Lightroom 3.2 is really crab

Sorry to say that, but for me LR 3.2 is unusable:
- I have around 5000NEFs in my catalog. Actually I have 400 NEFs in the current project to work. When you walk through the project
by using the filmstripe and you'll have to inspect some photos the loading time for the photo to shop up fully around 2 minutes,
zooming in 30sec zooming out 30 sec, clicking next photo shows no reaction for some time.
- if you walk through that without doing anything else you can see how your main memory is eaten up. I have 8Gb of memory
and after 45 min I have to quit LR and restart it.
- it really gets worst if you need to edit one of your photos: All edit functions don't react immediately. If you use the brush
it took 16 sec until the menu shows up. If you try to use brush you think nothing is happen. Suddenly after 30 sec you
recognize that eventually something might have happen. When you have to control points of the brush in your photo and
you have to control the mask nothing happens after you click the grey point. It took 30 sec to show the mask. If you
click the other grey point it took 15 sec until the red mask from the first point vanished and another 15 sec until the second
mask shows up. There have been times when the edit functions worked in real time so you saw what you were doing.
- it the same behaviour for mostly all edit functions.
My machince is an iMac i5 27" with 8Gb ram. Local disk is used, all points regarding performance have been checked so far.
Catalogue optimized, preview database deleted etc. So I think that machine should be capable to handle LR3. I mean no
other software produces this mass on my computer.
It's really a pitty because LR3 was on the right way regarding the development module together with the Nikon camera profiles v2
which produced close results no capture nx2.

Oh, Come on, stop this bashing. First of I assume you mean crap, not crab, the delicious seafood. And second: I have been a LR user for many years, it is a brilliant program getting more brilliant with every version and as a photographer who really focuses on an efficient workflow, I couldn't live without it anymore.
Of course there are bugs. Show me the software that hasn't any, although many problems I read in this forum come from inexperience.
As an everyday tool it is very usable and indispensable for any serious production environment.

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