I'd add this to the gigantic "LR is slow" topic, but it's a different oddity........
Windows 7, i920 at 3.8GHz, 12GB of memory, running LR 4.3 RC. It was working better. Yes, it's still not blinding fast or even as adequately fast as 3.6, but it was BETTER........
And it's been better for a couple weeks. I've been able to start LR, look at images in the Library, go into Develop and have it display the preview fairly speedily, and so on... Sliders and stuff weren't appallingly slow.
TWO DAYS AGO, for no reason that I can find, it suddenly reverted to behavior I used to see. Still starts fine, still shows thumbnails fine, etc. BUT, when I go into Develop, it puts up the preview, appears to finish and display the loupe text, THEN it starts the spinning wheel and just hangs there for 20 - 30 seconds saying "Loading". It doesn't appear to be doing anything new, it's not generating (as far as I know) a 1:1 preview or opening another module, or doing ANYTHING IT DIDN'T DO LAST WEEK. But, it definitely, consistently hangs for an extended period. FWIW, when it does this, the background behind the loupe text goes from transparent to black, and it just sits there until it's done "Loading".
These are Nikon D300, dng files, so nothing large or interesting. I haven't installed any new software or updates or anything else I know of in the last week. I checked my cache partition and it's got 58 GB free. I optimized my catalog yesterday. I even deleted everything from the cache partition to see if that would matter. It didn't. I even rebooted the box just in case there was something else going on. No difference.
OH, BTW, once it's done doing this, I can move from image to image in Develop and it NEVER DOES IT AGAIN... It's only on initial entry.
I presume there's SOME setting, somewhere in LR that I changed or clobbered or did something to, but I have no idea what it is... Hopefully the black background on the text will be a clue for someone.
Anybody have any ideas why I'd get this sudden change in behavior?
