Is there any way to remove the latest PhotoLab update? The Nik Collection loads extremely slow now. I wish I hadn’t updated. And I should know better because every update just creates new problems. Hey, maybe I should toss more money down this hole and get the next versions of both! That might solve the problem, huh?
Go to support.dxo.com and submit a bug report and ask for the previous version of the installer. Then uninstall, reinstall, and see if the problem is solved.
Ignoring your sarcasm: if you want, you can install PhotoLab 8 also, side-by-side with whatever version you’re using right now. See if it behaves better in all the respects you don’t like about PL right now.
My own experience, for what it’s worth: PL7 was terrible from its initial release until version 7.5, when some serious usability issues were fixed. Then some new bugs were introduced (and described here in this forum by other users), making me wait until version 7.8 to update it again. I’ve enjoyed using version 7.8 - no problems so far. I haven’t tried 7.9 enough to say that it’s better or worse than 7.8. But 8.0 seems very good to me so far (I’m doing the 30-day evaluation). Hopefully the bad run is over. As for the Nik Collection, I could join you in venting my frustration with DxO - it has had long-standing compatibility problems with PhotoLab that DxO won’t acknowledge, correct, rebut, or even discuss. I’ve given up on that, but continue to be pleased with PL (even if its development is slow-going).
if you kept a copy of last you could re-install it.
Hi and welcome to the user forum,
while I don’t know what versions you’re talking about, how large your file is, whether you apply noise reduction, whether your machine is suitable for the job …
when for example exporting RAW to TIFF, all of these factors come into play and it is not necessarily related to “loading” the Nik collection.
So, when you want to “roll back”, get in touch with DxO.
Thanks all. Photolab works fine. It’s Nik that seems to have a problem, and this is not the first time. I’ve gone the support route with a different Nik problem and ended up installing, running their diagnostic file, and reloading the latest update. I think I’ll wait to see if a new Nik update shows up (probably not now that the next version is available), and if so maybe that will address it.