Cheap Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3 Upgrade

After “wasting” several hours reading forums here and elsewhere on the unacceptably slow operation of Lightroom 3, I am compelled to add my voice to those of the others here who are demanding that Adobe acknowledge a serious performance issue with the product.

I use LR professionally on two different Vista 32 systems that both ran LR 2.7 extremely well. The degradation in operational performance introduced by LR3 on both machines is so severe that the product is unuseable, as it causes a major delay in my workflow – sitting watching the “processing” logo spinning on the screen is giving me nightmares! Hence, I am stripping out LR3 and reverting to 2.7.

I am IT literate and there is lots of potentially useful comment and advice here and elsewhere on what may be the cause of the problem. However, software vendors are duty bound to ensure their product is fit-for-purpose – they cannot expect purchasers to research issues at length and try various technical options for achieving a level of performance improvement. This is especially true when the vendor is allegedly selling a product for use by professionals.

The new functioanlity is LR3 is welcome, but the product should not have been released without effective testing and, where appropriate, real-world advice on the minimum system configuration, and, if appropriate, the correct method of migrating catalogues from one version to another.

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I am also having problems with slowness on my new Mac with 12GB ram. Import seems to go okay for me, but when I Export it can take 15 minutes or more to process 75 jpgs. I usually Import into an existing blank folder on a second internal hard drive, and have checked “add to catalog” and rename the files, that’s it. Each photo has about 6-10 keywords assigned to it.

Another very very slow area is keywording. Sometimes it works fine, but then, inexplicably, the little checkboxes next to the keywords suddenly disappear when I go to the right panel, and I have to wait for 2-3 minutes for the box to appear before I can check it. Then, I have to wait another 2-3 minutes for my check to appear in the box. This is extremely frustrating as keywords are an essential part of my workflow. I checked in Activity Monitor and it showed that I was only using .85 percent of CPU, something like that (sorry I’m not too techy so not sure what I’m supposed to be looking at in Activity Monitor).

I am not doing anything different than I did with LR 2.7, which worked like a charm and was quite fast on the same computer. I will not mention the many other minor problems I’m having with this software, all of which are adding up to a horrendous experience for me. I cannot believe this software was released like this. I am very disappointed to the point that I’m thinking of looking elsewhere for my photo cataloguing needs.