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If I do a search on my root level catalog folder and get tired of waiting and try to cancel the Progress / Scanning box I get a spinning beach ball that seemingly never ends. I am loathe to force quit any application, particularly these kind that rely on databases of some sort (I'm assuming...), worrying about corrupting the program in some way. Admittedly the folder has 100,000+ images. I can't recall how long I have let it spin and will try not to cancel again but a search, even through that many images shouldn't take more than a half a minute, should it?
Does anyone have a sense as to what damage, if any, may be done by force quitting in such circumstances?
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Because you are in the Browser you should be OK doing a Force Quit.
Are you building any Catalogs? That process does consume a lot of computer resources which could affect the search as the program is scanning through your entire collection of images twice and at the same time — once for building the catalog and the 2nd time to scan it for your search so it keeps bouncing back and forth between where the two processes want to read from the drive. Once the cataloging process is finished the searches will run much faster and the resource needs return to normal.
I don't have that many images in my collection so I don't know an average search time for one that large.
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I'm not in the Browser when this happens. I don't really use the Browser tab. I have 28 tabs within the Local Drive section and always default to simply viewing via the My Catalog section that only shows the main graphics folder I'm interested in viewing. I'm no longer building the Catalog. That finally reached 100%. I'll just take a bit more care. Currently I'm Migrating my major LR catalog. I'm not having it add jpgs of the edited images. That would have been unwieldy. Currently it's exporting 18,000+ images and I'm just letting it churn away and checking on it occasionally :).
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You cannot use the program without using its Browser. It is the only way to select an image to be edited. In order to see the Local Drive panel you must be in the Browser. The same goes for viewing your Catalog. And for using the Search feature. You are either in the Browser or one of the Editor modes.
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When I refer to my root level catalog folder I'm referring to the main graphics folder I use which is a Cataloged Folder. It's possible that now that Photo Raw has fully completed the migration it will be stable through a search and cancelling will not result in a spinning beach ball. On a side note after the migration was completely finished, scrolling was horribly slow but after a restart it is amazingly fast. I'm tossing up a short video (if possible) to say thanks.
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