That sounds like the .LRCAT file needs to be cleaned up or the .LRPDATA repository needs to be regenerated. My working catalog now manages 96,000 image files, mostly raw data, with good performance.
Godfrey On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 9:03 AM, Charles Robinson <charl...@visi.com> wrote: > On May 30, 2012, at 10:43, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: > >> Been testing it since it released. >> >> Seems much improved performance, certainly over the original LR4 >> release, but also over the LR4.1RC2 version. The interface seems to >> smoothly and without the momentary hesitations that I was seeing with >> RC2. >> > > I was good with RC2, but I got a lot of spinny rainbows once I loaded 4.1 > official. :-( > > I tested something - I exported just my 2012 images (2000 or so) into a new > catalog. > > My new catalog loads (firing up LR4 with that as my last-opened catalog) in > about 8 seconds and is snappy. > > My other catalog (approx 70,000 images) loads in 2.5 MINUTES and gives me > many spinny rainbows as I move about. > > I guess for now I'll just have a cumulative/merged catalog for when I need to > dig into the archives, and a "current" catalog for getting work done in a > reasonable timeframe. > > -Charles > > -- > Charles Robinson - charl...@visi.com > Minneapolis, MN > http://charles.robinsontwins.org > http://www.facebook.com/charles.robinson > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- Godfrey godfreydigiorgi.posterous.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
