GUYS NEED HELP!! My Mac book pro decided to suddenly hang in middle of very important editing work. I tried restarting it.stiil runs too slow.is there a way I can make it work properly ? Want to avoid formatting it. THANK YOU!
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EMERGENCY!!! [Mac book pro decided to suddenly hang in middle of very important editing work]
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A wee bit more information is needed. i.e. year of your MBP, OS, what application was running, anything running in the background, etc.
Is late 2010 model.was working on lightroom software for editing pictures.it suddenly hung.and its slow ever since. OS is el captain
Whats the breakdown? OS X and iOS are designed to use close to 100% ram all the time. Most of the time its just file cache. Memory pressure is a better statistic.
Before doing anything else copy your photos and Lightroom catalogue/library files to an external drive. That way if you have to reinstall or reformat you'll be able to open your Catalog after you reinstall Lightroom. I understand it's running slow but better slow than nothing at all.
Don't open any other apps and just use finder to copy all the files.
Don't open any other apps and just use finder to copy all the files.
This. Make sure you backup your files. My next course of action would be to reinstall Adobe Lr. If you still have issues, try reformatting your hdd - there's no reason you should be running slow just because of Lr (you may have run out of RAM, 4gb isn't much).
There's also the possibility that the drive is failing hence why I say to do NOTHING else except copy the files. Then he can check to see if the drive is the problem if reinstalling Lightroom doesn't do anything.