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Carlos_Oliveras
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August 22, 2018

P: Placing photos on Map module erratic and slow since update LR Classic CC 7.5 (Windows)

  • August 22, 2018
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I geotag photos on a daily basis, and today, after updating LR Classic CC to version 7.5, I was going to resume my geotagging tasks as usual, but then I started to experience weird issues when placing photos on the map.

Most of the time, the problem is that I drag the photo from the filmstrip to the map (in the Map module, of course), and nothing happens (no photo on the map, no gps coordinates in the metadata). If I drag and hold the photo over the map for a few seconds before releasing the mouse button, sometimes it does place the photo.

I would say it's even more difficult when I select several photos and try to place them on the same spot at once, but I can't say absolutely for sure.

Also, selecting the photo (or photos) and then Ctrl+clicking (Windows) on the map to place them stopped working altogether as soon as I updated to 7.5, no matter how long I kept the keys or mouse button pressed down, or how many times I tried (previously, I was using this shortcut dozens of times a day).

Since I do need to keep geotagging photos, and with v7.5 it was much more difficult, I've downgraded to 7.4 and now things are working ok again. Of course I can't absolutely say for sure that this is an universal issue but... this is what's happening on my system. Any idea what could be going on? Thanks.

My first 10 lines in Help>Sytem info:

Lightroom Classic version: 7.5 [ 1186149 ]
License: Creative Cloud
Language setting: en
Operating system: Windows 10 - Business Edition
Version: 10.0.17134
Application architecture: x64
System architecture: x64
Logical processor count: 8
Processor speed: 4,0 GHz
Built-in memory: 16314,6 MB

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116 replies

Lauca
Participating Frequently
December 17, 2018
Essaye de réinitialiser le fichier des préférences, cela a déjà solutionné ce genre de souci.
December 17, 2018
@11105632_asm
Eh non. Réinstallation, réinitialisation, mise à jour... j'ai tout essayé.
Je crains que le problème vient de Google, finalement.
AndresBLA
Participating Frequently
December 17, 2018
@ Philippe Duval,
Toujours pas réglé pour toi après un nouveau lancement de LR et/ou une déconnexion/reconnexion?
Inspiring
December 13, 2018
I updated too. On first try it still didn't work. After restart it's working now.
December 12, 2018
Updated too.

No changes. Map is still unavailable... 😞
Maybe the issue is Google's.
Participating Frequently
December 12, 2018
I have updated to 8.1 version yesterday
This morning I have made a some testing and It seems to be working again.
Inspiring
December 12, 2018
I have the same problem. I can't add data. I can move marker for single pictures on the map but the data doesn't change. I can't even move groups of pictures n the map.

Lightroom Classic-Version: 8.0 [ 1193777 ]
Lizenz: Creative Cloud
Spracheinstellung: de
Betriebssystem: Windows 10 - Business Edition
Version: 10.0.17134
Anwendungsarchitektur: x64
Systemarchitektur: x64
Anzahl logischer Prozessoren: 8
Prozessorgeschwindigkeit: 4,2 GHz
Integrierter Speicher: 32701,2 MB
Inspiring
December 7, 2018


i can't add GPS data to photo
I tried dragging the photo, CTRL+click, nothing worked
enclosed system details:
Lightroom Classic version: 8.0 [ 1193777 ]

License: Creative Cloud

Language setting: en

Operating system: Windows 10 - Home Premium Edition

Version: 10.0.17134

Application architecture: x64

System architecture: x64

Logical processor count: 8

Processor speed: 2.5 GHz

Built-in memory: 16243.7 MB

Real memory available to Lightroom: 16243.7 MB

Real memory used by Lightroom: 5111.8 MB (31.4%)

Virtual memory used by Lightroom: 6258.1 MB

GDI objects count: 800

USER objects count: 2007

Process handles count: 3179

Memory cache size: 1031.9MB

Internal Camera Raw revision: 61

Maximum thread count used by Camera Raw: 5

Camera Raw SIMD optimization: SSE2,AVX,AVX2

Camera Raw virtual memory: 546MB / 8121MB (6%)

Camera Raw real memory: 546MB / 16243MB (3%)

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:

DirectX: Intel(R) HD Graphics 530 (23.20.16.4973)





Application folder: C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Lightroom Classic CC

Library Path: D:\Pictures\Lightroom\Lightroom Catalog.lrcat

Settings Folder: C:\Users\sshmu\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Lightroom



Installed Plugins:

1) AdobeStock

2) Canon Tether Plugin

3) Facebook

4) Flickr

5) jf Picasa Face Import

6) Nikon Tether Plugin



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Direct2DPresent: true

GPUDeviceEnabled: false

OGLEnabled: false
AndresBLA
Participating Frequently
December 7, 2018
Hello, 
Only for info.
I have no geotagging problems with LR Classic Version 8.0 on Win 10 but I am always on version 10.0.17134 (= 1803). 
It should be seen if other users of the latest version of Windows also have this problem.
Sorry, but my English is clearly insufficient to develop more help.
Inspiring
December 7, 2018
Unbelievable! I just upgraded from LR 6.14 to LR Classic CC for the very reason that the map stopped working in 6.14 (Google changed the map API and Adobe no longer supports 6.14). I was tempted to use Geosetter for mapping but convinced myself to bite the bullet and make the jump to CC because the process works well and is much more streamlined.

But now I'm stuck with a broken implementation of the map just as others in this thread. And this is version 8.0.  This bug has been known since 7.5!

Why should I be surprised. Adobe's focus is on the newer Lightroom CC. Even though Classic CC is somewhat new, its days are numbered. I'm going to give this a few more days to see if I can figure this out, but might just cancel CC since I'm still withing the 14 day cancellation period.

My system info:
Lightroom Classic version: 8.0 [ 1193777 ]
License: Creative Cloud
Language setting: en
Operating system: Windows 10 - Home Premium Edition
Version: 10.0.17763
Application architecture: x64
System architecture: x64
Logical processor count: 8
Processor speed: 2.4 GHz
Built-in memory: 16303.0 MB