Lightroom 5 amazingly slow to import catalog

updated yesterday from LR 5 beta on my Win 8 machine.
LR 5 took over 8 hours to update the LR 4 catalog, and has taken another 8 hours (so far) to import the photos. It looks to be about 2/3 done as i write.
i'm confused about why this process is taking so extraordinarily long. Can anyone enlighten me?

mnashp wrote:
thanks Jim. I wish there had been instructions, or if there were, i had actually read them.
I understand. I've been making this point about the loss of Publish Services on an "Import from another Catalog" at every opportunity since LR5 was released. I even contributed to Victoria Bampton's blog post about upgrading catalogs into LR5:
http://www.lightroomqueen.com/2013/06/12/confused-upgrade-catalog-lightroom-5/
Just wish perhaps Adobe would include something along these lines in their documentation.

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Lightroom crashes, won't import catalog

I added a couple of pictures to a collection via "drag and drop". I selected one and opened the Develop window and got a message something like "unexpected error". I exited Lightroom and restarted. While Lightroom is initializing and has drawn all the windows I get the Microsoft Dialog "Adobe Photoshop Lightroom has encountered a problem". Dismissing that I get a Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime Library error "The exception unknown software error (0x0000015) occurred in the application at location 0x605dabf6. Click OK to terminate the program. Then I get a dialog Program E:\Prog... R6025 - Pure virtual function call". When I click OK Lightroom goes away.
I restarted and held down the CTRL key. I then let Lightroom test the integrity of the database. That finished successfully, but Lightroom then crashed the same as above.
I then restarted and held down the CTRL key again. I created a new catalog and Lightroom came up correctly. I then tried to import the old catalog. I get a Warning dialog "Cannot import from this catalog at this time. The catalog is either in use by another copy of Lightroom or was closed improperly. If it was closed improperly, please consider doing an integrity check when opening".
There's no other copy of Lightroom running. I rebooted. I did the integrity check and it seemed to pass. So I'm stuck at my end. I'd rather not lose the whole day's work if I could avoid it. I do have a backup from yesterday, but I'm hoping there's another solution.

Lacking any other alternative, I tried to restart Lightroom the next morning with the intent of looking for other options, and it opened without complaint and all was well.
I'm glad it worked, but it doesn't make me feel real comfortable about the program.
Bill

Lightroom 5 is quite slow in importing photos

Lightroom 5 is quite slow in importing photos from a memory card connected to a reader using USB 3.0! After installing LR5, I didn't change any default settings. Interestingly, this wasn't found in beta testing. LR4 was what I call quick or snappy. Because of LR5's slow performance, I went back to LR4 after paying for the Cloud subscription.
With substantial difficulty and after some time passed, I eventually was able to speak to Support which offered no fix for this issue. I hope that it can be resolved soon.

Selecting the Import from below in Files does help speed up the start of the Import as mentioned in the thread you referred to but is still maybe three or so times slower than in LR4. At least it makes using LR5 more bearable.
Thanks.

Backing up catalog from inside of lightroom extremely slow (30 min)

I have a catalog that is just under 5gb, if I navigate to the folder where it is stored and copy paste it onto my backup drive it copies in under 2 min. However, if I chose to backup my catalog on exit from inside lightroom it takes over 30 minutes (not counting testing etc). Obviously I can backup my catalog manually, but it would be nice if the built in backup feature worked like it's supposed to.
I'm running win 7 64
lightroom 64 same probelm in 4.3 and 4.4
the catalog and lightroom are stored on a ssd drive
backing up to a NAS ( my typical transfer speeds are 60-80 MB/s)
Thanks for any thoughts
-Dan

I tried to the local ssd with only a small improvement. Like I said, if I navigate to the catalog manually and copy and paste it to the NAS it takes under 2 minutes... (80+ MB/s), but done through lightroom it just crawls. Lightroom either has a bug, or it's doing something much more than just copying the catalog to the selected directory. I've tried it with and with out check and optimize.
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A 5 GB Lr catalog is a hefty catalog. But 30 min seems a bit long even for that. I suspect that the NAS drive or its connection speed are slowing things down.Try this: Create a catalog backup from within Lr to an internal drive to check whether that will speed up the process.
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Lightroom affected by size of catalog?

Well to all those who simply could not accept that there was something wrong with Lightroom 4, take a look at Lightroom 5 beta. It simply ROCKETS along on my machine. The way it works is exactly how LR 4 should have worked. The fact Adobe have released 5 beta so quickly tells me they were simply generating revenue, as this release, and the new tools in it, is really what LR 4 should have been.
Anyway, I imported about 4,000 images and made it into a catalogue to test the beta. The best tool is the healing brush, fantastic! However when I made a new catalog and imported all of it's 37,000 images, there was a significant slowdown. I remember a couple of years ago with v3.6 asking if catalog size affected performance and was assured it didn't. Well my simple test shows it does, although there could be a different reason. I'd love to hear someone else's take on that?
As an aside, you can't use a v4 catalog they say so I had to make a new one. Presets etc work fine, but in my v4 catalog I have a lot of images flagged, and some in smart collections. Is there any easy way to replicate these does anyone know?

Most operations in Lightroom are not affected by the number of images in the catalog. You didn't say what parts of Lightroom are slow.

Can I import catalog photos from a usb drive?

I have imported photos from a catalog into a new catalog. Some of the photos in the catalog are located on a remote drive. The drive is not listed when I select the photos to be imported. Is it possible to import catalog photos from a usb drive?
Howie

Hi Keith,
"Import from another catalog" is a selection found in the Lightroom "File" drop down listing. Sorry I wasn't clear in my reguest. I have used this function to import photos in to my new Catalog from my old Catalog. During the import process, Lightroom creates a working catalog from which photos can be selected. A file list on the left side of the window displays the available hard drive folders. Once the photos to be extracted are selected the source folder is checked. The import button, on the bottom right of the window, is highlited to execute the import function. Since the external USB hard drive is not listed, the import function is not available.
My question: how do I enable the import from my USB drive? Perhaps I will have to move the files back onto my internal hard drive using my Lightroom's old catalog.
Howie

Lightroom 5.4 problem importing older crw and nef files

Built new computer. Fresh install of Photoshop Lightroom 5.4. Imported photos to lightroom 5.4. After import session completed noted some folders in catalog had zero photos. Checked folders in explorer and photos/files are present. Able to open and view photos/files in Photoshop cs5.
Files are raw files format from canon G1 CRW and Nikon d70 NEF.
Any ideas? How do I proceed? Should I download and install the free Adobe DNG Converter? But these are old cameras?
thanks

Thanks for the reply. No the files were not list in a LR Catalog anywhere on the computer. I was able to import the missing files by right clicking on the empty folder in the LR Catalog, selected the import to folder option. This opened the import LR Window, I deselected the "duplicate option" . This allowed the files to become visible, not the usual grayed out thumbnails usually seen if attempting to import a duplicate. Once I selected the raw files LR imported them to the folder. I did get a LR message stating that a "smart preview already was present for files.
If LR was able to verify a smart preview for the files from a previous import, why were the folders in LR displaying a 0 for files/photos?
I am in the process of reviewing the LR Catalog to ensure everything was imported.

Aperture 3 slow to import

Why is Aperture 3 so slow to import! It can take five minutes to recognise just a few images on the Desktop and the fan whirls. This must be a bug!

Has anyone successfully migrated back to Aperture 2? Or would be going to Lightroom 2 be easier. I have by this point wasted too much of my life on Aperture 3. I have been using Aperture 3 on both Leopard then Snow Leopard on a very high-end Mac configuration (over 10 TB disk, for example) and I've seen it take 30 minutes to import 3 images from an iPhone. And that's not unusual – over the past few weeks I've grown to expect that. Also, is it just me or is Faces terrible at differentiating faces? It's great at figuring out what a face is, but it makes ridiculous guesses about whose face it is. It doesn't seem to work nearly as well as iPhoto when it first got face recognition technology. I think Apple needed to publicly beta-test AP3 like Adobe has done with each LR release. AP3 is completely pathetic and disappointing. Any professional user would be out of business by now.

Import catalog from PSE 8 to LR2

Just purchased LR2 and it won't recognize my PSE 8 catalog. It found an outdated
PSE 6 catalog that it offered to import. Is there a way to get my PSE 8 catalog imported?
LR 3 beta appears to read PSE 8 catalogs, can I read a LR 3 catalog with LR 2 if I download
the LR 3 beta and import the catalog using that?
Is there a way to export the PSE 8 catalog into a PSE 6 format?
I suppose I can go with the old PSE 6 catalog, that will be better than nothing, but still a lot
of work I'd rather avoid.
Thanks,
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At this time, LR2 does not import PSE7 or PSE8 catalogs.
Lightroom 3 can read PSE8 catalogs, but you can't convert that Lightroom 3 catalog to anything else.
So there is no way to convert your PSE8 catalog to Lightroom 2.
A partial workaround is to use John R Ellis's psedbtool to write metadata to your photo files, and then import the files into Lightroom 2. Some information will be lost under this method: stacks, albums, and any other information that cannot be stored in the photo files.

Lightroom 4 won't import or playback video

Hi. I previously submitted this question last year for Lightroom 4.1 (http://forums.adobe.com/thread/1045374). I never did get any responses.
Since then, I tried formatting and re-installing my OS (OS X 10.7). There was a brief window at that time when Lightroom was able to import and playback video files. Then I made the mistake of re-installing Photoshop CS6 (because it frequently forgets that I'm a registered and licensed user of the program and reverts to Trial mode, which is very annoying) because I read on a forum somewhere that that would help. Since then, Lightroom has stopped being able to import videos or play back any videos that I have in my catalog. I am now up to Lightroom 4.4 on OS X 10.8. Here is the system info screen from Lightroom. If anyone has any suggestions for how to fix this, I'd appreciate it.
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Virtual memory used by Lightroom: 1314.9 MB
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Maximum thread count used by Camera Raw: 4
Displays: 1) 2560x1440
Application folder: /Applications
Library Path: /Users/phoenix/Pictures/Lightroom/General/Lightroom 4 Catalog.lrcat
Settings Folder: /Users/phoenix/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Lightroom
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AudioDeviceName: Built-in Output
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AudioDeviceSampleRate: 44100
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GL_BLUE_BITS: 8
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Try setting your camera's USB-mode to <Mass Storage>.

Lightroom does not display imported folders in correct location

Hello,
OS X Yosemite 10.10.1
Lightroom 5.7
In Lightroom, I try to import photos and store them in a folder named by date. All import settings are configured in such a way that Lightroom indicates that my photos will be imported as I want them to be.
Lightroom creates the folder in the correct location on disk.
However Lightroom does not display the newly created folder in the correct location after import, instead it adds the folders to the top level of my catalogue.
I've triedimporting from both from my cameras card and from a local folder, the results are the same for both methods.
Does anyone know why this is happening or do you have any tips on how I can trouble shoot this issue?
Something that may be related to this issue... while in Lightroom, if I right click the top level folder and click "Synchronize folder", Lightroom displays a dialog box indicating that there are new photos and missing photos...
"Import new photos (7934)
Remove missing photos from catalog (7931).
I have been importing photos in the same way for years. I have have upgraded Lightroom once, and I have swapped computers once.

This problem most likely occurs when there has been a case change in a path on disk. In other words (using the screenshot at the top of this post as an example), something like this:
/Users/hurley/Pictures/photographs
intentionally or unintentionally gets changed to:
/Users/hurley/Pictures/Photographs
(i.e., "photographs" was initially lowercase, but got changed to an uppercase "Photographs")
As you've discovered, Lightroom does not handle this well. You can fix the problem by completely changing the path, and then updating Lightroom with the new path. Try these steps:
1. Quit Lightroom.
2. In the Finder (i.e., on disk, not in Lightroom), alter the path that your photos are stored at. In other words (again using the screenshot at the top of this post as an example), create a new folder called "Test" inside the "Pictures" folder, and then put the "Photographs" folder inside the "Test" folder, so that the new path looks like this:
/Users/hurley/Pictures/Test/Photographs
4. Launch Lightroom. In the Folders panel in Lightroom, you should now see a question mark “?” on the “photographs” folder (and all the folders within it) because Lightroom doesn't know where they are any more.
5. Right-click on the “photographs” folder in the Folders panel in Lightroom, and choose “Find Missing Folder…” Direct Lightroom to the new location of the folder, i.e., /Users/hurley/Pictures/Test/Photographs. The folder, and the folders within it, should now be found, and the question marks should disappear from them in the Folders panel in Lightroom.
6. Now try importing again to see if the newly imported photos go into the right place.
-Ben

Import Catalog from PE7?

Does anyone know how to import a PE7 catalog into Lightroom 2.1? All it seems to want to do is import PE6 catalogs.

It should be able to import Catalog from DVD. It won't open a Catalog on Dvd, just like it won't on a network drive.
Don
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Lightroom extremely slow

I don't remember having this issue before but with lightroom 5.5, it sometimes takes 3-4 seconds between when i make an adjustment in the develop panel and seeing the result. In addition, zooming in to 100% of a raw file is extreeemeellly slow. It sometimes takes as much as 10 seconds. Im on a pretty fast computer too
Intel i5
6 Gb RAM
GeForce 630
Huh seems to be gone but it was chugging a bit in the beginning.

I tried to the local ssd with only a small improvement. Like I said, if I navigate to the catalog manually and copy and paste it to the NAS it takes under 2 minutes... (80+ MB/s), but done through lightroom it just crawls. Lightroom either has a bug, or it's doing something much more than just copying the catalog to the selected directory. I've tried it with and with out check and optimize.
Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2013 11:57:27 -0700
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A 5 GB Lr catalog is a hefty catalog. But 30 min seems a bit long even for that. I suspect that the NAS drive or its connection speed are slowing things down.Try this: Create a catalog backup from within Lr to an internal drive to check whether that will speed up the process.
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Import catalog from CD or DVD

To keep catalogs manageable I remove folders from my main file and export them to a catalog. This I then burn to DVD. Lightroom cannot open this file because it is a removable disk which cannot write changes to. Please can you add in a feature to import or load catalog from DVD?

It should be able to import Catalog from DVD. It won't open a Catalog on Dvd, just like it won't on a network drive.
Don
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Lightroom 3 Slowing Waaay Down?

Howdy!
I am an Apple Aperture user and thinking about switching to Lightroom. I downloaded the trail version and have 15 days left before I have to decide weather to buy it or not. So far all was going really great and I was convinced I needed it, until this evening when I started editing more images from a recent photoshoot. For some reason Lightroom has slowed waaaay down. I haven't installed anything new on my Mac, everything was working great previously so I am not sure what to even try and troubleshoot. My images are from a Canon 40D (or XTi) each about 10gig and all are RAW.
So far I have only imported 2116 images and if I convert my currrent Aperture library, it as 40k images I would want to move over. Of the images I have imported I have only 235 in this current folder, about 60 of those I have edited on. Some I have done some pretty extensive editing clearing up skin using a combination of the skin smoother and heal tools. A few have some artistic work on them and only a couple have I sent to an external editor to do manipulation. I have added one plugin to Lightroom LRB timelapse, and would like to add more for my Photoshelter account and more editing options.
My MacBook is running Lion, 10.7.1, has dual core 2.4 processors, 4 gigs of Ram and a 500 terribyte 7200rpm drive. I use an external 22 inch Acer monitor.
What should I try to recover the performance of Lightroom 3?

David
Can you just confirm something? You say each image is 10Gig do you mean 10Mb? You asls say you have a 500 Terrabite Hard Drive? Surely you mean 500Gb??
Check disk free disk space, you may find things are slowing because you are running out of virtual RAM (which is basically hard disk space)
I would not consider copying over all your photos again into LR. I too have Aperture and moved over to LR about 18 months ago. As a Manchester Photographer I simply find the support in the photography industry superior and most professional photographers have opted for Lightroom, although I do use Aperture on occasion for certain projects.
Lightrooms catalogues you images and leaves the originals in their orignal location
Regards
Darren

Lightroom 5 amazingly slow to import catalog

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