moonhawk Loc: Land of Enchantment

How, please?

Jack 13088 Loc: Central NY

Downloaded LR Classic CC (LRCCC?) "months" ago. Went went perfectly as usual. If I had made the update while under the influence I wouldn’t notice the change. That is a very good thing. I remain a clumsy user of PS (as a plug in to LR) and it seems they have moved some stuff around just to confuse and annoy me. That was successful!

Granted Adobe marketing has its head in a dark place and has for a while. (CC = Creative Cloud, when it was neither!) Marketing that knows nothing about either their products or customers is not unique to Adobe but so far they haven’t screwed up the products yet. Yes, they took a run at it a couple of years back when they hosed the Import dialogue but that was relatively quickly rolled back in the face of user outrage. Apparently kaizen means continuous renaming to marketing. I do not begrudge Adobe trying to enter a large lucrative market space using the Photoshop and Lightroom names just leave me out of it.

To more directly answer the OP LRC3 (don’t know how to type 3 as an exponent) is just a continuation of LRas we know it. There development process is admirable in they that they apparently made wholesale changes to improve performance without breaking anything that I use. The catalog must be converted whenever they change the database schema and this time the new catalog is 40% smaller than the old one which is evidence of extensive redesign.

I don’t know if this answers the question but I feel better now.

DWU2 Loc: Phoenix Arizona area

I had the exact issue you describe. Any ideas? Maybe make a collection set of the unedited ones?

Dngallagher Loc: Wilmington De.

I usually use a star rating... 0 stars for non-keepers, 1 star for keepers, 2 stars for edited, 3 stars and above for published. I thought that I could forgo the star rating and use a filter for edited - but looks like that won't work, so I will keep using my stars I suppose.

Actually with now using Fast Raw Viewer, I only import keepers, so I don't even use 1 star any more.

BUT, if I run into a better method will be sure to post.

EDIT: A collection set is worth a try!

cjc2 Loc: Hellertown PA

As an update to my above post, all updating completed. I uploaded 400 plus raw images from an XQD card. All went, well. Seemed it was just a bit quicker than before. Still has issues moving from image to image in the Develop mode. Other than that, seems fine. In anyone has iny ideas for my speed issue, feel free. Thanks.

happy sailor Loc: Ontario, Canada

I upgraded mine this morning, LR is definitely launching faster and loading pictures faster, haven't tried out the other features because as usual when I randomly grab a folder and look at the pictures I go "oh that one is interesting, why have I not played with it?" and used up all my time editing, LOL. But this is a hobby and is supposed to bring me joy so it is working overtime in that regard!

Pine Warbler

Now I really have to upgrade my computer to take advantage of the new faster fixes. They are recommending 12RAM...I think I may have my husband convinced! Thanks, LR:)

burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC

Yeah, updated a couple hours ago. Will play tomorrow.

Nikon1201

You will be happy

Jack 13088 Loc: Central NY

I find smart collections most excellent for tasks like you are looking at. The expressions for inclusion in a smart collection are more flexible and powerful than creating filters for selection.

Of course, I have become a collection nut. Collections are extremely light weight. With my camera raw files are about 30 MBytes and a catalog entry for a file is about 6 KBytes. A collection of several images only adds a few hundred Bytes. Too small for me to accurately estimate. I would rather dump a group of images into a number of descriptive collections than undertake the tedium of adding good keywords.

Do I understand your issue? You go to develop with a selected group of unedited files. When you select it for develop it becomes edited and disappears from the selection as shown in the filmstrip. If that happens from a selection in the Library module I would think it would happen with a smart collection. But you could start by selecting the entire smart collection to a quick collection which would freeze the selection while editing. When you are finished just clear the quick collection and all is good. Would that work for you?

RichardE Loc: California

Seems like there is also a new process version 4. My computer load time does not seem any faster; Late 2013 iMac 27", macOS High Sierra 10.13.13, 3.5 GHz I7 with 32 GB memory.

Screamin Scott Loc: Marshfield Wi, Baltimore Md, now Dallas Ga

Does not seem any faster on my system...

burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC

Part of the load time is the application "phoning home" from time to time to check and see if your subscription is still active. Most of it, however, is loading code, and if you clicked on an image, opening that image.

Hopefully, your iMac has either a hybrid drive or an SSD. If you have only a conventional hard drive, it is probably Apple's stock 5400 RPM. A 7200 RPM drive is roughly a third faster, but that jump is insignificant, compared to SSD read/write speeds.

You can speed up Adobe products quite a bit by using a large SSD (1TB is about right). It's a royal PITA to change out a drive in an iMac, but it can be done. OWC has videos and iFixIt has instructional web manuals. They make it easy if you can follow instructions exactly. My take is that if you're going to open the case, upgrade everything you can at one time, as far as your budget allows. A 1TB SSD and 32GB RAM are typical speed boosters.

RichardE Loc: California

I do have the 3TB hybrid drive.

Dngallagher Loc: Wilmington De.

FWIW - prior to buying a 5k iMac with a Fusion drive, I had picked up a Thunderbolt attached 240 gb SSD, on the SSD I placed my Adobe apps so they would load from the SSD, easily done with the Adobe CC app by changing the install location.

Loading time was greatly sped up.

Once I got a Fusion drive iMac of course I just install on the Fusion Drive and use the TB external SSD for temp files and raw cache for PS & LR.

As an easy option without opening the case, I have even used the external SSD to create a Fusion drive on an older iMac that worked very nicely to speed up normal booting and operation.