You're welcome Also, I'm not sure what type of computer and operating system you're using but most people including myself find it's faster to import photos without choosing "render standard sized previews" checked, then once all your photos have been imported, you can select them and render the previews manually. There's another option to write XMP data automatically. It's faster to turn off "write to XMP automatically", make all your changes, keywords etc, then export XMP metadata to file. Before I made these two changes in Lightroom I found the program unbearably slow.