Big Library:Slow Performance?

I have about 10,000 photos (.jpg ~3MB each) in my Aperture Library. I want to add many more photos but I'm worried about slow performance. My questions:
1. How big is your library or how big do you think the libraries can get?
2. Have you noticed slower performance with larger libraries?
3. Any opinion on breaking up into multiple smaller libraries vs. 1 larger library?

I am running two libraries,
one for all of my work related imagery, 15,000+ images 50/50 raw & jpegs and
the other for all of my stuff I shoot of sporting clubs, the bit I give back to the community, 18,000+ predominantly jpeg's
both run smoothly, one on the MacPro and the other on the G4 laptop.
Issue starts to be the backing up, if you are thinking it will get BIG, try a library for each client. Could be a good selling point as well, "your imagery is isolated from other clients and has its own dedicated backup".
Tony

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Does 1 big image = slower performance, even if only 10% of it is drawn?

Hey, I want to make a tile based game, but I was wondering... If I created a large image thats bigger than the game window based on the tile data, would it be slow to draw this image in the window, even if only %25 of the image is ever seen due to the smaller size of the window? (Is it automaticaly clipped?)
Or is it better to just draw the current viewable tiles over and over instead of creating one large image?
In case your wondering, this is for a RTS game, that will involve the world map being scrollable.

In a nutshell, yes.
As you have written it, Java will load the entire image into memory and treat the resulting block of memory as one "continous block" as far as operations go. If you decided to clip 25% of the image, you will have to write a routine that determines the boundaries of the visible region, and Java then will have to determine the memory addresses of that region and copy the relevant details to the buffer. In other words, you still have to calculate what region to display.
(I'm glossing over the details, I just want to give you enough background so that you can make an informed decision based on your needs.)
Java does automatically clip if you tell it to draw two overlapping regions but you still have to specify which region has priority.
The alternative is to break the image down into tiles. Each tile likewise takes up a chunk of memory but you can eliminate all redundant tiles. That is, if you want to show a 5x5 square of grass, you can instruct the game to draw the 1x1 square of grass 25 times as opposed to the one 5x5 tile, and the smaller tile takes up less memory. More importantly, you can choose to update only the relevant tiles as the player travels across the map. I.e., player moves left. Draw new tile in spot player just vacated. Leave rest of map untouched.
So to answer your question, which approach is better depends on exactly what you want to do and what your hardware constraints are. Some people would even suggest mixing and matching, using the clipping feature to draw the player tile on top of the visible portion of the map.
A hint: decide whether you want the player to remain stationary while the world scrolls underneath him (use tiles) or if you want the player to move around while the world stays stationary (use large image).

Slow performance LR 1.3.1 (Library Module)

LR 1.2 is running OK on my iMac. A while ago I tried LR 1.3. The upgrade really slowed down performance. Mostly a lag in the sliders and navigation tools in both Library and Develop modules that made it unworkable to me. I changed back to LR 1.2.
Since I want to import Canon G9 RAW files into LR, I upgraded to LR 1.3.1 recently. Performance of sliders and the navigation tool in the Develop module seems the same as in LR 1.2 (or maybe even a little better). Which means it is OK (workable). It still shows the blur when navigating a 100% zoomed image though. But the navigation tool in the Library module still has the same slow performance as it had in LR 1.3. Unworkable!!! I tried everything: optimizing, new catalog, rendering previews, etc.
I need the Library module to work smoothly (as in LR 1.2) in order to compare images at 100% zoom. I am afraid I have to go back to LR 1.2 again and find another solution for my Canon G9 RAW files. Most inconvenient. I am very disappointed. Especially, since Adobe showed they CAN get it right with the Develop module in version LR 1.3.1...
Oh yeah, my system specs:
iMac 2.16 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
3GB 667 Mhz DDR2 SDRAM (2GB + 1GB)
232,89 GB Harddrive, 113 GB available
ATI Radeon X1600 128MB
Mac OS 10.4.11
Please Adobe, make the Library module run as smoothly as the Develop module in version 1.3.2...

The preview folder is 2,11 GB big. The .lrcat is 47 MB big.
I opened a new test catalog. I imported 326 images. After the import I rendered 1:1 previews. It took a long time. Real memory used was between 700-1000MB. Virtual memory used was between 1000-1400MB. When it was done rendering it still keep on using 700MB real memory and 1000MB virtual memory. I had to close LR and restart. Real memory after restart was 75MB real memory and 375 virtual memory.
But it didn't matter. The lag in the navigation tool of the Library module was still there.
I noticed that when clicking in the navigation window there was less delay as when I slide the white square in the window (in Library module). In the develop module this seems the other way around. Sliding showed less delay than clicking.
What's going on here?
I also have a MacBook. Performance seems much faster than on my iMac overall. After creating a new catalog and rendering 1:1 previews, the lag in the navigation window seems less than before. But it was still there...

Slow Performance with large library (PC)

I've been reading many posts about slow performance but didn't see anything addressing this issue:
I have some 40000 photos in my catalog and despite generating previews for a group of directories, LR still is very slow in scrolling through the pics in these directories.
When I take 2000 of these pics and import them into a new catalog - again generating previews, the scroll through the pics happens much much faster.
So is there some upper limit of recommended catalog size for acceptable performance?
Do I need to split my pics up by year? Seems counter productive, but the only way to see the pics at an acceptable speed.

I also have serious performance issues, and i don´t even have a large database catalog, only around 2.000 pictures, the db file itself is only 75 mb big. Done optimization - didn´t help. What i encountered is that the cpu usage of LR 1.1 goes up and STAYS up around 85% for 4-5 minutes after programm start - during that time, zooming in to an image can take 2-3 minutes! After 4-5 minutes, cpu usage drops to 0%, the background task (whatever LR does during that time!) has finished and i can work very smoothly. preview generation cannot be the problem, since it also happens when i´m working in a folder that already has all previews build, close LR, and start again instantly. LR loads and AGAIN i´ll have to wait 4-5 minutes untill cpu ussage has dropped so i can continue working with my images smoothly.
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My big library gets Itunes 7 and my whole pc very slow

Hello,
Since i installed Itunes 7.0.0, i notice that when i launch it, my whole pc is getting very slow. My mouse doesn't move properly.
Il still have the problem with 7.0.1 and 7.0.2...
Then, i thought that i had a big library (nearly 20.000 songs). All my music is inside (all my cds since i am 13 years old !). Maybe it's a problem?
As 20.000 is the number of songs that you can get on an 80GB Ipod, i don't think it should be a problem in Itunes.
I can see Itunes is 95 752 Ko in RAM memory!
Even downloading music i buy and posdcasts from the itunes store is getting very slow
After closing Itunes, my pc gets back its natural speed.
My PC has Windows XP system, 2GB of RAM, AMD AThlon 3700+ (220 Mhz) and frequently formatted and reinstalled.
Help would be much appreciated if you have a solution.
Sorry for my bad english. This is not my native language.
Yves

I was trying to solve the same problem on a Mac, and found a slightly different solution. When I tried "Date Modified", I was seeing only the dates when the songs were originally added to my old Mac. So in View Options, i checked the "Date Added" column, which showed me all the duplicates as having been added on the same date. I was able to easily delete these and recover 20gigs of space.
Mac Pro Dual Core Intel Mac OS X (10.4.8)

CS5 or Pc Slow performance?

Hi there,I have a problem with my pc at work and because I am not quite sure in which one is exactly the problem I decide to ask you.The pc is intel pentium 4 with 3 Gb Ram XP professional service pack 3 Photoshop CS 5.
The pc is connected to server(data base).When I open a bunch of photos (20-30) approximately 8 - 12 MB each one and sometimes I experience a slow performance(for example I am trying to retouch/clone something and it takes a lot of time for the pc to redraw/respond) the interesting part is that it doesn't happen always(sometimes can be even 3 photos and it will take ages to do something) also I notice that after appr. 20 minutes it's suddenly start to work as it should normally(it's like there was an update and when is updated/complete everything is fine).When that start to happen today I restart CS5 and load the same photos and it work fine, so it is really bizarre for me.I put a 89% ram usage to the CS5(I pretty much use only all the time Photoshop and bridge ) also made the history steps to 7 and the cache to 6 for big and flat files.I was checking the Efficiency and it's all the time 100 % so it's like it's not the photoshop but like I said today i just restard the ps and upload the same photos and got fix...I tried to copy the photos on my hard drive(so it should not be affect of the performance of the server but still the same as when I take them straight from the server.Because the hard drive is only 80 gb ( I don't store anything there ) i did clean up and disk defragment still the same situation.Do you know what can be the problem and is it the Photoshop or the Pc?I'll appreciate it.
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Could be that your PC is sometimes looking to check things on the server, and maybe the server or network is busy/bogged down and you PC gets caught in that cycle mess.....so,
suggest next time you use Ps, set win performance monitor perfmon.exe or perfmon.msc ; setup to view graph of disk use and network activity and cpu usage.....then you may see/track a problem area.
on win7, task manager does most of the same stuff

Slow Performance - Java Related?

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An unexpected exception has been detected in native code outside the VM.
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NOTE: We are unable to locate the function name symbol for the error
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None of the solutions given have had any affect. My Java folder has both a 1.3.1 and a 1.4.2 app - the Java Update 2 will not reinstall because it sees an up-to-date app in the folder. But reading the update file it says the older Java will be removed - but it is still there. Problem?
On XBench the system scores a 9 to 10, while similar boxes on the XBench database score around 18 to 20. My cpu, memory, and video scores are very low. The HD through-put scores are the only ones that are normal. TechTool Pro 4 finds no problems. I have removed the memory sticks one at a time and retested after each cycle - no difference.
I have two drives, each with a 10.3.9 install. One works fine, scores around a 17 on XBench, the other scores a 9 to 10. So it appears to be a software problem. The slower install is a drive from a iMac G3 that has been moved to the G4 - are there issues with this?
My favored drive is the prior G3 one (newer and faster than the other drive that system tests faster in XBench) - it has my profile and all my info on it. It worked fine in the G3 - no problems.
Thanks for the help,
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Slow Performance, Windows with My Documents Redirection, path temp

I've been annoyed by the SLOW performace on Itunes for Windows ever since i purchased my iPhone, i think i know one reason for my slow performance now.
My Windowx-box is member of a domain (connected to a Windows Small Business server) and for security we use folder-redirection on "My Documents" folder (i.e instead of "C:\%username%\my documents\" we use \\server\%username%\my documents) this is a quite common setup on any businesscomputer using windows.
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I'd like to be able to configure where I want the library stored AND wich HD to put temp-files/cache on...
If this is something that takes ages to fix I welcome any reghacks or directions or wich file to hex-edit to make a workaround.

Copy the iTunes folder on the server to you local hard drive.
Hold Shift and launch iTunes.
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Slow performance of JDBC - ODBC MS ACCESS

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I am having the same problem with one machine as well. Running MS Access 2000 (unfortunately), and all machines run well with one exception. DB reads take about 10 seconds each. If a solution has been found, please report.
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Slow Performance CS 55, Indesign, Acrobat

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John,
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Extremely slow performance with Radeon HD 7870

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I am using a number of Adobe programs on my new Windows 8 64 bit system, with 16 gigs of ram, an Intel Core i5 2.67ghz, and AMD Radeon HD 7870 2 gig. All the programs (including After Effects and Illustrator) work very well with the exception of Photoshop CS6 64 bit, which has extremely slow performance with Use Graphics Processor enabled in my preferences (which Photoshop selects by default). If I turn off Use Graphics Processor, the slow performance vanishes. If I change Drawing Mode to Basic, there might be a slightly detectable improvement over Normal and Advanced, but it's still horribly slow. The refresh rate seems to be just a few frames per second. Everything is slow: brushes, zooming, panning, everything.
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Great news!
I followed your suggestion, Noel, and uninstalled my drivers with the Catalyst Uninstall Utility (which I hadn't used before), rebooted, reinstalled Catalyst 13.2 Beta 7, rebooted, deleted the PS Prefs, started PS, and now the performance is radically improved!
It baffles me why I would need to do a clean driver uninstall in a new system environment that has only ever had this video card, and is only a few months old, but that action seems to be what's improved the situation. Note that because I deleted the PS preferences, the good performance now occurs with the default Use Graphics Processor enabled, and Drawing Mode set to Advanced (with every feature in the Advanced dialog checked except 30bit display).
Having no reference point, I can't tell for sure if performance is as good as it theoretically ought to be for my system specs, but using the standard 13px brush is only slightly laggy behind the cursor, even if I become reckless and squiggle on the canvas violently. It wasn't just sluggish response before: Photoshop seemed to be in pain trying to draw the line segments as it laboured to catch up to the cursor. That is pretty much gone now.
Much more tellingly, zooming and panning the canvas is like it ought to be, responsive and clean, more or less like it was for me in CS4 with my old Nvidia 9600GT. The poor performance with zooming and panning was the most worrying aspect of the issue. It's a great relief to see these working more properly now.
I have to confess I'm a little embarrassed to have drug you through all this hassle only to discover that something as rudimentary as properly cleaning out the drivers would be the apparent solution. I never would have imagined that doing that, with such a new and stable system, would make any difference, since I don't have a legacy of older drivers dotting my hard drive. In any event, I'm really grateful that you guys took the time to try to help me.
In the interest of completeness, here's the relevant portion of my system info after doing the reinstall steps I mentioned above:
Adobe Photoshop Version: 13.1.2 (13.1.2 20130105.r.224 2013/01/05:23:00:00) x64
Operating System: Windows 8 64-bit
Version: 6.2
System architecture: Intel CPU Family:6, Model:14, Stepping:5 with MMX, SSE Integer, SSE FP, SSE2, SSE3, SSE4.1, SSE4.2
Physical processor count: 4
Processor speed: 2665 MHz
Built-in memory: 16379 MB
Free memory: 13680 MB
Memory available to Photoshop: 14695 MB
Memory used by Photoshop: 60 %
Image tile size: 1024K
Image cache levels: 4
OpenGL Drawing: Enabled.
OpenGL Drawing Mode: Advanced
OpenGL Allow Normal Mode: True.
OpenGL Allow Advanced Mode: True.
OpenGL Allow Old GPUs: Not Detected.
OpenCL Version: 3.0
OpenGL Version: 3.0
Video Rect Texture Size: 16384
OpenGL Memory: 2048 MB
Video Card Vendor: ATI Technologies Inc.
Video Card Renderer: AMD Radeon HD 7800 Series
Display: 1
Display Bounds: top=0, left=0, bottom=1080, right=1920
Video Card Number: 2
Video Card: AMD Radeon HD 7800 Series
Driver Version:
Driver Date:
Video Card Driver: aticfx64.dll,aticfx64.dll,aticfx64.dll,aticfx32,aticfx32,aticfx32,atiumd64.dll,atidxx64.d ll,atidxx64.dll,atiumdag,atidxx32,atidxx32,atiumdva,atiumd6a.cap,atitmm64.dll
Video Mode: 1920 x 1080 x 4294967296 colors
Video Card Caption: AMD Radeon HD 7800 Series
Video Card Memory: 2048 MB
Video Card Number: 1
Video Card: Microsoft Basic Render Driver
Driver Version: 12.100.17.0
Driver Date: 20130226000000.000000-000
Video Card Driver:
Video Mode:
Video Card Caption: Microsoft Basic Render Driver
Video Card Memory: 0 MB
As you can see, the Microsoft Basic Render Driver still appears as a Video Card in the list. This presumably has something to do with Windows 8, and I really don't know if its presence here is still a sign that my card is not being used to its optimal capability. I have a hunch that the slight lag that I am still experiencing with the brush when Use Graphics Processor is on -- totally absent with the acceleration turned off -- implies that Photoshop is still unable to take maximum advantage of my card. I would assume that the brush tool should be more responsive with acceleration on than off, in a rig without any issues, but that's just assumption on my part. If you turn off Use Graphics Processor on your systems, is the brush tool more or less responsive?
But again, panning the canvas with the hand tool is now extremely responsive, without any screen tearing or visible lag, and that's a massive improvement over the total meltdown of performance I was suffering from before.
Thanks again very much for your help. I'm grateful to all of you who took the time to chime in.

ITunes 10.1 (64-bit) slow performance

Hello all,
I have recently bought a new pc, a very fast machine (see details below), but I'm experiencing bad performance with iTunes 10.1 (64-bit) for windows.
I don't have a lot of stuff in iTunes, I have about 120 apps, 500 songs, 1200 photos, couple of ringtones and 0 videos in my library. The whole iTunes interface responds slowly. Like clicking on Music, Videos, my iPhone in the side menu makes iTunes freeze for a couple of seconds and then switches to the screen. Even after loading a screen iTunes is freezed for a seconds before it's responsive.
I've googled around for a while, and got some tips to disable some options in the preference window, so I've set all unnecessary things off, like: crossfadings songs, automatic update checking, looking for devices, automatic organizing, ping, genius, shared libraries, etc. but it doesn't speed up iTunes much.
It gets even worse whenever I connect my iPhone 3G (Fw 4.2.1, 16GB, Black). iTunes simply freezes for like half a minute and the pc makes a few beeping noises because of connecting an usb-device. Even Windows 7 slows down a lot while connecting. iTunes gets responsive once my iPhone appears under devices in the side menu.
Software I have constantly running in the backround are: AVG anti-virus free edition, SQL Server 2008, Steam and Skype. Turning off these softwares doesn't make a difference as well. There are no virusses or whatever on my pc. I let AVG anti-virus do a complete scan like once a week.
Taskmanager shows iTunes using about 240,000K of memory, followed by steam with 70,000k of memory and skype with 30,000k of memory.
Anyone else experiencing slow performance or know how to resolve this ?
System details:
Windows 7 64-bit
Intel i7 950 @ 3.06GHz quad core processor
6gigs of ddr3 (1600mhz) memory
Ocz vertex2 ssd (The O/S and all music, photos, apps are on this disk)
nvidia graphics card gtx460
Message was edited by: Leon49

Same with me! I recently bought a new laptop, and iTunes 9 was working just fine. It takes like 5 seconds to scroll down one line. Clicking on different tabs and things takes forever as well. I am not sure what is causing it yet, but like you, I have disabled all sorts of iTunes settings which has not helped yet. Hopefully Apple will fix this problem soon! Let me know if you find a way to solve this.
My PC Specs which are well above the minimum requirements:
Asus UL80Jt
Windows 7 64-Bit
Intel i3 330UM Dual Core Processor @ 1.2GHz (ASUS Overclocking to 1.7 GHz)
4GB RAM
1.3 GB Dedicated Video RAM
128 SSD

Powerbook painfully slow performance

Recently my powerbook has been running unusably slow. Here's a timeline:
- Noticed slow opening of applications, saving, switching from application to application, browsing folders through finder.
- Computer kept freezing after 1-10 minutes of use.
- Checked RAM in system profiler - 1GB RAM showing 512 MB.
- Removed RAM and restarted (new RAM being sent to me at present).
- Freezing problem stopped. Slow performance improved for 2-5 minutes after startup but after 10 minutes, back to same old slow usage.
- Checked hard drive, repaired permissions, did macjanitor cleanup.
- Hardware check from startup DVD showed no problems. SMART check OK'd hard drive.
- Archive and re-install tiger and updated to 10.4.9.
- Activity monitor shows %CPU usage as fairly normal. Kernel_task is using about 720MB of virtual memory under very light/no user usage.
- Created a new user and performance normal in new user, leading me to believe that the problem is related to user library and possibly preferences.
- Put preferences folder on desktop and started putting my preferences back into user library folder bit by bit, restarting and testing. The performance would be better each time but hard to test as I have to wait at least 10 mins to test each time - time consuming business.
Is there any way to narrow down which preference file is causing the problem without painstakingly re-adding preference files one by one to the user library folder, waiting 10 mins and testing?
Otherwise, could the diagnosis above be due to something else all together. Been through the discussions and can't get anything to work so far. The RAM was the cause of the freezing problem, but seems to have brought on the slowness problem.
Any help would be much appreciated, thanks Graeme.

Graeme:
If you have not done so recently run Unix Maintenance (CRON cleaning). Download and install MacJanitor and run all tests.
Dr. Smoke's FAQ Tuning Mac OS X Performance has some hints you may find helpful.
Regualar maintenance also helps performance. Take a look at the following articles:
Mac OS X 10.3/10.4: System maintenance
Macintosh OS X Routine Maintenance
Maintaining OS X
Good luck.
cornelius

Fonction HR_INFOTYPE_OPERATION very slow performance in bacth job

Hi all experts!
Does any one having a problem with slow performance while using the fonction HR_INFOTYPE_OPERATION and running in batch mode for a big population of data ?
I have tried to use
    nocommit         = 'X' as parameter in the fonction HR_INFOTYPE_OPERATION
and calling after each update.
    CALL FUNCTION 'BAPI_TRANSACTION_COMMIT'
      EXPORTING
        wait = 'X'.
And the performance is very long.
I also remarque that if we run for a small population like less than 500 employees then it finish within 20 mins. But If I ran for a polulation of 5000 employees then it take more than 6 hours = 3600 mins. ?
Thanks for your answer.
Hugo Nguyen

Call Function module 'HR_PSBUFFER_INITIALIZE' After each call to HR_INFOTYPE_OPERATION.
Refer [link|http://brookshireconsulting.com/technical_update.html] for more information.
I have tried it my own and it do improve the performance,.
Hope this improves the performace for you as well.
Regards
Shital

Very, very slow performance

Lightroom's performance on my computer has become, at times, intolerably slow. After rebooting my iMac and not opening any other programs or browsers, it just took about eight minutes to import 23 files, and a few more minutes to build 1:1 previews. When things are running fine this might take one minute. (I always build 1:1 previews on import and this happens with recently imported files as well as older ones, so it's not a question of having to build previews on the fly.) I've had extremely slow performance ("Loading") just moving from one photo to another in the Library and Develop modules or moving from one module to another, typically up to about 90 seconds, or when LR is "preparing the file" for export or edit in PS. But not always -- sometimes it's quite zippy -- and there's no pattern that I can see. Generally when this is occurring, memory "pressure" and CPU usage are normal, but it happens when usage is minimal as well. Occasionally there is a spinning beach ball but not usually.
My catalog has about 30k photos and very few presets of any kind. Probably 75% of these files have never been edited at all. I don't make hundreds of local adjustment, rarely more than ten in one image. I have about 40 Smart Collections with an average of several hundred images each. I rarely use Smart Previews. I optimize and back up the catalog every time I exit LR, which is a few times a week. My file/folder structure is simple and clean: /Pictures/year/day.
I'm running LR 5.4 on a mid-2011 iMac, 3.4 GHz Intel Core i7, with 16GB of memory. I have the Lightroom catalog and previews on the main drive, which is a 250GB SSD with about 100GB free. (Problem happened when my catalog was on different internal drive, too.) My pictures folder is on an internal drive with over 100GB available. I have the maximum cache size set to 50GB. I'm running Mavericks but it was just as slow under Mountain Lion. It was just as slow in earlier versions of Lightroom, major and minor. Other programs/apps run just fine on my computer, including Photoshop. (Generally, LR's performance is the same whether or not PS is running.) The only performance issue I've noticed since switching to Mavericks is that Finder stalls for several seconds every once in a while.
I've seen this Lightroom problem referred to on various forums, including Adobe forums, for a long time now -- years -- and I've never seen a definitive fix. I think I've answered all of the questions that are usually asked. Is there any solution to this? I use LR 30-40 hours per week. I'm tearing my hair out and the option of moving to another program would be the very last resort, but I might have to do that.

I don't use your same workflow, and I assume you're shooting RAW. However, after I have built 1:1 previews in LR (which takes a LONG time), when I click on a file to decide if it's sharp or not, it still takes 5-10 seconds for each file to load. And my computer isn't slow, and I have the same issue on my laptop, which is new and fast. I haven't seen a satisfactory answer to this problem, nor much acknowledgement from Adobe. My files are from a Nikon D7100 with 24 megapixels, so the file size is likely a factor.
If you are shooting the type of subjects where you use 1:1 previews primarily to determine sharpness, you could consider Photo Mechanic (unfortunately it costs $150) as the first step in your workflow. It uses the embedded jpg files in the RAW file, so it loads 1:1 jpg previews almost instantly. Sports and nature photographers use this product all the time, mostly to delete losers.

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