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April 23, 2015

P: Negative Values Bug (German)

  • April 23, 2015
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LR 6:

Cannot enter negative values e.g. for lighting in Development (e.g., -1,0); sets always to zero.
Works if I just move the slider; positive values ("+1", "1") work also.

(MacOS 10.10.3)

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Rikk Flohr_Photography
Community Manager
June 16, 2015
This was fixed in the CC 2015.1 / 6.1 Update.
Rikk Flohr: Adobe Photography Org
Participating Frequently
May 21, 2015
Yeah, i've done that and now I have my Dutch back, but lost my negative numbers... There's another string, quite similar that says "$$$/AgUI/TextField/MinusReplacement=^U+2212 " I removed (and placed back) the space also. But both didn't help. Luckily I can use the English version, waiting for an update...
When it's really bothering me I consider re-downloading it... I can't belief I'm the only one with this problem?
Tina
johnrellis
Legend
May 21, 2015
If you saved the original nl.lproj/TranslatedStrings.txt, put it back in place and restart LR. If that doesn't work, perhaps you'll need to re-download and reinstall.
Participating Frequently
May 21, 2015
I did, but it doesn't work! I can change it into any other language that I'm capable of (quite a few, to be honest), but not into Dutch. Any more advice?
Tina
johnrellis
Legend
May 21, 2015
Double-check that Preferences > General > Language is set to Dutch.
Participating Frequently
May 21, 2015
Problem again: now the whole program is in English instead of the original Dutch... What to do next?
Tina
Participating Frequently
May 21, 2015
I' have been trying to follow this steps exactly. But first: the Contents folder is a hidden one. I made it visible by rightclicking on the Adobe Lightroom.app -> 'show package' (in Dutch that'd called 'toon pakketinhoud")->Contents->Resources-nl.lproj (or for exemple in French it says fr.lproj)->TranslatedStrings.txt

The list that's being shown is in fact much longer then you think. Rightclick on the TranslatedStrings.txt and really open it in TextEdit, there you can find the string. After deleting the mentioned space the system tells you to make a kopie: it won't allow you to change the original. Get rid of that original (maybe save it somewhere) and leave the kopie in place. Start Lightroom again and everything works! Quite a relief I must say. But rather complicated for those not familiar in doing someting 'under the hood' I expect...
Tina
johnrellis
Legend
May 21, 2015
[Reposting Simon Chen (employee)'s workaround, since the silly forum software is now collapsing his comment and people are missing it]

Ok, I found the bug. The bug would appear if you set the Lr UI language preference to certain local languages such as German, Dutch etc. There is a mistranslation in one of the translated strings.

1. If your UI language is German, open the following TranslatedStrings.txt file in TextEdit on Mac OSX:

/Applications/Adobe Lightroom/Adobe Lightroom.app/Contents/Resources/de.lproj/TranslatedStrings.txt

2. Make a copy of the file so that you can revert to if you did something wrong in the following.

3. Find the text line text that looks like this

"$$$/AgUI/TextField/MinusReplacementNoSpace=^U+2212 "

4. Remove the extra space after the ^U+2212. The result would look like

"$$$/AgUI/TextField/MinusReplacementNoSpace=^U+2212"

5. Save your change to the original file named TranslatedStrings.txt.

Relaunch Lightroom and the bug would be fixed.

If you run into the same issue in other local language, you should look for TranslatedStrings.txt for your specific language at step 1. It is in a similar subfolder structure inside /Applications/Adobe Lightroom/Adobe Lightroom.app/Contents/Resources/. Something looks lie /Applications/Adobe Lightroom/Adobe Lightroom.app/Contents/Resources/[replace_with_your_two_letter_language_code].lproj
Participating Frequently
May 13, 2015
Same (very irritating) problem here in the Netherlands - Dutch language. You seriously don't want me to enter under the hood, do you? I have no clue how to find and manage the code you mentioned... Can't you just repair this in a soon to expect update?
Tina
Known Participant
April 26, 2015
My Mac OS X system preference language is Japanese.