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I thought it was me who was struggling on with old kit. I don't think I can run Mojave so I may have hit the buffers too, the initial beta release refused, although there was some mention of later compatibility for the MacPro 5.1's. I will wait for the final public release before I try again.
One saving grace is that the earlier Mac Pro's can take PCIe cards and should run PCIe mounted SSD's directly to the processor, as I described elsewhere. That has transformed my MacPro, it's again responsive and very quick. The PCIe cards are quite cheap and simple, they don't need drivers or any software, they just work. I run two 250 GB SSD's, one with the OS on it, the other with my Lightroom catalogues, previews and my 'recent' image files, currently all my 2018 images and Christophers 2018 images.
Putting the Lightroom 'lrcat' files on the SSD was a real winner, it transformed Lightroom. Previously I was scrolling through images in library mode and the beach ball would pop up way too frequently, far too slow for comfort. After transferring the Lightroom 'lrcat' and preview files to the SSD I could wiz through a full year of images as fast as I could scroll them through, with no beach balls at all in Library mode.
My Mp boots in about 25 seconds, from gong to sign in. Up to the gong the startup checks are taking place, the actual loading of the OS doesn't start until after the gong.
Looking on the bright side the current functionality of Lightroom and Photoshop are pretty good. I think Adobe are concentrating on playing catch up with the cloud version of Lr.
I do find the 'Auto' adjustments in Lr are a great time saver to a starting point for individual adjustments.
The Lr geometry feature almost gives view camera functionality geometry wise. Even more so if you need barrel or pincushion adjustment, what strikes me about that feature is that it's so accessible, we have the same functionality in Ps but it's not as easy to use. Probably more powerful but for a quick geometry adjustment the Lr version wins for me.
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Robert.