P: Ability to lock photos to prevent further editing

I would like to be able to lock files to prevent any changes, including changes to metadata and develop settings. I sometimes accidentally press a key that makes a change to a file (such as changing the rating) and don't realize until later when it's too late to undo the change/ I also find that Lightroom is sometimes slow to respond to a keyboard shortcut, and I start typing thinking I'm in a text box, and I'm not, and all sorts of damage is being done. Being able to lock files would avoid these unintended changes. An easy-to-use lock/unlock icon and/or command would be great!

+1 for locking images from sync in develop module!!

+1 for locking. Adding a filter for locked/unlocked photos would help me to quickly find "finished" against "work in progress" photos.

A lock feature would be nice. Just spent hours restoring my edits since i happened to sync a preset to a almost finished edited full day wedding job without noticing until I had restarted Lightroom. Which means I was not able to use ctrl+z.

If I had protected the finished images this would never had happened.

You're welcome - but it was just a re-iteration of the first response in this thread.

Thanks, I just downloaded it and am installing it now. I appreciate the pointer.

This plugin may help you work around:

http://regex.info/blog/lightroom-good...

+1 for locking an image to prevent accidental deletion. This thread is pretty old, has Adobe had a response to it?

Locking from further edits & preventing accidental edits without "unlocking" MAKES GOOD SENSE. It's a good idea!

This idea goes hand in hand with this topic: http://feedback.photoshop.com/photosh...

please give us a feature to protect images from accidently changing them.

something like a lock button that protects images from changes made in LR.

it has happend a few times that i accidently selected an RAW image and synchronized it in LR, only to notice later in PS (and after some time spend on editing) that i have exported a version with the wrong develop settings.

once i think a RAW image is FINAL (in LR) i would like to lock/protect it (at least from changes in the LR develop module).

if i then try to edit/synchronize it, a warning message should come up.