Laura Fitch
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Asher, do you think this will fix my issue of LR 4 running so slowly?
Asher, do you think this will fix my issue of LR 4 running so slowly?
Laura
let's be serious, if you're a pro user of Macs and high res images and if you want fast workflow:
go to LR5 (much faster than 4)
get more ram (a lot!)
very fats disk and scratch disks (SSDs are the best)
Asher
I don't care about the beauty of the machine, and yes, the plugs are a hassle, but the power is there.
You're right, no need of such power if you handle 20 Mb jpegs… but is you have to work on 500 raw files of 80 MB at a time, each second gained by file is a relief…
LR4 or LR5 works on all recent machines. It just needs Ram and processor raw force.
Albeit V5 is much faster.
My biggest waste of time is for processing images. I want to move away from stitching, relighting in photoshop and removing imperfections in skin.
In summary, clean out junk, free up memory, (limit start up items) and use an SSD card with, if you can, every other program turned off, the desktop clear and no other windows open.
Asher
Thanks, Asher. I don't have cluttered drives (I use AppDelete and am pretty fastidious about that), I keep my applications on my main drive and my files on a separate drive but I do sometimes have a browser open at the same time I'm working in LR. I would hope that wouldn't make a big difference, though.
I have used 110GB of my 500GB main drive and 960GB of my 2TB file/document drive. My LR photo library probably does have a number of photos I could delete but I don't think I have a really large image library compared to many others. Currently I have 58,362 photo files taking up about 588GB according to my Mac.
I didn't have any complaints until I upgraded to LR 4 so I'm starting to think my main problem might be that I use a dual-core Mac instead of a newer quad. Bummer.
Mavericks may be perfect for the latest tower,
A good link for anyone with an old Mac Pro they want to breathe new life into: http://www.imore.com/how-breathe-new-life-dying-mac-pro
Unless, like me, you have the 2006 MacPro 1,1:
"First off, if you have a first or second generation Mac Pro (identified as "MacPro1,1" and "MacPro2,1" in the System Information app), you're a bit stuck in the past. Neither of those machines has 64-bit EFI firmware, necessary to install Mountain Lion. That means the newest operating system software you'll ever be able to run is Lion, and the newest app software you can run will need to be Lion-compatible.
That's not a show-stopping problem for most people today, but more and more apps are optimized for Mountain Lion and the capabilities introduced therein. What comes after Mountain Lion will get into developers' hands next month at WWDC, and that's going to create further difficulty down the line. So if you haven't already started saving up for a new machine, get cracking, because the time is coming soon to put out old Bessie to pasture."