0 Replies Latest reply: Jan 29, 2014 12:41 PM by nahcr RSS

    lightroom crashing/not responding when adding keywords

    nahcr Community Member

      I have been trying to add keywords to a moderately large (approx 250000 pics) catalog on a network drive.  When I try to add keywords to say 100 files at the same time, the first few times it works ok and then it gets slower and slower and the windows task manager says it is not responding.  the lightroom window greys out.  My computer starts flashing a black screen at me. the mouse becomes erratic.  I have to logoff or restart the computer because the lightroom task can't be ended either by clicking the top right X or by trying to end the task in the task manager. 

      In addition, several times when i restarted lightroom, a message flashed up on the screen from lightroom and disappeared so quickly that i couldnt read it, but i did catch the word "catalog".  i have tried optimizing the catalog, but not a big difference.

      Any ideas?