![]() Also, rename the Preview file (the one with. You might rename it with the word “OLD” in front of the name, so it’s obvious. Go to the old catalog on your external hard drive and rename that old catalog and rename it with a name so you’ll know it’s the old catalog and that you no longer use that one - from now on you’ll always use the one on your internal drive.Now go find that newly copied catalog on your internal hard drive and double-click on it so it launches Lightroom and opens the catalog on your computer (not the old one on your external drive.].Once you’ve copied those two (or three) files onto your computer’s internal hard drive, Quit Lightroom.lrdata as it’s file extension) and if you made any Smart Previews, you’ll see that file in the folder too and you need to copy that over as well. lrcat), and your Previews file (the one with. Make sure you copy the entire Lightroom catalog over there - the one that has your catalog (its name will end with the file extension. Drag a copy of your Lightroom catalog from your external drive over to your computer’s internal hard drive (preferably your SSD internal drive if you have one).Essentially here’s what your’e going to do: This is actually pretty simple (so don’t try to overcomplicate it). Also, if your computer (like many today) has an SSD drive internally, definitely put it on that drive ( his had an SSD and a regular drive both internally, but the SSD is much faster). It ideally would be on your computer not on an external hard drive - your photos can be on that external no problem - just not your catalog. There’s a few things that I always ask first when someone tells me Lightroom is running really slow for them, and one of the first things I ask is about the location of their catalog. When he saw how fast Lightroom was running on my computer, he was floored. It should have been more like 10-seconds. Combining a three photo HDR photo preview (just the preview mind you) took about three minutes. I have to say, I’ve never seen Lightroom run slower than his copy in my entire career. ![]() ![]() I’m bringing this up today because I’m on vacation with a friend (we just left the Faroe Islands and right now we’re just leaving Iceland for our trip back home), and he was showing me how slow his copy of Lightroom Classic was running on his Windows desktop machine (yes, he brought his big rig with him here on the ship). …your Lightroom catalog isn’t on your computer - it’s on an external hard drive, and having to write to a slower external drive (one that’s perhaps way slower than your computer’s internal hard drive) can make Lightroom crawl along big time. ![]()
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