Lightroom questions?

Hi all, would appreciate any input. My Lightroom seems to be falling apart! Just got in return for a photo shoot big and downloaded some 3000 images from around 6 SD cards. The questions are:

  • Significant time lag in loading library mode.
  • Pictures impossible to render in library mode. (Loading... the wheel of death! Followed by: "There was an error with this picture").
  • Rendering a lot of time developing mode for a number of photos.
  • Failure to develop photos in develop mode
  • Slow to send to photoshop and then a problem with the backup of photoshop. (Extremely slow to save Photoshop).
  • Failure to publish on Flikr - "cannot update this collection... document is empty.

Set up:

Photos on external hard drive: LaCie (free 1 TB)

Mac OSX 10.7.5. (2011 model)

Lightroom 5 (2014 license version). some 24 000 pictures.

Photoshop CC 2014. (Both were compatible so far, although I've mainly used Lightroom).

Action taken:

  • Update software for Mac and Lightroom.

Thoughts, areas to investigate welcome

was soon PH

Check the available disk space on the Macintosh hard drive.

Check the health of the external and internal drives.

Use another external drive, a new one formatted for Mac (Mac OS extended (journaled)), and to create a catalogue of test and import X number of images to him.

Check what else is running on your Mac.

The rotation color wheel designates one of 2 things.

(1) the system is busy processing what you asked it to do. For many processes running for the amount of RAM installed and the overall speed of the system.

(2) the system cannot access the data on the disk quickly enough. Problems with the drive.

I would start by getting a new external drive and copy all your images to it, as soon as POSSIBLE. Personally, I have no confidence in the LaCie external hard drives.

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