P: Can not exit/switch Full Screen Preview (F Key) mode (LR Mac)

I'm also having the same problem. I'm a CC user with the latest version of LR. Once I hit the 'F' button the only way out is to quit. The full screen view is therefore rendered useless.
It seems that there's enough people here with a LR only issue

I too am having an issue with LR 5.4 on a macBook Pro not letting me get out of full screen mode. Very annoying. It occurs in my library and develop modules. Is there a fix in the works?

Hi,

I'm using the most current version of Lightroom 5 (for Creative Cloud subscribers) and it seems I have problems with it.

Once I go to Full size preview mode of an image, I can't go back it always stays on Full size preview, to fix it I have to "Force Quit" Lightroom, and it happens everytime I try to preview my images in Full size. I tried to reinstall the Lightroom and it didn't help. It worked properly before, not sure why the problem exists now, new update or what is the reason...

I'm also using Dreamweaver and I can't use FIND AND REPLACE tool there cause it's crashes everytime. 2 out of 3 apps I use from Adobe, are simply not working and have no idea what I can do to fix the problem.

Victoria and others,

Tom Buckley's response above is a workaround that gets you out of the F-Key loop.

Quit LR and press SHIFT+F after re-opening LR.

*Thumbs Up*

:-)

Bingo Shawn, I can reproduce that! Great job!

Henry, there is an internal bug track system, you just can't see it. 🙂 The engineers watch these public bug track forums, although often without commenting, and a number of others can also add things to the internal bug tracking once it can be reproduced.

The value of having this public forum has been highlighted in this thread - the extra bit of information about quitting while in full screen mode is crucial to reproducing the problem and therefore being able to find and fix it.

Because there is no Bug-Track-System, I'm not quite sure if Adobe knows or cares about this problem. I don't think so.

Do we know how long until they fix this? I use this feature so often and am beyond irritated.

Good catch Shawn. I was able to recreate the problem after fixing it once. I quit while in Full Screen mode and on restart the problem is back. This is definitely a bug that needs to be fixed.

This started happening again for me, after being fine for a few days. I'm pretty sure I triggered it this time by quitting LR (Cmd-Q) while in Fullscreen mode.