Dell Studio xps 22gb Ram I7 processor 1tb/2tb internal. 2-3tb external, 2 2tb were also used to move data
Total records about 70,000 (not sure it is relevant, low volume done on notebook but have not seen it crash there...Total records there might reach 10k between notebook and 1tb passport if remote shoot is large
First issue with the system crashing is when I try to import a catalog that I have created from my desktop to go into the main library. Each library was created as a smart collection to help deal with the 5dIII conversions which on some were DNG (with that release candidate) and subsequently RAW when 4.01RC was released. My smart collections were segregated by capture date and file type (to leverage any processing done on my notebook). Catalogs were roughly between 1200 and 5000 images between 5 dates plus one that contained all the DNGs.
When I would start the import, I had to babysit as it 90% of the time crashed at 500 records. Somewhat odd to me is that is often (90%) would crash after restarting at multiples of 500-meaning at 1000, 1500,2000 and 2500 images imported. No error message other that the screen would gray out and then would say Lightroom shutting down...do you want to send MS info and the like
Never had any problems with any version of LR crashing before
Second Issue is that the system crashed 75% of the time when taking the smart collection and exporting as a catalog. Again gray out the screen and says Adobe PhotoshopLightroom is shutting down....do you want to send to Microsoft
Third issue with shutting down has to do with occasional shutting down after editing as a smart image and saving back to LR...5% of the time
To mitigate, I reinstall LR4.01 numerous times, even from fresh downloads. I also tried a combination of external
and internal drives to see if I could see a pattern. It proved irrelevant the combo I used to export/import.
