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June 29, 2020

P: Image does not return from Photoshop to my Lightroom Desktop Catalog

  • June 29, 2020
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So I've successfully done all the updates mentioned, and attempted my first run with this process. It did NOT work.

36,191 images in my LR at the point of 'Edit in Photoshop' - PS launches, image appears, I make adjustements, duplicate a layer or two, close the file (and obviously agree to save the changes), image closes, and when I go back to LR (and wait a few mins to be sure), nothing has updated with the modified image. 

 

I still have 36,191 images in my library.

 

So, these updates have not made any difference to me. 

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Participant
June 13, 2022

@Badly Drawn Boy  My Intel Mac works fine but my M1 is having the issues since the latest updates to PS & LR. How do you run the programs in Rosetta mode? I am not finding anything in the forums to explain this.

 

Also, I should note that I am also receiving this error message in LR on my 1Mac M1 after I select "edit in photoshop" from LR and then close PS after saving my edits (which are not imported back into LR), when I try to close LR I get an error message that there is an active edit in photoshop:

Participant
June 13, 2022

Hello, I am having similar issues. I have always run Lightroom and Photoshop off my 2017 MacBook Pro (2.8 GHz Quad-Core Intel Core i7) without issues of syncing between apps. It still currently works fine for me on this laptop. I recently upgraded to a 2021 iMac (Apple M1 chip) and am not able to get my PS edits to show up in LR but if I do it from my laptop it will sync on both computers. They were working fine before the latest PS & LR updates and now they no longer sync on the iMac.

 

I am running the latest updates to both PS & LR and macOS Monterey v12.4 on both computers. I have checked all settings to update them to be exactly the same because none of my settings from my laptop synced to my iMac. I cannot figure out how to fix this and see that many others are having this issue still too. 

 

I really need to get this working on my iMac to resume my work, my laptop does not have enough disk space consistently to continue running my PS files. Are there any updates on fixing this bug?

Inspiring
May 17, 2022

@Rikk Flohr: Photography On Feb 9 of this year, you acknowledged this issue (images opened and edited in Photoshop from Lightroom not saving back to Lightroom) as a bug. It is now May 17. The problem still exists, at least for me and many other users. Has Adobe made any progress here? 

Inspiring
April 18, 2022

Oops, I assumed this thread (and bug) were specific to M1 (Apple Silicon) Macs. I didn't realize it also affects PCs. 

Participant
April 18, 2022
I've not heard of Rosetta? Is that an apple thing? I'm using Windows.
Inspiring
April 18, 2022

Adobe has acknowledged this as a bug. For some (but not all) of us, running *both* Lightroom and Photoshop in Rosetta mode solves the problem. There is a slight performance hit, but for me, this is preferable to having to save images from Photoshop to a folder and then import them into Lightroom. 

 

I'd be curious to know if enabling Rosetta for PS/LR works for you?

Participant
April 15, 2022

Hi, Im new to using Adobe software on Mac OS. I've been using it perfectly fine on Windows and iPad OS for the last couple of years. Since i've bought my new MacBook Pro 14" with M1 Pro running the latest version of Monterey OS i've ran into an issue with my usual workflow. I would usually start off in Lightroom as i find it easier to do quick initial edits and also organise albums easier. Then i select the "Edit In Photoshop" button which opens up fine and i can continue editing. Then usually im used to simply closing the file so it auto saves and it will import straight back into Lightroom and stack with the original file. For some reason though this isnt happening it prompts me to instead save it as a separate file inside Photoshop.

 

I've read through many other forums on this subject and none of the steps have worked.

 

The only fix i have found myself is to open both apps using Rosetta emulation and run the Intel version which does seem to resolve the issue however i assume this comes with performance impacts which i'd rather avoid since i've bought a brand new mac and want the full power.

 

Any ideas on when this will be addressed in an update to work fully on Apple Silicon.

Inspiring
April 12, 2022

New Photoshop update today doesn't look like it addressed this issue. https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/kb/fixed-issues.html

Inspiring
April 11, 2022

I'm wondering if anyone is experiencing this problem on an Intel Mac, or is it limited to Apple Silicon Macs? 

Inspiring
April 9, 2022

Well, turns out enabling Rosetta hasn't fixed it for me, either. It did for a while, but I just had a failed round trip this morning, and then another this afternoon—with Rosetta enabled. I hope Adobe can finally fix this. It has been an issue for a long time.