13.1: Migration from Lightroom is VERY slow. Old version 13.0.4.10 is fine
I am a brand new Capture One user and have begun moving over several Lightroom catalogs. While everything else has been great, the import process for bringing in Lightroom catalogs under 13.1 are incredibly slow on my iMac Pro.
The initial import time (yes, it's a big catalog. 208,419 items) was calculated at around ~36 hours. After 24 hours, it increased to 48 hours. A brownout hit my house on the third day, and I started the process again while reading these forums.
After seeing the notes on version 13.1, I looked through the internet for an older version of Capture One (hey, support team! You need to allow downloads of older versions from the same product, not offer a download of 13.1 and 12). I found a copy of 13.0.4.10.
And what do you know? The same Lightroom catalog has an estimated import time of 7 hours and it is decreasing rapidly. Yes, it's still a very big catalog -- but the older version estimates 7 hours vs 36. That's a big difference!
Please fix the Lightroom -> C1 migration under 13.1. It's broken. As a new user, I haven't explored much beyond this just yet.
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Hi Mathew,
I am surprised the migration from Lr to Capture One 13.0 would take only 7 hours for more than 200,000 items. When I did it (with Capture One 8), it took a full night for my the 15,000 images. Building the previews was the longest step, actually.
Please tell us if you succeeded in importing your full catalog : it's really a challenge for Capture One to import and manage a so huge catalog !
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I'll report back when the import is complete. Perhaps there are additional stages?
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Yes, there are : as mentioned above, the building of the previews.
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I imported ~35500 images from a Lightroom Catalogue on my 2014 Retina MacBook (8GB, 1TB SDD), I think the import took over 12 hours and then it was very sluggish for quite a while when generating previews.
I don't have a problem with one-offs like that - it it more annoying getting Pizza wheel when making adjustments which happens now and then.
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The import completed well past 8 hours, nearly 24 hours later. For >200,000 photos, using 13.0.4.10 was much, much faster than 13.1 (the import did not complete by day 3). This was a new import, into a new library file, so no previous import was preserved/continued.
As I am a new user, I am exploring Capture One for the first time. I'm hoping all else will be well, as using the software has been a pleasure. I do believe there is a serious import bug (at least with Lightroom -> C1) that specifically affects 13.1.
Question for the seasoned users: How do I identify what 14 files were skipped during import? I don't see this in the event log, but I'll start searching forums and help material to see if this answer is somewhere..
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