Without knowing anything else about the problem, and assuming you're
going to continue to work in these volumes in the future, I would
suggest that you install as much physical memory in this computer as you
can. Lightroom is an Adobe product and Adobe is not known for efficient
use of memory but is well known for memory leaks (ie; not cleaning up
and releasing the memory they just used and are now finished with). I
would also be very nervous about any process that runs for days being
error free. I hope you made a backup (or two) before you started this
process. Memory is cheap (unless you buy from Apple) and I'm pretty
confident it will help considerably... at least for this process. There
are also probably Lightroom configuration changes you can make that will
help.
Chuck Norcutt (Lightroom owner but not user)
On 1/31/2014 2:23 PM, Jez Cunningham wrote:
> Not really enough detail to understand what you're doing to be able to
> offer any helpful suggestions. Like... are external or network disks
> involved, is there any search/indexing service running, do you have a lot
> of preview files in the catalog, do you store the edits in the LR database
> or in external (xmp) files, ...
> I think you just gotta wait.
> What was it about Krogh's book that led you to want to split the catalog?
> good luck
> Jez
>
>
> On 31 January 2014 14:43, Tina Manley <images@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> PESO:
>>
>> I haven't commented on photos lately because I can't get to them. My main
>> computer is tied up with LR. After reading Peter Krogh's latest book on
>> digital management, I decided to divide my photos into two LR catalogs
>> instead of one huge one. I made one for Archive photos and kept the
>> original catalog for Current photos. That part went fine. Then I had to
>> remove all of the Archive photos from the the Current catalog. LR worked
>> on it for two days, I left it working when I went to Charleston. When I
>> came back it was 88% finished, but I got a notice that my computer was
>> dangerously low on memory and was shutting down. I had to start all over
>> again. Now it's been working for three days and is 85% finished. I have
>> shut down everything else on the computer, including e-mail. I'm using my
>> little Acer netbook for e-mail. LR is using 99% of the physical memory -
>> 8GB. I had over 500,000 photos in the one catalog and am trying to remove
>> 175,000. I guess I should have done it in smaller amounts.
>>
>> The Acer is too small and slow to look at photos, but I'll catch up
>> someday.
>>
>> Any suggestions besides throwing the computer out the window would be
>> greatly appreciated. I can't even download the photos I took in
>> Charleston!!
>>
>> Tina
>> .
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