Lightroom Laggy and Glitchy

January 12th, 2021
Is anyone else finding LR Classic painfully laggy and glitchy since the last update? possibly i have too much stored on my laptop just now and i will see about moving older files to an external drive on the weekend... but really, there's still quite a bit of space and the issues only showed up since the last update... just curious as to whether anyone else is experiencing this...
tx!
January 12th, 2021
It is slow for sure, especially when import file and load full screen view.
January 12th, 2021
Both it and Photoshop seem slow and a bit buggy to me. ...and I have a new laptop with lots of video RAM. Meh.
January 12th, 2021
What version are you on, and do use use windows or Mac? I'm on 10.1 for Mac and I haven't noticed any difference from previous versions.
January 12th, 2021
Found a huge thread on about it on the photoshop forums.
https://feedback.photoshop.com/conversations/lightroom-classic/lightroom-classic-mac-user-interface-slow-after-upgrading/5f91bbf7917fbb3a9935742e?page=1.

I didn't go too into depth on it, but some people said it improved when disconnecting 4k monitors, others downgraded to 9.4 to resolve the issue.
January 12th, 2021
I unfortunately need to bring my computer into town to upgrade since my internet is too slow (you need at least a 10 and I average 3.5 speed) and have yet to do that.
I find that a quick re-boot of the computer tends to speed things up immensely when LR slows down.
January 12th, 2021
yiiiiiikes i was just offered a LR Classic update and thought 'oh yes i'll do that later' ... then i hear this and it scares me. why oh why do updates so often cause so many problems?! every time there's a mac update the people who provide me with email support send out an urgent email telling us not to update until the myriad of problems have been sorted out :(
January 12th, 2021
@sudweeks wow josh that's a depressing read. i'm going to leave well alone for now and hope those of you who have the new update can downgrade or something :(
January 12th, 2021
Just saw that there's a Lightroom 10.1.1 upgrade just released. Seems to be a pretty minor release (10.1 to 10.1.1) and I can't find the release notes on the adobe site. But I'm sure this is bug fixes and no new features. I just downloaded it, but since I wasn't seeing performance issues, I won't be able to tell if those were addressed.

Also - it looks like performance issues started with 10.0, and 10.1 addressed some, but not all of those issues. I would upgrade to the newest and check before downgrading to 9.4.
January 12th, 2021
Mine is generally OK but for some reason when I zoom in an image to 100% it struggles and takes 5 or 6 seconds to show the image!
January 13th, 2021
@sudweeks thanks! i just ran the updates... things went much better with editing - for one image... hopefully it's done the trick and all will now be well... fingers crossed!

@pistache i'm on a MAC - hopefully the update has fixed things, but i really need to play around a bit more than i have time for today before being sure...
January 13th, 2021
No problems for me. I'm mac based, and have finally bitten the bullet and updated to Big Sur. Was put off due to people having problems. None here.
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