4 Replies Latest reply: Oct 15, 2008 5:21 AM by jbm007 RSS

    LR 2 rating search and performance?

    hrh gracie Community Member
      I'm now using 2.1, and I still don't see a rating choice in the Library filter (that goofy thing that drops down and obscures a large portion of the already too-small grid in the library)... There's a "Label", but no "Rating".... If there's going to be one, shouldn't there be both?

      And PERFORMANCE again...... Does ANYBODY have any useful advice for improving performance? I've got e6700 dual core processors, 4GB of fast memory, 1TB disk drives in RAID, and an 8600GT video card, and this thing is STILL abysmally slow...... I've head to read the metadata for my medium sized catalog - about 35000 images, and it's taken almost 2 days - of course LR freezes periodically and I have to kill it, but this is appallingly slow. Just reading metadata, not updating peviews, which is even slower, or doing anything exotic or interesting....
        • 1. Re: LR 2 rating search and performance?
          Lee Jay-7OQGJF Community Member
          Attribute contains the ratings.
          • 2. Re: LR 2 rating search and performance?
            ssprengel Community Member
            Besides in the filter bar, above, which you can toggle on and off with the \ or View / Filter Bar, the star ratings are also along the button, above the thumbnail strip if you click on the word Filter to cycle through the choices it shows.

            Regarding performance, I have a 1GB 2.4GHz machine with 20,000 images since July and reading metadata from XMP files was slow like you're seeing if I produced the XMP files with GeoSetter / EXIFtool before my first import and tried to import when the XMP already existed, but things are reasonably speedy if I import first, then create the XMP metadata with GeoSetter, then Save Metadata (which adds the LR metadata to the XMP that GeoSetter produced) and Read Metadata (which reads the combined LR and GeoSetter metadata into the LR catalog). BTW, I have Automatically write changes to XMP turned off.

            What situation do you have where you need to read the metadata of your entire catalog? Is this a LR 1.4x catalog, or are there XMPs produced with ACR? In my case, LR seemed to choke on the XMPs produced by EXIFtool, which contain the metapacket wrapper that LR, itself, does not put on XMP files for some reason. I posted something online abou this, and got one response from someone who uses GeoSetter the say I do and said his imports were fast, so it's obviously not a universal problem, which makes it harder for Adobe to understand and address.
            • 3. Re: LR 2 rating search and performance?
              hrh gracie Community Member
              I was reading the metadata because when I reloaded the catalog, I created a copyright statement... AND, all the boxes were checked, so the ratings and labels got clobbered..... After the 20+ hour recreation I had to go back to the catalog backup and WRITE all the labels and rating back to the images. Then I had to reread them all into the new catalog......

              Unfortunately, I created thenew catalog in the (forlorn, and apparently unfounded) hope that it would be both smaller (which it's not) and perform better, which it definitely doesn't.....

              It's too bad since the product has good points, but the slowness navigating, going into Develop, making adjustments, etc makes it painful to use.
              • 4. Re: LR 2 rating search and performance?
                jbm007 MeganK
                Are you on a Mac or Win machine.

                Whats your OS

                Jim