Lightroom Classic

I had an OS crash and all my apps had to be reinstalled.  Now when trying to import photos I am not getting the option to import to a collection like I used to.  It’s a different screen layout.  See screenshot.  Anyone know what happened to that option?  It used to show up on the righmost panel of the screen, with an option to create a new collection if needed.  Thanks.   

I have just bought Lightroom Classic, and when I try to open a raw file in it, there is a modal dialog telling me that Lightroom will automatically sync my files with the cloud. The only option it gives me, is “ok” … but the thing is that I only want my images to be on my computer hard disk and no where else!I HATE having all your cloud solutions shoveled down my throat. I didn’t ask for a TB in your cloud, and I dont intent to use it at all, but I was never given the opportunity to say no thank you!Now I am not sure if I can use your product at all, without having you guys uploading my entire foto collection to your cloud? What the feck happened to good old concent here? Why isn’t this an opt-in possibility, or at least give us a chance to opt it out, for crying out loud? 😠

LightRoom Classic 15.2 build: 202602111402-ec4112e8Only this release has a fast memory leak in the graphics card memory (Nvidia GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GB).  It  uses up almost all the memory just exporting 8 files to Tif to be edited in PTGUI Pro that also uses graphics memory and crashes repeatedly until exiting LRC, and that fixes the problem.However it is not efficient to have to close LR every time I export files to either Photoshop or PTgui Pro.Lightroom Classic 15.2build: 202602111402-ec4112e8MS Win 11 Prov: 10.0.26200 Build 26200x-64 based PCASUS motherboard Proart z790-creator wifi96GB memoryGraphics: Nvidia GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GBC: drive has 495 GB free.Lightroom database and photo collection on 2 other drives has always run smoothly.Kind regards from Hans

I noticed some of one of my lightroom folders had only 20 photos when the number is showing 400. So I verified that they are all in the folder on drive. So I tried to re-import but it shows all greyed out and I cannot select them. In fact it says the photos have already been imported. They are not corrupted or missing as there is no error icon on them. But yet, they are not showing in library view. I saw advice to find old catalog but I am am not sure how and which one even to try with. Either way, I have bunch of edits and do not want to lose all those edits. How can I remedy this? My LR version is 15.1.1 

Somehow, unknown to be how, I ended in Proof Mode. I cannot exit from it. The top level menu shows Perceptual/Relative mode of Proof Copy. I just want to exit it. How do I do that?

My cat walked on my keyboard and now every time I edit a photo I'm asked if I want to save it as a proof. How do I get out of this mode? Thanks!

On Lightroom Classic 15.2.1 Mac OS 26.3.1, I’m experiencing problems with exporting my photos. I’m running a Mac Studio M4 2025 with 64BG RAM.With the latest version of Classic, I am sometimes able to export photos as usual, whether using the “Export...” dialog box or using a preset. However, mostly, the feature slows down so much that it is barely usable.If I select a preset, the exported image takes something like 30 seconds to appear on the HD. If I try using “Export...”, the Export dialog box takes about 30 seconds to open and then takes another 30 seconds for the exported file to appear on the HD.I have tried this on old and new photos and DNG and JPG photos taken with different cameras - the same problem happens - sometimes it works, and but mostly export occurs very slowly.I’ve never experienced such issues before. It appears to only have appeared with the latest update (15.2.1).Thanks

When you change the year in Metadata > Edit Capture Time to before 2001, the milliseconds goes negative and one is added to whatever value you enter for seconds.  This is likely related to the Cocoa timestamp epoch of 1/1/2001.  If instead you change the year to 2018, the milliseconds gets decremented by one (also incorrect). To reproduce on LR 15.2 / Mac OS 26.2: 1. Open the attached tiny catalog. 2. Select the photo and do Metadata > Edit Capture Time. 3. Click in the year and type 2019 (quickly, to avoid another Edit Capture Time bug).  Observe that the milliseconds field stays at 22 (correct). 4. Click cancel, do Edit Capture Time, click in the year, and type 2018. Observe that the milliseconds field gets changed to 21 (incorrect) 5. Click cancel, do Edit Capture Time, click in the year, and type 2001. Observe that the milliseconds field gets changed to 21 (incorrect). 6. Click cancel, do Edit Capture Time, click in the year, and type 2000. Observe that the milliseconds field

System: Windows 11 (25H2). Lightroom shows all pictures but doesn’t open them. Importing new images is totally impossible.

When viewing a film strip which is filtered to only show flagged image if I click on the flag to "unpick" the selected image and then click on the next image that image is also unpicked. It's a little complicated to explain but the attached video shows it happening and it's very easy to duplicate using these steps:Set the pick flag on multiple imagesGo to Develop Filter only so only images with the flag are displayedSelect an imageClick the flag on the thumbnail to remove it from the filtered listQuickly click on another thumbnailA second image will be removed (UNDO will return it)It seems like the time it takes for the preview for the next image that's automatically displayed when the last image is filtered out is the window for when a click on a thumbnail means the 2nd image will also lose it's flag.I believe it's a bug, it's been happening for quite a few versions now but I've posted in discussion as per the preferred method of reporting. It's become more apparent and annoying in 14

I am scanning a significantly large number of 35mm slides. The slides are stored in boxes and individual slide clips. To identify the location of the original slide, I am entering the box number, clip # and slide # of each slide in the source field (IPTC Status section). Example: Box 4 Clip#32 Slide 20. I would like to be able to search for slides by the source field. The metadata filters do not include a search for source. Can I add this field to the metadata filters? I can enter the information in the Label field which is a filter in the metadata search,  however it adds a white label icon to the photo which can easily be unchecked and then the search is lost. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thank you,Ruth Goodman 

LR 15.2,  Windows 11 up to date,  Geforce RTX 3060 with latest studio driver, latest Epson driverIt happens many times (not always) when printing on large paper (A2 42x59 cm) at  300 or 360 dpi that LR crashes during printing, just before sending data to the printer. The GPU was set to inactive in the preferences (see screen shot)attached zip file containing 2 screen shots and the error dump produced by LRThis error is really annoying, please helpThanks

J’ai posé une question il y a plusieurs semaines sur le thème [Lightroom Classic Discussions] Re: problèmes récurrents de synchronisation impossible à diagnostiquer. Je n’arrive pas à la retrouver dans la nouvelle communauté, et les liens contenus dans les notifications ne débouchent sur rien. Je veux reprendre la discussion et qu’on trouve enfin une réponse à mon problème !une personne Anshul_Saini m’avait demandé de lui envoyer par message privé un gros fichier de diagnostic. Il m’en a fait un accusé de réception, depuis plus rien. comment retrouver les messages enoyés et reçus ?Comment peut-on avancer ? je suis las de la complexité du fonctionnement de ce forum.

Since updating to LrCC 15 yesterday (Windows 11), I find my workflow much slower. Both the library and develop modules are slower, photos taking a long time (a couple of seconds) to paste settings in the develop module (despite LRCC receiving the input to paste immediately, the effects take a few seconds to apply to the image - this is true across both my Phase One tiff/raw files and my Fujifilm X series raw files).   Anybody else experiencing some slowdowns (as usual with a new LRCC release, unfortunately). 

Hi everyone, I'm currently trying to migrate my entire Lightroom CC library (about 41,440 images) into a new, empty Lightroom Classic catalog. However, the sync in Lightroom Classic is extremely slow: after more than 20 hours, only about 3,200 images have been downloaded. For comparison:On the same system, I also ran the Lightroom Downloader app, which downloads all images in about 20 hours total – many times faster. The app maintains a stable download rate of 30–100 Mbit/s, with peaks up to 200 Mbit/s. But when I pause the Downloader and activate the LrC sync instead, the download rate drops to below 1 Mbit/s, with only occasional peaks and very long idle times. Sync activity in LrC barely progresses, and it seems to load only 1–2 images at a time, with frequent stalling. Both apps are:Running on the same systemUsing the same networkTalking to the same Adobe serversSo I can safely rule out any system or network bottlenecks. I've already tried:Resetting th

I have an image scanned from a print on bond paper. The image has horizontal lines across it from top to bottom. Is there a way to remove this pattern of lines without going through each one individually?

I see my biggest space suck of almost 500GB are these LR_Master Catalog-v3-……. Previews.lrdataCan I safely get rid of the older ones, say 2024 and older?   

XMP. *   Vejo a prévia dos resultados das pré-definições, mas não é possível aplicar nenhuma. Aparece mensagem na tela "os modelos de mascaramento estão sendo baixados. Progresso: 0%". E não sai disso. Alguém me ajuda?

Cross post from https://www.lightroomqueen.com/community/threads/metadata-question.54501/This thread evolved from a user who noticed that their LrC images posted to their Zenfolio pages no longer included the Exposure or Lens EXIF data when you click the “i” button on his ZF website.  There was some discussion about his workflow (converting to TIFF, passing it through Photo shop) but it turned out to be a change made at Zenfolio which has rubbed a lot of folks the wrong way.   See the above thread for further information and a workaround using Jfriedl’s ZF Publish Service plug in or his Metadata Wrangler Plug in. If you are a Zenfolio user who is angry that ZF deliberatly started stripping EXPOSURE, FOCAL LENGTH and LENS SPEED from uploaded images please voice your complaint to Zenfolio. To do so you can use the "Contact Us" button on your Zenfolio dashboard/control web site panel or send an email to: Zenfolio Support <support@zenfolio.com>   I complained to Zenfolio and here is

Windows 11 RTX 4070 12GB Driver Studio 595.79 (latest, dated 10 March) LrC 15.2 Full acceleration now disabled (was ok before driver update)    Follows system infoLightroom Classic version: 15.2 [ 202602111402-ec4112e8 ]License: Creative CloudLanguage setting: enOperating system: Windows 11 - Business EditionVersion: 11.0.26200Application architecture: x64System architecture: x64Logical processor count: 24Processor speed: 2,1GHzSqLite Version: 3.36.0Adobe GSDK Version: 1.4.0.171CPU Utilisation: 0,0%Power Source: Plugged InBuilt-in memory: 65349,3 MBDedicated GPU memory used by Lightroom: 275,8MB / 12010,0MB (2%)Real memory available to Lightroom: 65349,3 MBReal memory used by Lightroom: 2295,7 MB (3,5%)Virtual memory used by Lightroom: 2993,9 MBGDI objects count: 953USER objects count: 3203Process handles count: 2824Memory cache size: 2238,8MBInternal Camera Raw version: 18.2 [ 2482 ]Maximum thread count used by Camera Raw: 5Camera Raw SIMD optimization: SSE2,AVX,AVX2Camera Raw virtual

I am using LrC 15.2 and I will use the Web module to make some photo gallery pages.  I would prefer gallery templates that are friendly for phones, tablets, and computers.  For phones and tablets being able to swipe to go to the next or previous photo is convenient.  Are there any templates that can do that?  I already tried the Grid Gallery and Track Gallery and they require touching tiny arrow icons to navigate on a phone.