library upgrade in progress ..... zzzzz

Don't know about anyone else's experience yet, but the first thing LR does is upgrade your old library. Right now, I am well into my second hour of waiting, so get ready for a long evening.



I'm on a MAC G5 QUAD with 4GB of ram. My library has close to 40,000 images. What's frustrating is that the progress bar hasn't moved in a very long time, but the library journal file is getting bigger so it must be doing something.



Not a very informative message perhaps, but it gave me something to do other than watching that little blue bar!
library upgrade in progress ..... zzzzz
If you have a large library to upgrade, it will take a while. The good news is that it's a one-time thing, just like importing.



Lee Jay
library upgrade in progress ..... zzzzz
Go and watch some paint dry or go to bed. With that many files it will take a long time, but, it is a once only.

The journal goes up and down in size over the course of the event.



Just be happy that when you are done it will rock, maek sure you have rendered standard previews to a size 1.5x your screen pixel width as well.



Enjoy!!

took me 3 and a half hours for 15000 files on an AMD XP 2500...

My initial conversion was 10,000 and took 45 mins. I hate to be doing it with my current 50,000. It does take time.

And it ran OK for you?

Fine. And on the laptop too: 6,000 images.

I've a few other smaller libraries for tests and they were fine too.

My 14,000 image library took about 60 minutes to convert.



However, don't be confused by the progress bar as it's very unreliable. At the start of the conversion it jumped to about the 2/3 mark and at about 3/4 suddenly finished.

2 hours for 15,000 files windows XP 2 core 3 Gig memory SATA drives

keep an eye on the drive lights the progress bar does not

show after first 3 bars.

Why weren't we given the option of upgrading the library at time of install. Surely the engineers knew how long it would take. It sure would have been THOUGHTFUL if someone gave us a heads up during the install process. I want to be up and running NOW! Not an hour or two from now.

Hi Tim,



It all takes time, no matter how close to the installation point the work happens.

There are notes in the FAQ about things taking a long while.

Because the installer can't do it?

The frustrating thing is there is no way to tell if it has crashed. The bar jumped up in a series of rapid moves about an hour ago for me, so after sitting at the 40% mark it has now been at the 85% mark that time. I now see in the Finder (Mac OS X 10.4.8 ) that the library file has not be modified since that time; does this mean it has crashed, or just that it is doing something else? Who knows.

Ah, the journal file has been updated this minute! Have faith my little smurfs, it is not crashed, just as uncommunicative as a kiwi male. :)

Understand it takes time. I want the choice as to when I take that time.

I want the choice of not doing it at all. THe program never ran when I exited from the upgrade dialog box.

That's because it has no Library. Option Click on Mac or either Ctrl or Alt click on PC to bring up the Library selector and create a new one.

Sean

Lightroom has to be running for me to do that. I couldn't skip the library upgrade process and go right into Lightroom. The program didn't run when I tried that.

I mean when starting Lightroom.

'' Ah, the journal file has been updated this minute! Have faith my little smurfs, it is not crashed, just as uncommunicative as a kiwi male. ''

How do you know Duncan ?? We only come out at night!!

Because I am one! :)

Where are you ??

Karori, Wellington. Y'self?

Over the hill in Greytown, well actually it's paradise!!

Upgrade window with progress bar has finally disappeared... replaced so far with nothing... just a menubar-less window-less apparently-running application... Hmmm. And which the OS claims is ''Not Responding''. D'oh.

Enjoy Duncan, it takes time, off to zzzzzzzz now!!

Same here, got to 2 bars then seems to have stopped. Windows task manager says ''Not Responding'' and 100% CPU, so have ended task. Maybe I'll try again and give it a couple of hours. Strange about the ''Not responding'' bit though :-/



Steve

My library upgrade looks like it's hung, too, but if you look at the processes instead of the tasks in the Task Manager, you should see lightroom.exe and how much CPU and memory it's using. Memory count keeps going up. I probably had 30-50k images. Not really sure. I've been running for about 5-6 hours and the total memory usage is at 1,410,496K and climbing. This is on a 3Ghz P4 with 2GB of RAM.