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nico.kaiser
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August 19, 2015

P: Develop module doesn't detect external changes to original file

  • August 19, 2015
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When i choose "edit original" in Photoshop then the LR develop module doesn't reload the image after i saved the tif in Photoshop. But the library module DOES refresh. So i end up with different previews in library and develop. Only solution is to restart LR. After the restart i can see the current preview in develop module too.

Steps to reproduce:
- Open your raw file (i use dng) in LR.
- Choose "edit in Adope Photoshop". Make some changes and save. Lightroom will automatically import the created tif file. Switch to develop module in LR
- Now make another change in PS and save.
- LR should detect that change to the tif file and refresh the preview. Maybe you need to switch to the next image and back to have LR refresh the image. But it should work.
- Now close LR and PS.
- Start LR again.
- Select the tif file again, switch to develop module and choose "edit original" in Photoshop.
- Make changes in PS and save.
- LR will not refresh the preview in the develop module! But it will refresh the library module. You will now see different versions of your file in develop and library until you restart LR.

tested with Lightroom: CC 2015.1.1 and PS CC 2015.0.1 on Windows on two different machines.

This is a real pain for me since i often switch between PS and LR!

This worked flawlessly before LR CC.

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53 replies

Known Participant
November 20, 2015
I have also no tried completely uninstalling and re-installing and that did not resolve the problem.

Observations:
Filmpack 5 creates and imports a tiff copy of the file when selecting edit with LR adjustments...then opens its program to make alterations and saves out the file back to disk

LR does not refresh the image even though the file on disk is different than the file currently stored in memory. At times the film strip will flash the changes, but when the image is selected it will revert to the in memory version rather then reloading the image from file.

In LR 5 and earlier, these changes were picked up immediately when returning back to LR from the DxO filmpack software.
Known Participant
November 19, 2015
I am using DxO filmpack 5 and PS CC Win 10 and see my previous for system info
Legend
November 19, 2015
Which app or plug-in are you making changes in?

What OS/version are you running on?

Can you go to Help>System Info... and let me know what the first line of text is in that dialog?
Known Participant
November 19, 2015
Lightroom version: CC 2015.3 [ 1052427 ]
License: Creative Cloud
Operating system: Windows 10
Version: 10.0
Application architecture: x64
System architecture: x64
Logical processor count: 8
Processor speed: 2.2 GHz
Built-in memory: 12241.7 MB
Real memory available to Lightroom: 12241.7 MB
Real memory used by Lightroom: 855.8 MB (6.9%)
Virtual memory used by Lightroom: 813.6 MB
Memory cache size: 312.4 MB
Maximum thread count used by Camera Raw: 8
Camera Raw SIMD optimization: SSE2,AVX
System DPI setting: 96 DPI
Desktop composition enabled: Yes
Displays: 1) 1920x1080
Input types: Multitouch: No, Integrated touch: No, Integrated pen: No, External touch: No, External pen: No, Keyboard: No

Graphics Processor Info:
GeForce GTX 660M/PCIe/SSE2

Check OpenGL support: Passed
Vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
Version: 3.3.0 NVIDIA 353.54
Renderer: GeForce GTX 660M/PCIe/SSE2
LanguageVersion: 3.30 NVIDIA via Cg compiler

Application folder: C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Lightroom
Library Path: C:\Users\Clark\Pictures\2015\2015-2.lrcat
Settings Folder: C:\Users\Clark\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Lightroom

Installed Plugins:
1) Canon Tether Plugin
2) Export to Photomatix Pro
3) Facebook
4) Flickr
5) jf SmugMug
6) Leica Tether Plugin
7) Nikon Tether Plugin
8) SmugMug

Config.lua flags: None

Adapter #1: Vendor : 10de
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nico.kaiser
Known Participant
November 19, 2015
Sure you got the LR Update installed?
Works without problems here now...
Known Participant
November 19, 2015
Well I downloaded this last night and I still have this problem after the upgrade. I have logged in and out of my account many times,and still I have to restart LR to pick up changes...unless I wait for several hours .

When is this thing going to be fixed. It worked fine in LR 5.
nico.kaiser
Known Participant
November 17, 2015
I can't wait to get home now 😉
Legend
November 17, 2015
This issue should be corrected by the Lightroom CC 2015.3/6.3 which is available today.

Details here: http://blogs.adobe.com/lightroomjourn...
Known Participant
November 16, 2015
I have not seen a problem in any other formats other than tiff, but if I use any external editor call from the LR development module when the file is saved out of that external editor and things return back to LR those changes are not showing up until lightroom is restarted.

Win10 LR CC

Lightroom version: CC 2015.2.1 [ 1046594 ]
License: Creative Cloud
Operating system: Windows 10
Version: 10.0
Application architecture: x64

External editors include Photoshop CC latest current release and DxO Labs filmpack 5. I have reported this bug since moving to LRCC and it appears again that it still has not been addressed. When will this get fixed?
Inspiring
November 16, 2015


After the latest update to Lightroom CC 2015 6.1, once a .tif file is updated in photoshop, the image will not update in the develop module unless you restart Lightroom. It seems to work fine in the library module.