High Sierra photo editing slow

Now that Apple has announced MacOS Mojave, I suggest that everyone having the slow editing problem with Photos consider signing up for the public beta once it becomes available. In the event that Apple never fixes this in High Sierra, there is always a chance that Mojave will address the issue if enough people provide feedback.

Yeah I’m hanging out for an update! Totally stalled on all my photo retouching etc☹ It’s a shame Apple doesn’t engage in these support group conversations...

Yup, hasn't gotten much better for me. Gave up and went back to using Lightroom.

I also have this same problem on my 15 inch early 2013 rMBP with nVidia GT650M. But I am fine on my MBA with Intel HD5000 graphics. So, I think there is problem in Metal2 of High Sierra

What version of the OS do you have? Some people have reported that High Sierra 10.13.2 resolves crashing

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Please Apple can you tell me my options

Apple is not here - this is strictly a user to user forum with experienced users helping others

Go into your local Apple Store or contact Apple

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one (of many) reasons that referenced photos are not recommended with Photos -- :Disadvantages of a Referenced Library in Photos

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I have this very same issue but it doesn't seem to be limited to just editing. When I'm viewing just one picture and I attempt to go to the next picture, it tends to freeze. In-fact, the whole computer freezes for a good 30 to 45 seconds. This never happened in 10.12 version of Photos. Most of my pictures are DNG files too.

I'm attaching report out of EtreCheck as I've heard that some of the support personnel like to use them for more information about systems having issues.

EtreCheck version: 3.4.5 (455)

Report generated 2017-10-04 22:15:01

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Runtime: 4:33

Performance: Good

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Problem: Computer is too slow

Description:

New Apple Photos App is running very slow and sometimes locks up the entire computer. Does it for DNG and JPG images.

Hardware Information: ⓘ

iMac (Retina 5K, 27-inch, Late 2015)

[Technical Specifications] - [User Guide] - [Warranty & Service]

iMac - model: iMac17,1

1 3.2 GHz Intel Core i5 (i5-6500) CPU: 4-core

8 GB RAM Upgradeable - [Instructions]

BANK 0/DIMM0

4 GB DDR3 1867 MHz ok

BANK 0/DIMM1

Empty

BANK 1/DIMM0

4 GB DDR3 1867 MHz ok

BANK 1/DIMM1

Empty

Handoff/Airdrop2: supported

Wireless: en1: 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac

iCloud Quota: 85.24 GB available

Video Information: ⓘ

AMD Radeon R9 M390 - VRAM: 2 GB

iMac 5120 x 2880

Disk Information: ⓘ

APPLE HDD ST1000DM003 disk1: (1 TB) (Rotational)

[Show SMART report]

EFI (disk1s1 - MS-DOS FAT32) <not mounted> [EFI]: 210 MB

(disk1s2) <not mounted> [CoreStorage Container]: 999.35 GB

(disk1s3) <not mounted> [Recovery]: 650 MB

APPLE SSD AP0032H disk0: (24 GB) (Solid State - TRIM: Yes)

(disk0s1) <not mounted> [EFI]: 315 MB

(disk0s2) <not mounted> [CoreStorage Container]: 23.55 GB

(disk0s3) <not mounted> [Boot]: 134 MB

USB Information: ⓘ

USB30Bus

GenesysLogic USB3.0 Hub

Generic USB Storage

GenesysLogic USB2.0 Hub

Broadcom Corp. Bluetooth USB Host Controller

Apple Inc. FaceTime HD Camera (Built-in)

Logitech USB-PS/2 Optical Mouse

Apple Inc. MacBook Air SuperDrive

Thunderbolt Information: ⓘ

Apple Inc. thunderbolt_bus

BUFFALO INC. HD-PATU3

ST1000LM024 HN-M101MBB disk4: (1 TB) (Rotational)

[Show SMART report]

(disk4s1) <not mounted> [partition_map]: 32 KB

PhotoDrive01 (disk4s3 - Journaled HFS+) /Volumes/PhotoDrive01 : 1.00 TB (491.14 GB free)

Virtual disks: ⓘ

Macintosh HD (disk2 - Journaled HFS+) / [Startup]: 1.02 TB (212.50 GB free)

Physical disk: disk0s2 23.55 GB Online

Physical disk: disk1s2 999.35 GB Online

System Software: ⓘ

macOS High Sierra 10.13 (17A365) - Time since boot: about 7 days

Gatekeeper: ⓘ

Mac App Store and identified developers

Kernel Extensions: ⓘ

/Applications/VMware Horizon Client.app

[not loaded] com.vmware.kext.vmioplug.17.2.1 (17.2.1) [Lookup]

/Library/Application Support/VirtualBox

[not loaded] org.virtualbox.kext.VBoxDrv (5.1.14) [Lookup]

[not loaded] org.virtualbox.kext.VBoxNetAdp (5.1.14) [Lookup]

[not loaded] org.virtualbox.kext.VBoxNetFlt (5.1.14) [Lookup]

[not loaded] org.virtualbox.kext.VBoxUSB (5.1.14) [Lookup]

/Library/Extensions

[loaded] com.AmbrosiaSW.AudioSupport (4.1.4 - SDK 10.11) [Lookup]

[loaded] com.Logitech.Control Center.HID Driver (3.9.5 - SDK 10.8) [Lookup]

[not loaded] com.Logitech.Unifying.HID Driver (1.3.5 - SDK 10.8) [Lookup]

[loaded] com.logitech.manager.kernel.driver (6.62.1 - SDK 10.11) [Lookup]

/System/Library/Extensions

[loaded] com.valvesoftware.SteamInput (3083.39.61 - SDK 10.8) [Lookup]

System Launch Agents: ⓘ

[not loaded] 8 Apple tasks

[loaded] 169 Apple tasks

[running] 78 Apple tasks

[killed] 33 Apple tasks

33 processes killed due to insufficient RAM

System Launch Daemons: ⓘ

[not loaded] 36 Apple tasks

[loaded] 165 Apple tasks

[running] 88 Apple tasks

[killed] 39 Apple tasks

39 processes killed due to insufficient RAM

Launch Agents: ⓘ

[running] com.Logitech.Control Center.Daemon.plist (Logitech Inc. - installed 2016-12-17) [Lookup]

[not loaded] com.adobe.AAM.Updater-1.0.plist (Adobe Systems, Inc. - installed 2017-10-04) [Lookup]

[failed] com.adobe.AdobeCreativeCloud.plist (Adobe Systems, Inc. - installed 2017-10-04) [Lookup]

[loaded] com.cisco.anyconnect.gui.plist (? 40bd3462 0 - installed 2017-10-04) [Lookup]

[running] com.logitech.manager.daemon.plist (Logitech Inc. - installed 2017-07-29) [Lookup]

[loaded] com.oracle.java.Java-Updater.plist (? 9e367439 be93c7fb - installed 2017-07-20) [Lookup]

[running] com.symless.synergy.v2.synergyd.plist (Synergy Si Ltd - installed 2017-09-28) [Lookup]

Launch Daemons: ⓘ

[running] com.adobe.acc.installer.plist (Adobe Systems, Inc. - installed 2017-10-04) [Lookup]

[running] com.adobe.agsservice.plist (Adobe Systems, Inc. - installed 2017-09-27) [Lookup]

[loaded] com.adobe.fpsaud.plist (? 2afb3af7 6e45fe59 - installed 2016-12-10) [Lookup]

[not loaded] com.apple.installer.cleanupinstaller.plist (? 1963bf56 0 - installed 2017-09-25)

[running] com.cisco.anyconnect.vpnagentd.plist (? f363637f d52acebb - installed 2017-06-20) [Lookup]

[not loaded] com.crashplan.engine.plist (? 0 ? - installed 2017-06-13) [Lookup]

[running] com.microsoft.autoupdate.helper.plist (Microsoft Corporation - installed 2017-09-25) [Lookup]

[loaded] com.microsoft.office.licensingV2.helper.plist (Microsoft Corporation - installed 2016-12-09) [Lookup]

[loaded] com.oracle.java.Helper-Tool.plist (Shell Script e3fefdd2 - installed 2017-07-12) [Lookup]

[loaded] com.symless.synergy.v2.ServiceHelper.plist (Synergy Si Ltd - installed 2017-09-28) [Lookup]

User Launch Agents: ⓘ

[loaded] com.google.keystone.agent.plist (Google, Inc. - installed 2017-07-10) [Lookup]

[running] com.spotify.webhelper.plist (Spotify - installed 2017-08-29) [Lookup]

[not loaded] org.virtualbox.vboxwebsrv.plist (Oracle America, Inc. - installed 2017-03-02) [Lookup]

User Login Items: ⓘ

CrashPlan menu bar Application

(/Applications/CrashPlan.app/Contents/Helpers/CrashPlan menu bar.app)

iTunesHelper Application (? 0 - installed 2017-09-13)

(/Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/MacOS/iTunesHelper.app)

Internet Plug-ins: ⓘ

FlashPlayer-10.6: 24.0.0.186 (installed 2016-12-14) [Lookup]

Flash Player: 24.0.0.186 (installed 2016-12-14) Outdated! Update

QuickTime Plugin: 7.7.3 (installed 2017-09-20)

JavaAppletPlugin: Java 8 Update 141 build 15 (installed 2017-07-20) Check version

AdobeAAMDetect: 3.0.0.0 (installed 2017-10-04) [Lookup]

MeetingJoinPlugin: 1.0 (installed 2017-08-11) [Lookup]

Safari Extensions: ⓘ

[disabled] Adblock Plus - Eyeo GmbH - https://adblockplus.org/ (installed 2017-01-29)

[disabled] Dashlane - Dashlane Inc. - http://www.dashlane.com (installed 2017-09-22)

3rd Party Preference Panes: ⓘ

Flash Player (installed 2016-12-10) [Lookup]

Java (installed 2017-07-20) [Lookup]

Logitech Control Center (installed 2016-12-17) [Lookup]

Logi Options Launcher (installed 2017-07-29) [Lookup]

Time Machine: ⓘ

Time Machine not configured!

Top Processes by CPU: ⓘ

3% Safari

3% com.apple.WebKit.WebContent

2% WindowServer

2% kernel_task

1% hidd

Top Processes by Memory: ⓘ

1.17 GB kernel_task

442 MB com.apple.photos.ImageConversionService

240 MB CrashPlanService

231 MB com.apple.WebKit.WebContent

211 MB Adobe Bridge CC 2017

Top Processes by Network Use: ⓘ

Input Output Process name

33 MB 6 MB mDNSResponder

18 KB 27 MB CrashPlanService

621 KB 94 KB com.apple.WebKit.Networking

499 KB 132 KB netbiosd

40 KB 69 KB apsd

Top Processes by Energy Use: ⓘ

19.08 Adobe Bridge CC 2017

3.28 AppleSpell

2.56 com.apple.WebKit.WebContent

2.32 mobileassetd

Virtual Memory Information: ⓘ

3.71 GB Available RAM

1.63 GB Free RAM

4.29 GB Used RAM

2.08 GB Cached files

610 MB Swap Used

Software installs: ⓘ

Cyberduck: 6.2.6 (installed 2017-09-11)

Cyberduck: 6.2.6 (installed 2017-09-11)

Slack: 2.8.0 (installed 2017-09-14)

Slack: 2.8.0 (installed 2017-09-14)

Microsoft AutoUpdate: (installed 2017-09-25)

Pixelmator: 3.6 (installed 2017-09-26)

Microsoft Remote Desktop: 8.0.27325 (installed 2017-09-30)

Microsoft Excel for Mac: (installed 2017-10-02)

Microsoft PowerPoint for Mac: (installed 2017-10-02)

AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client: (installed 2017-10-04)

RAWPower: 1.2.1 (installed 2017-10-04)

PhotoScape X: 2.6.3 (installed 2017-10-04)

digiKam-5.7.0-02-MacOS-x86-64: (installed 2017-10-04)

Install information may not be complete.

Diagnostics Information: ⓘ

2017-10-04 21:41:35 Adobe Bridge CC 2017.app High CPU use [Open] [Details]

2017-10-04 21:09:47 Synergy.app Crash [Open]

Cause: abort() called

terminating with uncaught exception of type boost::exception_detail::clone_impl<boost::exception_detail::error_info_injecto r<boost::system::system_error> >: bind: Address already in use

2017-10-04 20:15:39 digikam.app High CPU use [Open] [Details]

2017-10-04 19:55:13 Photo Mechanic 5.app Hang [Open]

2017-10-02 22:32:00 Adobe CEF Helper.app Crash [Open]

2017-09-27 22:15:21 Last shutdown cause: 3 - Hard shutdown

My 2012 MacBook pro is doing the same. Almost all editing is slow and just basically useless cause it takes so long. Photos also quits unexpectedly a lot now. All this started when I upgraded to High Sierra. Any help would be appreciated.

I get that, but a product shouldn't be designed as such to impact the usability of the system. The core part of the OS allows for priority of processes to run (nice value as an example). In my case, it was locking the computer completely up, on a brand new iMac. I had similar performance issues with my MacBook Pro. Sad to say that my perception of Apple products are moving away from the well-polished user experience and more towards the fragmented and inconsistent experience.

Have these exact same issues as described above on my 5K iMac with 24gb of RAM! Very frustrating - this needs to be fixed, It would be one thing if Photos just halted - but it hangs the whole system which is so like working in '90s on Windows 98 or OS 9. Really unacceptable. Welcome to iOS being the money maker and macOS getting B team attention.

I'm having the very same issues. It is taking too long to do simple edits. I almost wish I wouldn't have upgraded to High Sierra because of this. When you work with large numbers of photos, and it takes so long just to do a simple retouch it's frustrating. And then a few seconds later is looks different again.

Glad it's not just me. I've timed myself editing a photo. A quick crop and knocking down the highlights, a 10 second job before. Now it's taking 1 minute 36 - in which time the computer freezes entirely so there is nothing else I can do.

i had the same problem after update my macBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Late 2013).i cant work and fix my photos..evertything is so slow after update macos high sierra....any solution about this problem?????