Takes long time for Lr to see my catalogs

[axrtu]

In the current version of Lr, it takes a long time after opening Lr before it sees the images in my catalogs.  This used to be fairly quick.

Any ideas would be helpful,  thank  you.

Tom

[SeanMcCormack]

Try File>Optimize Catalog

[Geckoz100]

Did that help?  I just ran Synchronize Folder on the top folder, and today I opened LR and so far the hard drive has been cranking away for about a half hour.

[axrtu]

Sorry, it did not help I am just living with it.

[Geckoz100]

Are you by chance using an external drive to store your images?  I am.  I'm going to try moving the Lightroom Catalog folder to my local hard drive, to see if that makes any difference.

[axrtu]

My images are on my computer.  I just tried opening Lr for the first time today and it took a while and shows a black band across the top of the window .  When that cleared up the images showed up pretty quickly.  I find that there are quite a few different things that happen at different times that take Lr a bit to find itself.  Again, just living with it.

Tom

[johnrellis]

Do you have hundreds or thousands of presets?  In some of my testing of LR 7.3, LR showed the Mac's spinning beachball for quite a while on startup when I had several thousand presets present -- removing the presets fixed the problem.

[axrtu]

I only have the default presets.