Dave Hartley

I upgraded my 1.4.1 release of Lightroom to the new version 2.0 last night. Today was the first day that I really got to play with it. Somethings I like, some I don’t; I’ll post a blog on my initial thoughts after I’ve played around with it some more.

One thing I have noticed is that it’s given me the spinning ball of death on my Mac twice tonight (please read the full post as I’m updating whenever I get a hang). Both times, I was in the develop module. The first time I was using the dust spot removal tool and had just typed “N’ to come out of the tool… spinning ball hang. The second time, I had used the graduated filter tool, went to the saturation control and pressed down arrow key twice … spinning ball hang. Both times the cpu was at 99% and I had to do a force quit. This is on a 2.4HGz MacbookPro, 4G ram and 10.5.4.

Luckily my catalog was ok after each force quit, and it’s a reminder to ensure that you backup your catalog just in case.

Update: I just had another spinning ball. Again in the develop module; this time I was in the Detail -> Chromatic Aberration panel and had just hit the up arrow key + shift twice on the Red/Cyan adjustment. Again, Lightroom not responding and cpu load is 90% with a force quit required.

Update: Another spinning ball. In the Library module, Lightroom was in grid view and generating thumbnails in a set of folders (over 4000 images in about ten folders). I selected one image and pressed ‘E’ to go into loupe view… hang, spinning ball. CPU load was zero, Lightroom was not responding, and I had to do a force quit.

Update: Another spinning ball. Dual monitor mode. Loupe view on monitor 1, grid on monitor 2. Hit X to flag a photo as reject… hand and had to force quit. CPU load for Lightroom was 98%.

Update: Another spinning ball in dual monitor mode. This can occur when we have loupe/grid view on the different monitors and also when both are in loupe view. Sometimes, the spinning ball comes back to life after several minutes but sometimes it locks up and force quit is required.

Update: Another spinning ball. In develop mode using the gradient tool. I had just made an adjustment to the clarity and got the infamous spinning ball, Lightroom was not responding with cpu of 24%. To make matters worse, I took a snapshot screen grab of the activity monitor showing the Lightroom hang and then pasted it into a new Photoshop file … my whole computer froze up requiring a hard reboot.

Update: Another one. In loupe view, I was zoomed in and hit X to mark as a reject… spinning ball, 98% cpu and force quite required.

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