When I checked the image folder PhotoLab was browsing I found lots of new dop files. This helped me realise that PhotoLab must be doing something in the background. That was until I switched to another folder of images which caused the storage drive activity to start again. After that I found I could use PhotoLab for editing and the performance problem had gone. This updating continued for a couple of hours before finally stopping. That’s when I noticed my photo storage drive was constantly updating even though I wasn’t using the PhotoLab software. I decided to launch PhotoLab on its own and watch carefully what was happening. Initially I tried searching Google and then searching the DxO forums for performance problems, but I couldn’t find anything. Clearly something had changed in the DxO PhotoLab update and was causing this performance problem. But even when the image was open its was almost impossible to make any adjustments because the PhotoLab performance was so poor. When I selected an image to edit, the image could take 1-2 minutes to open in the editing module. After that it was another couple of minutes wait before I could scroll again. Typically, it would be a couple of minutes before I could scroll down to view more images. If I tried to browse a folder using PhotoLab the thumbnails would update very slowly initially. After installing the upgrade PhotoLab was taking around 5 minutes before I could start my editing. To give some idea of the performance problem I was experiencing, let me explain what happened when I launched PhotoLab.īefore the performance problem, PhotoLab launched within about 20 seconds. Fortunately, it was easy to correct by changing one of the settings in PhotoLab. So serious in fact that it crippled the software and I couldn’t it. It followed a minor upgrade to the software (I can’t remember which one) but it was a serious problem. A little while back I experienced my first DxO Performance Problem.

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