How long has the LR6 catalog upgrade taken for you?

<p>I'm upgrading from LR4. It's taken 45 minutes so far, and the progress bar hasn't moved in the last 40. It says it's "Preparing new searchable data." It's a fast i7 and the software, OS and catalog are on an SSD. Task manager reveals it's doing basically nothing, not running the disk or the CPU.</p>

<p>Just wondering if this is typical.</p>

<p>There are maybe 50k images in it, most of them currently offline. I kinda suspect it's trying, and retrying, and retrying, and retrying, to reach images on a network server that is not available.</p>

<p>Yup, sounds like it has to 'try' everything. Let it go. It will complete. My upgrade was LR4->LR6. I don't think there are any issues with the upgrade.</p>

Probably normal. My first bout with LR4

cataloging took several hours - maybe even

overnight. For awhile I thought LR was abnormally

slow, but it was tying up system resources while

digesting many thousands of files. After that it

was fine.

<p>Looking at my cat, it's less than 5000. I have not referenced my bigger one since the upgrade.</p>

 

<p>It took about ten minutes at the most for me, similar configuration, mine is a Mac, you don't say what your hardware is. I have over 130K images. Sounds like it's stuck or you have more complexity than I do, for some reason. Also, if you have to start over, discard all your previews in LR4 and then do the upgrade.</p>

<p>It did finally finish. I'm not sure how long it took, I wasn't here when it finished. It seems to be working ok. I checked and there are actually 153,000 images in the catalog; apparently I shoot a lot of pictures.</p>

<p>I don't keep everything in the one catalog. Really handy when you do a lot of "testing"....</p>