"I have tryied multiple times to deselect the ""Store presets with this catalog"   In the previous catalog, was that the setting you were using?   ... View more

Inquiry's : What drive is your catalog on? The hard drive that your catalog is on. How large is that drive, and how much free space remains? Looking for at least 20% free, some say 25% What drive is your backup on? The hard drive you are backing up to. How large is that drive, and how much free space? How large (file space) is the catalog? ... View more

A screenshot of what you are looking at may be helpful   ... View more

In that screenshot, bottom left, in the Windows taskbar,  what is that alert? Apparently 3 issues. Is an OS issue occurring? ... View more

Are you saying that the thumbnails at the bottom, the filmstrip, are not showing up? Could the bottom be hidden?  A screenshot shared with the community might be of help..   Also, in the Library module, in grid view, are the previews showing up?     ... View more

Ohh, also, in that first screenshot, in the Adobe Creative Clod Desktop. Over on the left, select Home, then over on the right, select manage plan. What plan is reported as subscribed to at the Adobe site? ... View more

In that first screenshot, notice the popup stating a new version of the Adobe Creative cloud Desktop is available. Have you now updated it? ... View more

When you have WiFi on. Ok, do you also have a wired LAN connection, as to connect to your LAN but not via WiFi? This as to see if the issue is the WiFi, the WifI port on your MAC, or your LAN. Not an absolute test, but...   Also, perhaps go to a coffee shop, or some wears with free WiFi, and test.   Looking to see if their is a hardware, or LAN issue. ... View more

Notice the ! in the thumbnails, are your images missing? ... View more

Library Path: C:\Users\olgat\Pictures\Screwit\Screwit.lrcat   On that C drive, how much (qualitative) free space in percent (%) remains? Looking for at least 20%, some say 25% ... View more

" I didn't make these extra catalogs intentionally, but I see they are named like Catalog 2-v10 and catalog v12-2 as examples, so I'm thinking they might be resulting from various version updates?"   Sound like old catalogs via LrC upgrades. Their should be no reason to import from the old catalogs into the latest if that is the case. You may need to consider if they are in fact old and possibly no longer needed versions.   Be careful.   If you are nervous about deleting them, then perhaps consider moving them to a external hard drive for archive.   Not an Adobe employee, so take the above with caution.   "Running Lightroom classic 13.0.1 "   Understand that LrC before v14 used to create upgraded catalogs in the way you are describing. But at v14 that has changed, instead a copy is created and placed in a folder, and the new upgrade is created with the same name as the previous.  ... View more

Moderator Can you relocate this posting to the correct community. ... View more

Also consider laptops designed for creative use. These laptops are designed for such use as LrC, and other applications. BUT, think very big dollars for them. These will be top end Intel CPU units, will have top in GPU, lots of RAM. lots of VRAM.   One product to avoid is any SNAPDRAGON CPU unit. Avoid any WOS/CoPilot/ARM Devices  Big trouble running LrC on those. Searching this website on snapdragon will show you the issues that have been ongoing for a couple of years and not resolved. ... View more

9% free? that would be a huge issue. Consider placing the catalog on another hard drive.   The catalog can take advantage of being on your fastest hard drive. Disadvantage of being on a hard drive lacking free space. The Camera RAW CACHE can take advantage of being on a fast hard drive. At such a low amount of free space it might have issues. The Camera RAW CACHE does not have to be on the same hard drive as the catalog. Some Windows users consider not locating it on the C drive as that might compete for hard drive read/wrights with the Paging file. Tyically a minor issue, unless say your diwn to very little hard drive space. The location for your photos can be any connected hard drive. Their is no advantage for them being on a fast hard drive. Some might locate them on a different hard drive than the catalog if they are looking for free space in the hard drive the catalog is on. Make sure to relocate them via LrC, not via Windows Explorer. you might want to look at hard drive usage while LrC is running, It might be approaching zero during edits. ... View more

Can you share two bits of information:   1. I see your catalog is on your C drive. How much free space in percent (%) exists on that hard drive? Looking for at least 20%, some say 25%free.   2. Can you share a screenshot of your LrC /preferences/performance/ tab. Mostly interested in the Camera RAW CACHE setting. Looking to see that it is not set to the default value of 5 GB.   ... View more

Following may have nothing to all to do with your problem, however, Notice that you have some plugin duplicates, or more specifically, older versions. The DXO Pure RAW for example. This might not hurt performance, but, your catalog is a database and may not take kindly to clutter. You may want to consider removing the older copy's. ... View more

Bring up your Adobe Creative Cloud Desktop App. Are you signed In? If not, why not? Sometimes it may be called for to intentionally sign out, then sign in, paying attention for any errors/issues, and crossing your fingers that signing in works and everything magically works.   Note that normally, their is no reason to sign out in the Adobe Creative Cloud Desktop App. ... View more

Consider creating a mask, perhaps an object mask, and add additional objects into the mask, as opposed to creating individual object masks. ... View more

Click on Help, then System Info. Interested in the following line:   License: Creative Cloud     ... View more

You will need to contact Adobe and request a link to an install that will work on your OS.   ... View more

Please post your System Information as Lightroom Classic (LrC) reports it. In LrC click on Help, then System Info, then Copy. Paste that information into a reply. Please present all information from the first line down to and including Plug-in Info. Info after Plug-in info can be cut out, as that is just so much dead space to us non-Techs, and it takes up vast amounts of scroll space, making the reply less readable and less likely that others will bother with your post. ... View more

What does the History Panel show?   ... View more

You can also create a preset based on an existing mask, but it would be nicer to create it at the point that you select the Landscape masking option. ... View more

Only way I know of is to start a single (not batch) merge, and change the setting in the Merge box, merge, then continue in batch. ... View more

Two items/info to add.   It appears this behavior is not consistent. The last Merge I accomplished did not result in this behavior. An Import (ADD) of old DNG images (converted from RAF) resulted in all the imports being flagged as rejected. It appears to be an odd metadata issue??? Note post import, I inspected my import settings and found no preset or other setting that would result in reject flags.   ... View more

Looks like you are attempting to open a backup. I say that because of the zip file type. If you want to open a LrC backup, then you need to un-zip it, and typically move the un-zip copy to some other hard drive and/or folder. ... View more

Have you attempted again, perhaps several hours or perhaps a day later? It could be an issue at Adobe. ... View more