How about a sign that images are loading?

I am a user of Elements 8.0 for image cateloging and some light editing and CS4 for major editing. I think I'm going to switch from Elements to LR 3.
When I try to load existing pictures on my hard drive (about 60 GB), I get no sign from LR 3 that the images are loading. After a LONG time, I give up waiting and close the program. Then I get a message telling me it's still loading pictures. Now I just load them in small batches, maybe 100 pictures at a time. Still no sign the program is doing anything, but the pictures load quickly so I know something is happening. Loading 16,000 some images a hundred or two at a time will be time consuming.
I recommend an hour-glass, or better yet, a bar graph showing something is happeing on how long it may lake to load pictures. Kind of like when you burn a DVD or CD from Elements. At least you know your computer hasn't crashed.
Program looks pretty good otherwise.
Mike Davis

That will require some javascript and depending on the current slide script you use, that may be more difficult than it's worth.
First, make sure your images are saved at their display size. If you have a 3000x3000 pixel image downsized to 150x150 in the html, it still loads like a 3000x3000 image (very slowly on low speed connections). Downsize the image to the actual viewed size you intend to use, you can drop MB files to a couple KB.
Next, optimize the images using Photoshops Save for Web feature Ctrl + Alt/Cmnd + Shift + S or File > Save for Web.
When the SFW dialogue box appears, there will be the options: Original Optimized 2-Up and 4-Up across the top.
Opening the 4-Up tab allows you to have 4 versions of the image displayed. Click on any given image and change the settings on the right of the dialogue window. Reduce the settings to the lowest possible, while still appearing "good" to you.
With that "lowest good" window selected (black outline around it), click Save and that optimized version will be the copy you get. This can drop a several hundred KB file to just a handful of KB, making your images load almost instantly, no more white box.

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