{"id":20,"date":"2007-10-03T17:51:33","date_gmt":"2007-10-03T16:51:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rjt.org.uk\/home\/?p=20"},"modified":"2009-06-22T13:49:11","modified_gmt":"2009-06-22T12:49:11","slug":"lightroom-speed-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rjt.org.uk\/home\/archives\/20\/lightroom-speed-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Lightroom Speed Up"},"content":{"rendered":"

My PC has Raid 5 for the main data disks and that makes it fairly slow to write to disk. This meant I really wanted to move the Lightroom cache, but not the database on to another disk. Well today I managed it.<\/p>\n

Firstly I found an article about using symbolic linked drives on the Mac<\/a>, which lead me to search for a tool to do the same under windows. I found Junction <\/a> there are a few limitations in that you need to be using NTFS as a file system, but I was so I crossed my fingers and did the deed.<\/p>\n

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  1. Make sure Lightroom is NOT running.<\/li>\n
  2. Move the “Lightroom Database Previews.lrdata\/” directory to the new hard drive.<\/li>\n
  3. Put the Junction exe in the Windows directory<\/li>\n
  4. From the command line type Junction “old dir” “new dir”<\/em> and press enter<\/li>\n
  5. Start lightroom and your cache is moved.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    This is probably a tip only for advanced PC users and its well worth reading though the help for Junction<\/a> and the Shell Shocked Article<\/a> before you start, but it’s speeded up my Lightroom no end so it was worth it for me.<\/p>\n

    New: June 2009<\/p>\n

    I have just found Link Shell Extension<\/a> which adds a GUI interface to the Junction Command.\u00a0\u00a0 Very Nice and it works in x64 Vista<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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