Lightroom Classic 12.1 release takes over 100 GB of memory

[TheRiddler1982]

Hi all,

Since macOS Ventura 13.1 I am seeing enormous memory consumption using Adobe Lightroom Classic 12.1 release. If I keep the app open for a few hours my RAM and swap is getting filled up until Lightroom Classic crashes (see attached screenshots of memory usage).

Does anybody of you have similar issues? I have googled for the problem but didn't find any related posts about that.

Thanks!

 

[kenoh]

Hi all,

Since macOS Ventura 13.1 I am seeing enormous memory consumption using Adobe Lightroom Classic 12.1 release. If I keep the app open for a few hours my RAM and swap is getting filled up until Lightroom Classic crashes (see attached screenshots of memory usage).

Does anybody of you have similar issues? I have googled for the problem but didn't find any related posts about that.

Thanks!

Yes, I had this too. I my case, it was a permission error. When installing it my network security software (little snitch) stopped it from installing some files and that did exactly this.

To fix mine, I did an uninstall and re-install again and it fixed it.

 

[TheRiddler1982]

Oh, I have LittleSnitch running. Ok, I will reinstall Lightroom Classic with LittleSnitch stopped. Thanks for the tipp.

 

[kenoh]

Oh, I have LittleSnitch running. Ok, I will reinstall Lightroom Classic with LittleSnitch stopped. Thanks for the tipp.

Hope it works but yeah the install connects to the Adobe server for something and I missed Little snitch blocking it. I was pulling my hair out for days then found an obscure message in the log files that adobes fix for was to reinstall.

 

[TheRiddler1982]

I have pi-hole running as well, I haven't seen any queries blocked on that side. I keep an eye open and Lightroom running over the night. Do you know where I can find the logs? /var/log(s) has nothing on that matter.

 

[kenoh]

I have pi-hole running as well, I haven't seen any queries blocked on that side. I keep an eye open and Lightroom running over the night. Do you know where I can find the logs? /var/log(s) has nothing on that matter.

Just in the console messages and I turned on Lightroom install logging in preferences

If you search for Lightroom memory leak M1 there are more articles now.

 

[edubfromktown]

With all of the extraneous CC garbage removed, I'm not seeing that sort of gluttony.

LrC is using 900.2 MB

 

[Fishrrman]

edub wrote:
"With all of the extraneous CC garbage removed, I'm not seeing that sort of gluttony."

Sounds good.
But...
Just how does one REMOVE all of the "extraneous CC garbage"...?

 

[edubfromktown]

edub wrote:
"With all of the extraneous CC garbage removed, I'm not seeing that sort of gluttony."

Sounds good.
But...
Just how does one REMOVE all of the "extraneous CC garbage"...?

Open a chat with support and request a download link to the latest LrC 12 installer.

Tell them you want to run it w/o Creative Cloud and they will provide instructions on how to use the CC removal tool and reinstall LrC locally with no CC.

 

[wilberforce]

How and when to use the Creative Cloud Cleaner tool | Advanced steps

The Adobe Creative Cloud Cleaner tool is intended for advanced computer users and can fix many common problems (such as removing old Adobe software, cleaning corrupt installation files, and fixing your host files to establish a connection with Adobe servers).

helpx.adobe.com

 

[TheRiddler1982]

So, uninstalling Lightroom Classic and re-installing it without LittleSnitch enabled, memory leak does not go away. So, I am stuck with the support of Adobe.

Any other ideas to get this issue fixed?

 

[MarkC426]

I don't use LR, but is there a reason you have LR + LRC running together.
Just a thought, if you close LR does that make a difference (so just run LRC).

 

[TheRiddler1982]

The issue remains whether only one or both apps are fired up. Actually, both apps are open because for the same time (since the latest major releases of Adobe), syncing does not work properly. I can wait for hours and nothing happens. Lightroom Classic tells me that everything is synced whereas Lightroom does not believe that.

 

[kenoh]

The issue remains whether only one or both apps are fired up. Actually, both apps are open because for the same time (since the latest major releases of Adobe), syncing does not work properly. I can wait for hours and nothing happens. Lightroom Classic tells me that everything is synced whereas Lightroom does not believe that.

Go into preferences, go to the sync tab, hold down option and click the rebuild sync button that appears. Then restart Lightroom. Click to unpause sync and it should start again.

 

[kenoh]

So, uninstalling Lightroom Classic and re-installing it without LittleSnitch enabled, memory leak does not go away. So, I am stuck with the support of Adobe.

Any other ideas to get this issue fixed?

This one is another option…

Re: Memory leak - out of memory/force quit 12.0.1 - LrC 11

This sounds symptomatic of a bad install/migration. Two step process to restore your Lightroom Classic installation. This procedure works for both Lightroom Classic and Lightroom Desktop. If you are using Lightroom Desktop it can change the location of your local storage. Please review this...

community.adobe.com

 

[TheRiddler1982]

Go into preferences, go to the sync tab, hold down option and click the rebuild sync button that appears. Then restart Lightroom. Click to unpause sync and it should start again.

Thanks, didn't know that. I tried that and took nearly 12 hours to complete but it didn't solve the problem. Now I have even more images stuck with that message. Guess I wait for the next minor release update.

 

[kenoh]

Thanks, didn't know that. I tried that and took nearly 12 hours to complete but it didn't solve the problem. Now I have even more images stuck with that message. Guess I wait for the next minor release update.

Wow I am being zero help sorry. These are things I have done to resolve the memory leak and sync issues.

I did some more (probably useless) reading around it. Now I have managed to make your issue worse. I feel obliged to keep trying.

Some people have reported that going to the desktop LRC and creating a virtual copy, then going to the original and resetting the edits, then copying the edit settings from the virtual copy back to the original seems to fix it sometimes. Others suggest a minor tweak of a setting will trigger a refresh of the settings sync.


Apparently this is a known issue dating back to 2018 and Adobe are yet to fix it. The good news is that it seems to be that the image itself is safe, just that the edit settings for some reason have not been synced properly.

Also, for a debug log for LRC, go to preferences, account and hold option and the log button should appear.

 

[JamesMay82]

This post reminded me about Lightroom classic. I'm only a casual user but must admit I assumed it might of been discontinured as they seemed to be pushing Lightroom CC more a few years ago which is what I moved to.

So does it get it updated regularly and has the UI changed to the more modern looking Lightroom CC? I just went on adobes website and classic isn't on the main pages and seems to be buried on the photography section which is a shame.

 

[kenoh]

This post reminded me about Lightroom classic. I'm only a casual user but must admit I assumed it might of been discontinured as they seemed to be pushing Lightroom CC more a few years ago which is what I moved to.

So does it get it updated regularly and has the UI changed to the more modern looking Lightroom CC? I just went on adobes website and classic isn't on the main pages and seems to be buried on the photography section which is a shame.

Classic looks the same as it always did (to me at least). It is getting some pretty good new features and frequent updates still. I am wondering if Adobe realised that Lightroom CC wasn't being used as much as they would have liked and so Classic remains.