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We just bought Lightroom 2 and are trying to upgrade from 1.4. When we launch lightroom 2 and go to convert the version 1 catalogs, we are experiencing tremendously long conversion times and the application goes in and out of "not responding" spinning beach ball states. Eventually the catalog will convert, but upon re-opening Lightroom it similarly takes anywhere from 15-20 minutes to open, with bouts of "application not responding" in the force quit area and spinning beach ball. It will eventually open, but obviously this isn't practical for use.
We have tried this on numerous version 1 catalogs, and on 3 different Macintoshes, one running 10.6.3, the other 2 10.5.8. I have tried to delete the previews, as I said moved to different machines, reinstall, etc. If I create a brand new catalog and import photos into it, all is good--performance seems fine, etc. I am currently attempting to create a new catalog and then import from a converted catalog, but I am having the application hangs during the process as before.
The catalog in question is around 37000 photos, but as I have read in the forums, it seems like that isn't really an issue. Particularly when the behavior in version 1.4 was perfectly acceptable and did not have the application hangs.
All machines in question are Intel-based MacPro's or iMacs with at least 4-6G of RAM.
Any ideas?
Thanks,
Brian

The Previews 'folder' often appears as a file, but on one of my Macs, it 'is' a folder, but in any event, you did it by deleting the .lrdata file. (You can use Show Package contents on that file and it'll open just like any folder.)
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