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1. Re: Why does LR5 not use the preview images?
ssprengel Jan 19, 2014 10:54 AM (in response to Toon61)Smart Previews are for when the original photos are offline so you can actually do things in Develop without them.
Are you talking about when you first import photos or after they are imported and you have started up LR, again, and click into the folder in LR to start working on them?
When you click into a new folder of photos, besides loading the previews from disk into memory, LR is also checking any metadata stored in the photos, themselves, to see if it matches what metadata is stored in the LR database, and this can take some time because LR is actually reading some information from each photo wherever it is stored.
As LR completes scanning of each photo the three-dots will disappear from the thumbnail.
Is this the delay you’re seeing, the three dots being on all the thumbnails and going away one-by-one?

