P: Desktop: paste settings on multiple photos freezes before completing

Same problem here. I recently decided to pay for LR, it's been two months and seeing such ridiculous bugs being unfixed for months is unacceptable for the price charged MONTHLY.

I am going back to my old ways, if you know what I mean.

I've recently started using Lightroom instead of Lightroom Classic... and it seems that almost all batch operations I do (either (a) PASTE edit settings OR (b) apply an edit preset on import)  do not work for the entire set of photos.   

In case (b) ... I've done 4 different imports of ~300-400 raw images (Canon EOSR) and LR has *never* applied my import preset successfully to the photos.

In case (a) ... after the images were imported and the preset wasn't applied ... I went to one image, applied the preset, did Ctrl-C to copy edit settings .. then select all .. and paste (onto ~300-400 images).   In every case, the progress bar gets maybe 20% of the way .. then it hangs and never completes.

It is taking me 4-5 attempts-- with an app restart in between-- to get my batch edit changes applied to 400 images.   Very annoying.

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Update:  this continues to repro 100% of the time ... I should have mentioned, this is Windows LR Desktop, running on a Surface Studio.   

Build # is 20201120-1311-17d302b Build

I checked for updates and don't see any.    I grabbed a system info file but don't see a way to attach it to this post?  

yeah, I have a 24 core threadripper, 1070ti, and 64 gigs of ram, and I cant run anything else if I have lightroom open, often times for seemingly no reason it eats up 100% of my ram, it's the most inefficient "professional grade" program I have ever used. I cant believe its not considered a beta version.

It's a joke isn't it? I've just had to move fully to CaptureOne as I can't be dealing with Adobe anymore.

I've got an M1 MacBook too and the Adobe stuff runs like crap on them, if it runs at all. And that's with the M1 Optimised version of Lightroom... yet I load up CaptureOne which is being translated to work on M1 and it works like a dream

@Rikk 

Still experiencing the problem today using v4.1 bld 20201120-1311-17d302b.  Was bulk editing 1953 photos and had to copy edits in small batches of less than 400 to finally get through it.  Any updates on when this might get a fix?

Lightroom Classic latest version and also 10.1. 

Crashes approx every 3-4 times that I use the transform tools - specifically the Guided transform tool.

I get the coloured wheel which spins for approx 3-4 mins every time. 

Very unhelpful and very frustrating in the interest of achieving my workload. 

Can't believe this is still as issue. We flagged this with multiple tickets back in October, 2020 and Customer Service was unable to provide any help or an ETA on a fix.
We had to reinstall 4.0 on all the computers to get through our workload, and now even old versions of Lightroom are freezing up. Can't even copy to five images at a time. Takes hours to process a single job.

Ridiculous. Our productivity is kaput on a national level all because of this one bug. Someone please fix it!

@Rikk

NO it's not solved at all!

When the issue first appeared on 4.0 I went back to 3.4 and had no problems until all my images would show up BLACK. Then I found out there was 4.1 version and thought: "Finally they must have fixed it" 
And what do you think? THEY DID NOT

So there are three available versions of Lightroom now:

3.4 - all images black no matter the settings

4.0 - freezing when pasting settings

4.1 - freezing when pasting settings too

None is usable 

Amazing, but how are we supposed to work? Is anyone working on it even? Issue stands from October still! Super frustrating and takes a lot of my time.

Well that's all fine, but there appears to be no response on how to fix and/or a timeline for fixing??  Can you please advise?

This post is being merged into an existing thread for better tracking and response.