mitchell Posted July 23, 2007 Share #1 Â Posted July 23, 2007 Advertisement (gone after registration) I hope you can help. I have an upcoming show and need to select and print images. Â Lightroom is running very slowly, as is Aperture Trial, and PS CS3 Bridge. Lightroon is all I really need, but the problem is there with all of them. Â I have a Dual 2 GHz Power PC with 3GB Ram, and a 150 GB Hard Disk. Â The Disk is has 8.5 GB free. Â When Lightroom starts up even before I ask it to do anything, it uses 50, 80, or 105% of the CPU capacity. Right now it is using 105%, but not indicating its doing anything. 3GB of System Memory are free. Â I get a almost constant revolving beach balls when I actually do something. I've had a few messages saying LR is looking at files. Â I have all my image files on the desk top. I have some very big folders full of smaller folders. Â Lightroom seems to always be doing something, but I don't know what. Â Any help greatly appreciated. Â Best, Â Mitchell Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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jlancasterd Posted July 23, 2007 Share #2  Posted July 23, 2007 I hope you can help. I have an upcoming show and need to select and print images. Lightroom is running very slowly, as is Aperture Trial, and PS CS3 Bridge. Lightroon is all I really need, but the problem is there with all of them.  I have a Dual 2 GHz Power PC with 3GB Ram, and a 150 GB Hard Disk.  The Disk is has 8.5 GB free.  When Lightroom starts up even before I ask it to do anything, it uses 50, 80, or 105% of the CPU capacity. Right now it is using 105%, but not indicating its doing anything. 3GB of System Memory are free.  I get a almost constant revolving beach balls when I actually do something. I've had a few messages saying LR is looking at files.  I have all my image files on the desk top. I have some very big folders full of smaller folders.  Lightroom seems to always be doing something, but I don't know what.  Any help greatly appreciated.  Best,  Mitchell  This sounds like an overful hard disk and/or memory. Have you tried emptying your trash?  Another problem is that Lightroom seems to be particularly hungry for hard disk space - have you tried deleting any images that you have finished working on? Having seen a similar problem developing on my own MAC, I now store my RAW images on DVDs and external hard disks and only load those that I am working on onto the computer's HD. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lesh Posted July 23, 2007 Share #3 Â Posted July 23, 2007 I suppose you've tried obvious things like running Disk Utility to keep OSX running well? Otherwise maybe also have Lightroom check the database integrity on startup. Look at Lightroom help, as I recall there are some ways to optimize running speed. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mitchell Posted July 23, 2007 Author Share #4 Â Posted July 23, 2007 Thanks John and Les. Â I seem to have solved the problem. I used "Optimize Database" and I turned off "Auto Write to XMP." Â Lightroom is this moment using 0.20% of my CPU instead of 50 or 105. Â Best, Â Mitchell Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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