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sirhawkeye
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February 12, 2025
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P: Add icon to indicate Lightroom Classic is running in the background

  • February 12, 2025
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This is more a feature request than a bug... I noticed that with large catalogs atl east on slower machines, sometimes LrC runs in the background as it's finishing writing to the database and then unloads, but I've seen times where it may take a few minutes to comoplete and then c lose fully (even though the UI closes when the user closes the app, it may still run in the background, and this is not obvious).

 

Maybe Adobe should add an icon in the System Tray to alert users that it's still writing data to the database and it's still open in the background, so they don't restart or shut down their computer until LrC has fully closed.  It's not a huge deal but if someone were to shutdown or restart, it's possible that the changes that LRC may be writing will be incomplete and this could lead to corruption.   I've also noticed a few instances where it's unloaded from the background but does not remove it's temporary database files (although Adobe does have a workaround for this).  But it would be nice to just let the user know that LrC is still working in the background as the only way to find this out on a Windows system is to check the Task manager.