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Participant
March 20, 2017
In Development

P: No warning before exporting files from smart previews

  • March 20, 2017
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Please add a warning dialog, if one tries to export from smart preview files.
I learnt the hard way, that Lightroom exports files no matter what. Unnoticed I had lost my server connection, when I exported some files. The resulting files were a lot smaller than my usual photos and it seemed to me as if I had made some wrong settings. I spent literally the entire night looking for solutions online, until it dawned to me the next morning, that the culprit was the missing server connection. So please, please, please add a warning dialog to the export functions, once one tries to export from smart preview files.

4 replies

Rikk Flohr_Photography
Community Manager
May 14, 2019
A fix went in for this in 8.3. Download the update and see if it is better for you. 

Rikk Flohr: Adobe Photography Org
Inspiring
February 9, 2019
This bug just cost me hours of work. Lightroom exporting from a low-rez Smart Preview when the original file was unavailable. Didn't realize until I went to print. No warning. Furious.

"Dumb" previews if you ask me. I just disabled the feature, but this really needs to be fixed.
Participant
May 24, 2018
Functionality request: If exporting a Smart Preview image without the source raw file available, and the user has selected a pixel dimension larger than 2560 (or the inherent Smart Preview Size) in the Export dialog, then a warning should be triggered to alert the user that Smart Previews are being used and that pixel dimensions will be limited to 2560px.
Participating Frequently
March 20, 2017
Unbelievable it is not there yet. Every basic photo print service will warn you if you risk getting low quality output.