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dadod
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April 2, 2012

P: Book Module – Unfinished book vanishes

  • April 2, 2012
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I’m creating my first Blurb book inside of Lightroom 4. There are some 175 images in my collection/filmstrip. I was about 80% complete with the book, when I selected an image to go into the Development Module for adjustments. When done I returned to the Book Module. But the book was gone! The filmstrip at the bottom of the page is there indicating images are in the book, but the book itself is empty with only a cover and two blank pages. If I add an already “used” image, the filmstrip counter goes from 1 to 2.

Trying to fix this problem, I backed up and optimized my catalog. But upon restarting Lightroom no change... and no book!

Any suggestions as how to get my book back? Or do I have to start over!

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    Pete.Green
    Community Manager
    Pete.GreenCommunity Manager
    October 9, 2012
    This link should work: http://blogs.adobe.com/lightroomjourn...
    Brett N
    Adobe Employee
    Brett N
    Adobe Employee
    October 9, 2012
    You're right.

    Jeff, can you edit your post, there is an extra character at the end of your link:
    blogs.adobe.com/lightroomjournal/2012/10/help-with-disappearing-books-in-lightroom-4.html%EF%BB%BF. This is creating a square at the end of the URL.

    If anyone wants to get to this link before we get this fixed, just click the link and go to your address bar and delete the last character and Go.
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    FeedbackCommunityMember
    Inspiring
    October 9, 2012
    Jeffrey, I clicked on the link but it said page not found.
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    J453
    Legend
    October 9, 2012
    Sharad, the product manager for Lightroom, has just posted an update as blog entry on this book issue. It includes specifics on what can cause it and how to avoid it. Thanks to the help of Marko and few other users the team has tracked down a reproducible case/steps that the team can use to nail down a more permanent fix in a future update to Lightroom 4:

    http://blogs.adobe.com/lightroomjourn...
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    Alan-Shapiro-Photography
    Participant
    October 3, 2012
    Brett,
    I have been working for the past 100 hours or so on a 200+ page book in the book module in LR4.
    2 things to try:
    I went to look at an alternate size for my "saved" book (been working on it for a few weeks now) Deleted the duplicate and went back to my original book which now showed a full filmstrip (including the usage numbers showing me that all of the images had been used including a tiny 2 for a cover image) and the 4 blank pages we all see upon starting a project. My entire book was gone. Poof!
    I'm surprised you didn't hear my scream all the way in San Jose.
    This couldn't be...I had officially saved the book several weeks ago when I first began it and had been working on it steadily ever since. (For the record, I am working on a Mac OS X v10.7.5 and updated LR to v4.2.)
    I can't begin to tell you the sick feeling over losing this amount of work. I went to your LR forums to see if this was unique to me (Did I inadvertently hit a button I shouldn't have?) I have always felt very confidant in LR's "saving" and "backup" abilities. Now I am devastated and have lost total confidence. Do I try again in LR or move to another program?
    When I opened my most recent backup of LR, all the text was missing and many of the images were in color (this is a book of monochrome imagery) Huh? When I went into my Time Capsule backups, same thing. No text and many images were reset to original RAW files as if no post-processing had been done. Huh? (Again)
    Brett N
    Adobe Employee
    Brett N
    Adobe Employee
    September 19, 2012
    We'd love to find a fix for this as well. But right now we are still looking for the cause.
    Brett N
    Adobe Employee
    Brett N
    Adobe Employee
    September 19, 2012
    The problem hasn't been ignored, but as I explained before we can't go into the application code and make random changes to try to fix this. There is nothing in the code that says "Corrupt book = on".

    In order to fix something, you have to test it. And in a test you say: does it work or does it not work. For us, without making any changes, we run a test and the result is: it works. Without being able to reproduce the issue on our side, we cannot proceed with any further testing. We know that it is happening for some people, but try as we might, even following the exact same steps as others running into this, the behavior doesn't happen on our side.

    Obviously, something triggers the behavior, but if it is a certain set of steps within the application, we haven't found the formula yet. It could be something else entirely, like some attribute of the files used in the book, or settings on the book, or something entirely exterior to Lightroom altogether.
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    FeedbackCommunityMember
    Inspiring
    September 17, 2012
    Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4.1 - Library Module - Vanishing Book Bug

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXICvR...
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    FeedbackCommunityMember
    Inspiring
    September 17, 2012
    There you go:

    http://youtu.be/uXICvRYjEVM

    Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4.1 - Library Module - Vanishing Book Bug
    In a step by Step video!

    Good Luck Adobe!
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    FeedbackCommunityMember
    Inspiring
    September 17, 2012
    Got the step by step video on this bug... I try this with the same book 5 times, and it work to recreate the problem..

    Uploading the Video now...
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