On May 29, 2012, at 5:08 AM, Bruce Walker wrote: > I wish it were so simple, Tim. > > Yes, I'm using an older machine: a 2008 iMac, 2.4 GHz Core 2 Duo. But > it has 6 Gig RAM, and I was running Lr with no other apps up (not even
That sounds very much like my machine. > a browser), and I was watching the Activity monitor. There was plenty > of RAM, the disks weren't all that busy, my catalog is on the local > drive while the image files are on an external 2TB 800 MHz Firewire > drive. Very similar to my setup. 2.4 GHz core 2 duo iMac, of about the same vintage, 6GB ram, external drive, catalog on the internal drive. > > The other maddening thing is that one time I fired up Lr 4 it was > quite perky. Sliders were smooth acting and responsive. But 3 of 4 > times launching it, it's crazy sluggish. I've definitely noticed the machine is getting slower, but not unusably so. I do split my work into a smaller working catalog, and the big everything catalog. I'd very much like to fork my working catalog, and make a newer, smaller version. Unfortunately, I can't figure out how to do that without losing all the Publish Services that I've set up. One annoyance is that the JF facebook plug-in doesn't work. The FB plugin that comes with LR4 works pretty well though, except for the bit where it'll take a minute or so to actually do something once I click on "create a collection". > > Almost nothing worse than inconsistency. > > > On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 9:15 PM, Tim Bray <tb...@textuality.com> wrote: >> I upgraded to a slightly-faster computer with 8G of RAM and it was >> like night and day. We’ll never go back to the halcyon days of >> Lightroom 1 (now *that* was fast), but it’s perfectly acceptable; you >> just need more memory. -T >> >> On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 6:11 PM, Bruce Walker <bruce.wal...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> I don't understand why nobody has posted here about Lightroom 4 being >>> so dog-slow. >>> >>> I upgraded on the weekend, went through the process of familiarizing >>> myself with the new Develop sliders and became comfortable that its >>> functionally a Good Thing. >>> >>> But: good gawd almighty is it slow! Every time I attempt to shift a >>> slider I get a spinning pizza of death for many seconds. Sometimes I >>> get the SPoD by simply moving the cursor a short distance. It's so >>> damned frustrating, I'm starting to regret this "upgrade" and begin >>> finding out how I can go back to Lr 3.6. >>> >>> Of course I Googled and discovered that legions of people are >>> complaining about the very same thing. Dammit! >>> >>> Oh, then there's the issue where it warns me about incompatibilities >>> with Ps CS5 now. They upgraded Camera RAW to 7.0, conveniently leaving >>> CS5 at the final version of 6.7 with no hope of an upgrade. Nobody >>> warned me that upgrading Lr to 4 meant automatically upgrading Ps to >>> 6! Shit. >>> >>> Fairly pissed at Adobe right now. >>> >>> -- >>> -bmw >>> >>> -- >>> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >>> PDML@pdml.net >>> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >>> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >>> follow the directions. >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> PDML@pdml.net >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. > > > > -- > -bmw > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- Larry Colen l...@red4est.com sent from i4est -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
