On Dec 6, 2011, at 12:49, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: > Have you tried selecting everything, then exporting the whole catalog > to a new catalog?
Yup, he tried that first. > How large are the master files? What kind of files are they ... raw, > JPEG, TIFF, PSD? JPEG for the everything from 1998-2008, Canon RAW files for the rest (so about 70% JPEG, 30% RAW). > Are the masters on the same volume as the catalog folder? How much > free space is on the volume? He's running this on a laptop so it's all on one disk. Free space is about 200 gigs - but again, the same catalog on an almost-identical Macbook (mine has about 100gigs free) loads in the same loooooooong time - 15-20 minutes. So the problem *seems* to follow the catalog. > How big is the Camera Raw cache? (LR Prefernces- file handling tab) 20 gigs, I think? > > My "in progress" catalog has 78,000+ photos in it now. The .LRCAT file > is about 1.5G in size. It's on the internal drive of my MacBook Pro > 13" (2.4Ghz, 8G RAM, running Mac OS X "Lion", with about 130G free on > the startup volume and a 10G camera raw cache). Takes about minute to > load. > You and me both. I have no performance issues whatsoever with my library of similar size. He's stumped. So am I! When he exports images to separate catalogs by year (2001, 2002, 2003) and opens each of those individually, they all open quickly and well. When he starts adding things together by combining catalogs, he eventually hits a point where it is non-functional again. Last time he tried this, it was good until he added his "2007" export back into the fold. But deleting everything from 2007 out of that new library and re-optimizing did not get the performance back. He had to start over. Weird. -Charles -- Charles Robinson - [email protected] Minneapolis, MN http://charles.robinsontwins.org http://www.facebook.com/charles.robinson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
