program files directories and it screws up Windows Vista/7 functions such as the Photo import dialog which now shows multiple entries for Adobe Lightroom (once for each time I updated). I can't figure out how to delete the multiple entries or which one to click on.
Now don't get me started on the basic performance of Lightroom 3.3 on anything but a recent highly spec'd laptop. On my now low-end dual core 32bit Windows 7 laptop with 3GB of RAM It takes about 8 to ten seconds *per image* to get the "loading" message to go away when an image is selected in the Develop panel. This occurs even if I continually keep switching between the same two images -- as if Lightroom is not caching anything at all even though I have enlarged my Camera RAW cache to 10GB.

Unfortunately everything is going against you. The main reason why the provide it as a single file is for several reasons:
1) You can update from any version in one click and voila! you're done.
2) Providing one file is less confusing for the masses and less tech support issues in regards to upgrade paths.
3) The installation replaces every file so as to not cause any versioning issues which might arise if you are not upgrading from the previous version (yes I know there is ways around this but they're trying to make it simplistic).
4) Helps maintain the ability to supply a demo version of the latest version plus protect their system because if you have a "dodge" copy and you're upgrading, then it's going to have a tanty at you.
And so on... there are always reasons for doing things and Adobe decided that it's just better this way for everyone involved.
With the versioning issue, this is not true. If you look inside the directory you should only find empty folders. If they are empty, then just simply remove them. If there is still files, then you have a serious problem somewhere and I'd suggest you try to do a full clean install to fix that problem. I just updated to 3.4 last night and went through to clean out the empty 3.4 RC directories. Never had an issue upgrading and I always use the RC before it goes final.
When it comes to your computer then I can only say that with a forever increasing volume of photographs being catalogued you are going to experience slowdown not to mention all the changes which you have applied to your photographs. No matter how big your cache is, you are going to be limited by sheer grunt power and disk performance.
If you want to get a performance boost then I recommend swapping out that horribly slow 5400 (or slower) rpm hard drive in the notebook and put in a SSD instead. This will give your notebook an awesome new lease on life and Lightroom will be much more responsive. If you place your catalogs onto the SSD and have separate high speed storage for your photographs then it should perform much better.
Other than that the only other option is to go to a dedicated PC or Mac for your photography needs and move on. Notebooks are really good but I've never viewed them as a platform to perform like a dedicated PC or Mac no matter how much money you throw at it.
Just be warned that a large Raw cache is a double edge knife. Too small is ineffective and Too large is only going to exacerbate your issue.

Lightroom slower when GPU acceleration is enabled

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All the hype about GPU acceleration and in reality is slows me down.
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Lightroom version: CC 2015.0.1 [ 1018573 ]
License: Creative Cloud
Operating system: Windows 8.1 Business Edition
Version: 6.3 [9600]
Application architecture: x64
System architecture: x64
Logical processor count: 8
Processor speed: 3.3 GHz
Built-in memory: 16366.4 MB
Real memory available to Lightroom: 16366.4 MB
Real memory used by Lightroom: 3261.9 MB (19.9%)
Virtual memory used by Lightroom: 3324.1 MB
Memory cache size: 1469.4 MB
Maximum thread count used by Camera Raw: 4
Camera Raw SIMD optimization: SSE2,AVX
System DPI setting: 96 DPI
Desktop composition enabled: Yes
Displays: 1) 2560x1440, 2) 2560x1440
Input types: Multitouch: No, Integrated touch: No, Integrated pen: Yes, External touch: No, External pen: Yes, Keyboard: No
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Check OpenGL support: Passed
Vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
Version: 3.3.0 NVIDIA 350.12
Renderer: GeForce GTX 560 Ti/PCIe/SSE2
LanguageVersion: 3.30 NVIDIA via Cg compiler
Application folder: C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Lightroom
Library Path: D:\Pictures\Lightroom\Lightroom Catalog.lrcat
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After advice from several experts, I've just purchased Adobe Lightroom 4. I've already got Photoshop CS5, but I was looking for something proper to organise my photos, plus I found Lightroom easier to do the sort of editing I am wanting to do. Now, I only really use photoshop for things like colour pops, or really in-depth editing. Anyway, I'm loving Lightroom so far, but there is some stuff I'm not very sure of, so I'd appreciate some help
1. Organising
Firstly, I'm not really sure how to organise. At the moment, I've just got lots of folders with random events in My Pictures on W7, so I might have a folder called April 11, which contains photos from that month but that might have been a wedding or an easter holiday or both. So it doesn't really work. \
I understand in Lightroom what catalogs are. But I know enough to know that I don't want to group mine into those, its getting too complicated. What I don't know though is the difference between a collection and a folder. Basically, I'm wanting to reimport and reorganise all my photos, so I want to put them into "events" as such like you can do on iPhoto on a mac, so I would have "France Summer Holiday 11" for example, or "Mia's Wedding". I'm not really sure on the best way to do this ...?
2. Editing
I've played around quite a bit so far, and I really like what I've seen. On a lot of photos, I've made a lot of changes. But from what I can see, these changes are stored merely in Lightroom itself. For example, at the moment I'm importing photos from my external disk into Lightroom, which then saves them in C://My Pictures/Lightroom/Pictures . When I go look at these photos in windows explorer which I know I have edited, it doesn't show any of the changes or editing I've done on them. Now I realise this is me being stupid, but why doesn't it? Supposing I then want to email that photo to a friend that I have edited? How would I do that? I don't want to have to open lightroom and export every single photo I edit? There must be a simpler way?
Likewise for backing up, because all my files are in subfolders within C:// My pictures / Lightroom / Pictures, to back up I was simply going to set up windows to copy that latter folder onto my external HDD everytime I plugged it in. This would be pointless however if it isn't physically overwriting the original photo with my edited version?
3. Editing 2
Something else I like to do is make lots of different edits to the same photo. For example, at the moment I'm editing a photo of a pier at night. I spent ages adjusting colours and lighting and so on, and now it looks great. But I would also like to save a copy of that photo with the "old age photo" effect preset on. Is this possible? and how do I do it? Other than obviously importing a duplicate?
4. & 5. & 6 - Misc:
4. Simple question - how do I add tags, keywords or comments if I haven't done it on import?
5. My camera doesn't have built in GPS. Is it possible for me to manually geotag photos (in a batch, say for a Summer Holiday to NY), could I manually add a geotag for all these photos?
6. I also forgot to add copyright information on import for some, is it possible to do this after import and how?
7. I normally shoot in JPEG. I probably shoot shoot in RAW as everyone tells me to do so. Are there any significant advantages in terms of quality, and for editing with?
Thanks for any help given. I appreciate this is a lot of questions, but I could really use the advice.

Hi William,
1. Organising
Firstly, I'm not really sure how to organise. At the moment, I've just got lots of folders with random events in My Pictures on W7, so I might have a folder called April 11, which contains photos from that month but that might have been a wedding or an easter holiday or both. So it doesn't really work. \
I understand in Lightroom what catalogs are. But I know enough to know that I don't want to group mine into those, its getting too complicated. What I don't know though is the difference between a collection and a folder. Basically, I'm wanting to reimport and reorganise all my photos, so I want to put them into "events" as such like you can do on iPhoto on a mac, so I would have "France Summer Holiday 11" for example, or "Mia's Wedding". I'm not really sure on the best way to do this ...?
I am not so sure if you understand *catalogs*.
You need a catalog, exactly 1 in my opinion. A catalog is a database. The Lightroom database, where records about your images are stored, including the pointers to your images, which are not inside a catalog! LR backups just does the backup of the catalog (i.e. a file ending .lrcat). You need to take care separately that your real images are backed up !
Inside your LR database the best way to organize is via collections - this will give you what you want with "France summer holiday 11" etc.
Folders are relatively unimportant, just storage buckets. They should be *handy portions*, I would prefer them with below 3000 images each, as there currently some bugs to those bigger ones.
Before you start with LR, you can organize your pictures in Mac Finder / WindowsExplorer.
Or you could do it with the help of LR, by copying your images over during import into the destination folders (and deleting today's folders afterwards after having verified that everything is fine).
A simple date-based structure will do, I'd recommend a root parent folder like "LR images", underneath one folder per year (\2010\, \2011\, \2012\...) and underneath them either
just one folder per month (LR can auto-create them for you)
or you create the folders in import dialog as e.g. "YYYY-MM-DD description of shoot", to have a mini-diary overview also in your OS.
Apart from that you create collections, either *dumb ones*, where you drag images into, or smart ones, where you specify criteria according to which they get auto-filled.
2. Editing
I've played around quite a bit so far, and I really like what I've seen. On a lot of photos, I've made a lot of changes. But from what I can see, these changes are stored merely in Lightroom itself. For example, at the moment I'm importing photos from my external disk into Lightroom, which then saves them in C://My Pictures/Lightroom/Pictures . When I go look at these photos in windows explorer which I know I have edited, it doesn't show any of the changes or editing I've done on them. Now I realise this is me being stupid, but why doesn't it? Supposing I then want to email that photo to a friend that I have edited? How would I do that? I don't want to have to open lightroom and export every single photo I edit? There must be a simpler way?
Likewise for backing up, because all my files are in subfolders within C:// My pictures / Lightroom / Pictures, to back up I was simply going to set up windows to copy that latter folder onto my external HDD everytime I plugged it in. This would be pointless however if it isn't physically overwriting the original photo with my edited version?
LR will never overwrite your original photos.
You can save most of the catalog content into the xmp-part of the original photo, which is either a sidecar-file (.xmp) or part of the file format, like for DNG, TIFF, PSD, JPG. To do so you select the image in LR and hit <ctrl> s. Or you set it up for continuous update, which creates a lot of operations while you play back and forth in develop.
I do that on my own, typically twice per file: once I am done with develop, once I am done with keywording and other metadata update.
LR contains records about your images, i.e. a set of instructions how they are to be interpreted. That is all.
So of course you need LR to export the result of these instructions, which is actually pretty quick.
To backup your images you need to do that just once, plus you backup your LR catalog. Or if you save xmp to the files, you can do another backup once xmp is ready.
I would not consider this pointless. You just have to think that there are 2 places with data for your images: the images themselves and a database with interpretation instructions.
3. Editing 2
Something else I like to do is make lots of different edits to the same photo. For example, at the moment I'm editing a photo of a pier at night. I spent ages adjusting colours and lighting and so on, and now it looks great. But I would also like to save a copy of that photo with the "old age photo" effect preset on. Is this possible? and how do I do it? Other than obviously importing a duplicate?
Yes, this is one of LR's beauties: you create a so-called *virtual copy*, which is just a 2nd record for the same original image file with different interpretation settings, like black-and-white, a different crop size, different development etc. You can have as many virtual copies as you like, and you'll see them as additional thumbnails.
Virtual copies are not saveable into xmp, though. There is another concept which is saveable into xmp: snapshots. but these are different states in develop history, and you do not see outside develop module that you have several.
If you export virtual copies e.g. to jpg one file per virutal copy will be created.
4. & 5. & 6 - Misc:
4. Simple question - how do I add tags, keywords or comments if I haven't done it on import?
5. My camera doesn't have built in GPS. Is it possible for me to manually geotag photos (in a batch, say for a Summer Holiday to NY), could I manually add a geotag for all these photos?
6. I also forgot to add copyright information on import for some, is it possible to do this after import and how?
7. I normally shoot in JPEG. I probably shoot shoot in RAW as everyone tells me to do so. Are there any significant advantages in terms of quality, and for editing with?
Thanks for any help given. I appreciate this is a lot of questions, but I could really use the advice.
ad 4: you use the library module, metadata panel to enter.
ad 5: you use the map module. Either you manually drop your images on a map, or you have a separate GPS track to load and have LR assign via matching time-stamps.
ad 6: like 4
ad 7: You don't need JPG from your camera, you can achieve better results viy LR from RAW. Yes, there are significant advantages as to editing headroom.
Overall, may I suggest my favorite learning material for LR? First watch Julieanne's Tutorial Videos.
Then go play and use Victoria Bampton's eBook or paper copy of her "Missing FAQs to LR4": http://www.lightroomqueen.com/books/adobe-lightroom-4-missing-faq/
Have fun,
Cornelia

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You do not have the necessary authorization to install this software. Make ure you have administrative privileges before trying again."
I am not sure what user name and password to use. I tried my Apple and it refuses it and I tried the Adobe and it doesn't take this either. Can anyone provide assistance?
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I have bought a new pc, and i want to move adobe lightroom frome my old computer to my new comuter.

I have bought a new computer and I want to move adobe lightroom frome my old computer to my new computer, how do I do this?

thank you
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2013 12:14:18 -0700
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Subject: I have bought a new pc, and i want to move adobe lightroom frome my old computer to my new comuter.
    Re: I have bought a new pc, and i want to move adobe lightroom frome my old computer to my new comuter.
    created by Tom Hogarty in Photoshop General Discussion - View the full discussion
This is a fairly in-depth tutorial on moving from one computer to another.(I recommend Option 1)
http://www.lightroomqueen.com/2009/02/28/how-do-i-move-lightroom-to-a- new-computer/
Also, there's no need to find the original disk for installation. Just download the latest update of your purchased version from here: http://www.adobe.com/downloads/updates/ and user your original serial number.
Regards,
Tom Hogarty
Adobe Systems
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