On 25/09/2017 08:21, Eric Stevens wrote:
On Sun, 24 Sep 2017 20:13:11 -0400, nospam
wrote:

In article , Eric Stevens
wrote:

On my Mac, not the iPad, Lightroom was not running, so;
Step #1: Open Lightroom: 27.58 seconds

yikes. you have a very slow hard drive.

for me, it's about 4 seconds cold launch from an ssd. i did not time it
to 100th second accuracy, though.

I've got an SSD and from the first click to being ready to edit was
about 13 seconds.

then something is *very* wrong.

is it connected via usb 2?

Samsung SSD 950 PRO 512GB [Hard drive] (512.11 GB) -- drive 1, s/n
0025_3856_61B0_14D5.


I'd check for a virus/malware. A friend brought round a similarly speced
almost new PC, and it was taking minutes to boot, 100% disk access most
of the time once booted, very slow. Task manager showed some suspicious
processes (from a google search and disk/processor hogging) connected
with Firefox add-ins.

I couldn't be certain that malware was the cause of the slow machine,
but if it were mine I'd start by cleaning it up.

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Cheers, Rob