The most infuriating slow feature of LR, well maybe not the most, but it bugs me every time I start the app. The slowness with which the image counts are displayed in the Folders panel of the Library module. What is going on here? The number of files has not changed since I shut down. It isn't going to change the number if I have added files to the OS folders while it was shut down. And even if I have disconnected the library it will still display the last number of files that it knew about. This isn't a complicated DB query, and the query would not return them on a folder by folder basis, it would return the entire set and it could simply be displayed.
Sure, yeah, I know, I don't have to wait for the counts, I can select a folder and go on my merry way. It is contributing to the feel of the application. And the feel is lethargic in general
I suppose that there needs to be some reconciliation of the Catalog files to the OS Files, but does every folder need to be reconciled on startup? If I access 5% of the folders in a session it is a lot. Typically I'm working in 1 or 2. The other 100s are reconciled for naught. Maybe I simply need to have my entire computing storage space as SSDs, then this might happen in a snap... somehow I doubt it.
Are other folks experiencing this oozing of folder file counts on startup? Maybe it is just me.