Lightroom 6.2 and 6.2.1: Are just awful - unusable . . . .

Hi Steve, have you tried restoring your prefs after the update and quit/relaunch Lightroom? http://blogs.adobe.com/lightroomjourn...

I'm having similar issues. Ditto on metadata filter as Steve mentions above. Activity Monitor on my 2015 MacBook Pro is pegged at 90% every time I open Lightroom now (6.2.1). It slows down to a crawl...to the point it is a useless tool.

Other examples - I did a B&W conversion and the color sliders would not show up...had to reboot. I attempted to use the clone tool and I could not get the tool to actually move beyond the tool tray on the right and onto the photo...had to reboot.
I'm letting LR idle in the back ground as I type...it's pegged at 95.2 CPU Utilization.

Painful.

Just tried restoring preferences...did not help. Now I've got to do more work to get it back to the way I want it. Also, appears keyword tags are missing...not sure if its simply lagging or it below them all away :-/

Super, super pissed.

I have a very similar problem with the Lightroom CC 2015.2.1 release. After I open it, I have about 20 seconds where it will respond very quickly to every action, then all of sudden, it has been slowing down to an extreme crawl.

In activity Monitor, Lightroom is taking between 90 and 121% of CPU

Also - I don't see the film strip at the bottom any longer. The space for it is there on my screen, but no images appear.

Quitting and re-starting fixes the issue for 20 seconds. Although this last time that I tried quitting, it took all night to have the Lightroom screen disappear, but the icon is still present in the Mac list of running apps, and it hasn't quit. But the icon is not showing up as an "unresponsive application" in the Force Quit dialog.

I am running this on a newest version MacBook Pro with El Capitan. My catalog is set to export the XMP files as soon as I make a change.

I have found a cure for the problem on my machine. I had to completely uninstall Lightroom, and the delete the presets as part of the uninstall. Then re-install. I am using El Capitan, which is apparently part of the problem. I found this fix on the Lightroom Killer Tips site which has a video of how to do this if it is not clear. The uninstall program is in the Lightroom Folder, inside of Applications on a Mac.

I hope this helps others!

The latest Lightroom is absolutely unusable. All operations, including applying presets during import or simply adding keywords, are so sluggish that I simply give up. Unless a new version of this bloatware radically improves the performance I will have to look for an alternative.

Lightroom 6.2.1, Windows 10/64, 16GB RAM, 1TB with 300GB free, i7 Intel CPU, Intel GPU (disabled for now).
LR 6.2.1 is a mess. I'm unable to work other than extremely slowly. I can't believe this update passed any sort of QA.

Adobe: I strongly suggest you find as many of these complaints as you can, then add us to your beta process prior to the next general update release.

Truly terrible...

I was able to solve that same problem by doing a complete uninstall including deleting all preferences, and then re-installing.

Forcing the customer to downgrade from existing 6.2 is not a fix but rather an inconvenience. Adobe makes us the Beta tester and what is our reward? Software that is broken. Unacceptable and a lawsuit waiting to happen. Its been 3 weeks and what have we heard from Adobe?? Crickets...........

Is anyone also having jerky "crop angle" movements? This is a nightmare.