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Why is Lightroom so slow on MacBook Pro? (alien.top)

submitted 1 year ago by mamapear22@alien.top to c/photography@viewfinder.pro

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I bought a new Mac just for photo editing, but Lightroom still feels unreasonably slow on it. I have tried both Lightroom and Lightroom Classic, but both are not nearly as responsive as I would expect. Especially when doing things like using the Heal tools. Are there any settings I can adjust to make it operate faster?

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[–] photog_in_nc@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

First off, Lightroom on the Mac is a big resource hog. 8GB is the minimum requirement and Adobe recommends 16GB. That’s just the basic recommendation, regardless of what files you are editing. And then you are editing A7Riv raw files, so you are really going to be taxing things.