So I notice that today my LR (v 13.0.1) is taking a lot longer to do just about everything, from clicking on "Auto" in the Develop module to deleting images to even moving from one image to the next in the ribbon on the bottom while in Library module.

I also have a utility called Memory Clean 3 (on a MacBook Pro with M1 CPU and 16GB of RAM), which has a function to clean out trashed memory and displays what percentage of memory is free at the top of the screen next to the clock. Today I notice that LR is driving that free memory number down to the low teens, whereas normally it hovers in the low 20's and the system works well enough.

My conclusion is that Adobe did something to screw the pooch in the area of memory handling; two days ago this was not going on (nor has it happened in the 10 or so years i have been using LR).

So, spare me the "contact Adobe " advice - my question is "has anyone else noticed this behavior"? I have not added or changed any other software, even OSX 13.4 has not been updated for a few weeks, so it ain't that.

TIA for any comments or experiences others have had of late.

Each year I drive over to NE Wyoming to visit friends I try to take at least one day to visit Mt. Rushmore. This year proved incredibly fortuitous for me in a few ways. I often see someone trying to take a selfie with the faces behind them. In those situations, many times, I offer to use their phone to take their picture. One of the people this time was a very pleasant lady trying her luck. I offered to take the picture and she said great. After that picture she called her boyfriend over and I took their picture. As I am an outgoing person I asked if they lived in the area. Turns out he is a rancher/farmer from SD. I asked if he had thousands of acres with deer, pheasants and so on he needed some help in thinning out. He smiled and said I would be welcome to come over and hunt anytime. Now I have a SD pheasant license and will stay with him and his family for at least 5 days hunting pheasant. Hopefully more to come next year in the way of hunting whitetail deer.

My next lucky moment was when discussing a photo opportunity with a friend and photo mentor in Southern California. While talking to him I looked on a marble wall on the viewing platform and saw a beautiful praying mantis just sitting there wanting me to take photographs. I told my friend, later, and hung up. I like the photos a lot as one shows the mantis preening his face as a cat might do.

A cup of ice cream in the restaurant area made the day even better.

Dennis

The images below are of NGC 891 nicknamed the Outer Limits Galaxy since it was one of the Galaxies that was shown in the end credits of the 1960's show called "The Outer Limits" (It was one of my favorite shows back then).
NGC 891 is just over 27 million light years away and can be found in the constellation of Andromeda and shines at magnitude 10.84. This edge on spiral galaxy is thought to look like our galaxy from an edge on perspective and is approximately the same size as the Milky Way. On close inspection you can find several much more distant galaxies in the images. However only PGC 9042 at magnitude 16.23 shows up in my charts and can be found towards the top of the image about 1/2 way between the left edge and center of the image. The other many more faint galaxies can be spotted as elongated blobs of light and or are more fuzzy than the images of the stars.

The first image was taken using Luminance, Red Green and Blue filters. The second image added in an Image taken using a 5 nm Narrow band Hydrogren Alpha filter using the NBRGBCombination routine, which rebalances the color after adding in the Ha data (The NB stands for Narrow band, the RGB stands for Red, Green and Blue). Note: In the second image the little red areas along the dust line in galaxy that are brought out with the Hydrogen Alpha data (You will probably need to use double down to zoom in enough to see these red areas). These red dots reveal locations of active star formation. In both images the background star brightness was reduced to not distract from the image of the Galaxy.

All questions comments and suggestions are welcome.

For those interested
All images were taken using a 16" Schmidt Cassegrain telescope at a 4064mm focal length (F10). The camera used was a monochromatic ASI 6200MM pro cooled camera. The camera images were taken a -12 C with a gain of 100, with binning set to 1x1.

Luminance 91 subframes each 180 seconds long
Red 37 subframes each 240 seconds long
Green 42 subframes each 240 seconds long
Blue 37 subframes each 240 seconds long
Ha 66 subframes each 500 seconds long