![]() ![]() (8) You Have Lots of Presets and The Preset Preview Turned On Turn it off by going to the Lightroom menu (PC: Edit menu), go Catalog Settings click the Metadata tab, and turn off the checkbox beside “Automatically write changes into XMP” (as shown above). Imagine how that would slow Lightroom down? Well, if you have this turned on, you’re living that speed hit all day every day. Imagine if every time you moved a slider, Lightroom had to write that change into a separate text file. ( 7) You have “Automatically write changes into XMP” turned on Go to Lightroom’s File menu and choose Optimize Catalog (as shown above). ![]() This is easy to do, and could very well make a difference. (6) You haven’t Optimized your catalog in a while (or ever) ![]() You can’t expect Lightroom to run at full speed on an old outdated computer (and yes, if your computer is four or five years old, it’s outdated). (5) Your computer is more than four or five years oldĬomputer years are close to dog years, and your old computer probably runs like our doggo here. Go to the Help menu and choose Updates (as seen above) to start the process. If you haven’t updated in a while, it’s time. They keep tweaking the speed of about everything in Lightroom. ( 4) You are not on a recent version of Lightroom Classic If you don’t have at least 20% of your overall storage space free, that’s affecting your Lightroom’s performance, so free up some space asap. TIP :Lightroom requires lots of free space on your hard drive. When you order your next computer (of it you can upgrade) get fast SSD drives – the difference is pretty amazing. Having a really fast drives make a big difference, so if you saved a few dollars buying a cheaper, slower drive, now you’re paying the price. Yes, technically, Lightroom’s minimum requirement is 12 MB of RAM, but 16 is what Adobe recommends for a reason. Here’s a post I did on how to move your catalog back to your computer. Things will run much faster with those files right on your main internal hard drive. It’s fine for photos to be stored on an external hard drive (in fact, I recommend it), but not your Lightroom Catalog file or previews files. Lightroom should actually be pretty zipping, and if it’s not - it’s probably one of these EIGHT things you can do to make it zippy again: ( 1) Your Lightroom Catalog is not on your computer I’m posting this for my friend, Hans, who last night (while we’re playing Call of Duty Warzone) is telling me how’s he struggling with his Lightroom running crazy slow, and I know he’s not alone. ![]()
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