It may not be LR at all; take a look to see if you have any runaway processes. Run your performance monitor and see how those 4 CPUs are being used. Andrew On Tue, March 22, 2011 4:22 pm, Lea Murphy wrote: > I have been using Lightroom for quite some time and of late have been > experiencing a very, very bogged down system. > > Haven't changed anything. I'm running LR on a duel quad core 2.8 Intel > Mac Pro with 22 gigs of ram. > > > This just sort of happened out of the blue and is driving me nutty. > > > I use one catalog which contains, at this moment, 167,128 images. > > > Anyone have hints, tips or tricks on how to speed things up or where I > might go to find out how to do so? > > Thanks, > > > Lea > > > your kids . my camera . we'll click www.leamurphy.com > > > > > >