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Subject: [Leica] OT: Apple Mac gets grindingly slow...
From: daniel at dlridings.se (Daniel Ridings)
Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2010 13:25:28 +0100
References: <EC1497CF-54C0-470F-8636-8DFEE6A88D23@yahoo.co.uk> <AANLkTinnp8Xub0FNuQSC29DAXSuzYyf8VTLn_3ZngFYg@mail.gmail.com>

It is nice and handy under LR 3: File -> Optimize catalogue ...

Well worth the upgrade. So far all of Adobe's versions have been worth it. 
Nice.

Daniel

On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 12:47 PM, Tina Manley <images at comporium.net> 
wrote:
> I think in 2.5 it is under Edit > Catalog Preferences. ?Then when you go to
> Preferences it is in the middle of the page - optimize catalog. ?If you
> haven't optimized it, that is definitely the problem with ?your slowness.
> ?Optimizing makes a huge difference and you should do it at least once a
> week. ?You really should upgrade to 3.0, though. ?It has lots of great
> features.
>
> Tina
>
> On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 5:34 AM, Peter Cheyne <geordiepete211 at 
> yahoo.co.uk>wrote:
>
>> Thanks for all the tips. ?I ran the Crucial downloadable scanner. ?It said
>> my max. memory capacity = 3072 MB. ?I have 2 GB in there now, and that:
>> Although the memory can be installed one module at a time, the best
>> performance comes from using matched pairs of modules.Maximum memory is
>> reached by using one 2GB SODIMM and one 1GB SODIMM.
>>
>> I find this contradictory, so I'm still confused. ?I think I should get 
>> two
>> 2 GB sticks to keep best performance. ?Crucial's scanner says that, yet 
>> the
>> next thing it says is that I should get a 2 GB stick for one slot and 
>> keep a
>> 1 GB stick in the other slot. ?Does anyone understand this and is able to
>> recommend which would be faster, the 3 GB set or the 4 GB?
>>
>>
>> My 9000 image catalogue is on a 460 GB external drive with 100 GB spare.
>> ?My 9000 image catalogue seems pretty small compared to the sizes of some
>> LUGgers catalogues. ?I guess it's about time to buy another external HDD 
>> and
>> try to run them together. ?I suppose that means daisy chaining them.
>>
>> As for the recommendation of optimizing my Lightroom catalogue, I can't
>> find where to do that. ?I use Lightroom 2.5. ?I go to Lightroom > File but
>> can't see any optimize option.
>>
>> I'll run Disk utility on my internal and external drives, but I do this
>> *fairly* often anyway.
>>
>> Peter Cheyne
>>
>>
>>
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>
>
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In reply to: Message from geordiepete211 at yahoo.co.uk (Peter Cheyne) ([Leica] OT: Apple Mac gets grindingly slow...)
Message from images at comporium.net (Tina Manley) ([Leica] OT: Apple Mac gets grindingly slow...)