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Mon, Dec 2, 2019 12:21 PM
Lightroom Classic 8: Previews catalog problem
I have an Imac Pro 32 gb of memory and a 1tb ssd internal hard drive. I have a 16tb external thunderbolt hard drive. I updated to LR9, but was having lots of problems...called support and was escalated to a senior tech. He reverted me to LR8.4.1. Running good, but I had to recreate my previews catalog. So far I have created 1:1 previews of 100,000 of my photos. the catalog is 1.4tb. It took 4 days to create these previews. When it was finished I closed LR to have it do a backup. The first part went well but it bogged down when it started to optimize the previews catalog. After 8 hours I called support and was told to be patient as it was a large catalog. At 24 hours I got intermittent messages that LR was not responding. At 30 hours I got a message that my system resources were at a critical stage and I needed to exit LR. I called support this morning and was told that they would have a senior tech call me this week. Seriously.
I can run LR, but am not sure that the 1:1 previews are accurate because I had to interrupt the optimization.
Does anyone have any suggestions or thoughts on what my next step should be?
Thanks for any help.
I can run LR, but am not sure that the 1:1 previews are accurate because I had to interrupt the optimization.
Does anyone have any suggestions or thoughts on what my next step should be?
Thanks for any help.
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Johan_Elzenga
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Lightroom can and will rebuild any preview that it needs. There is no reason for you to build thousands of 1:1 previews. Let Lightroom build them if and when it needs them. A 1:1 preview is only needed when you zoom into 1:1 to check things like sharpness and noise. It is not needed for day to day work with your images. Lightroom will keep the previews up to date.
Johan W. Elzenga,
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