Lightroom Classic

After using Lightroom classic without significant problems for 15-20 years,today when I started the app, the Folder panel was empty. I am currently on a photography subscription and always keep my apps up to date. Apps are running on Mac mini M4 MacOS 15 Sequoia. LRC version 14.5.1. My pictures and catalog files are stored on an external ssd. All of the files and folders are findable using Mac Finder, and when I am in the Catalog panel, viewing All photographs, I can select any photograph and right-click and choose Show in Finder and there is no problem, the photos are present and in the correct folders and subfolders.However, if I right click on a photo and choose Go to Photo in Library, I get a message "No Photos in selected Folder".I also attempted to import some recent photos from my camera and got an error message:"An Internal error has occured.AgPathUtils.getStandardFilePath: can't create directory at: /Users/kenberean/Pictures. Error message = %@"Clearly, these two problems are

Curious is anyone else is having issue with Lightroom freezing since the last update. It currently happens when I select an image, make a right click and then it freezes. I am not able to change screens or apps. I have to CTRL+ALT+Delete to exit the program. Is there another option besides un-installing at this point? 

Hi all, after returing from a trip, I ran into an issue with the updated AI Denoise. In multiple of my images, the denoise tool will turn a dark area green, even though not green color is present in the raw file. This has not happened previously to me. I'm using Fujifilm GFX 100S II Raws. Has anyone else experienced this? Any workarounds?

Beim Abmelden aus LRC sichere ich für gewöhnlich immer den Katalog. Nach dem neuesten Update auf LRC 14.5.1 erhalten ich nun plötzlich die Meldung, dass der Katalog nicht mehr gesichert werden kann. Folgender zusätzliche Hinweis erscheint "Überprüfe deine Ordnerberechtigungen und stelle sicher, dass du ausreichend Speicherplatz auf Deinem Datensicherungslaufwerk und im Laufwerk des Hauptkataloges hast." Ich habe keine Änderungen vorgenommen, d. h. keine Änderungen von Ordnerberechtigungen. Ich habe mal versucht, den Speicherort für die Sicherung zu ändern und auf eine externe Festplatte zu lagen die noch 3 TB freien Speicher hat. Aber leider, auch das klappt nicht, es kommt der selbe Fehler. Wer kann helfen? Danke!!!

Right-clicking a mask and doing Intersect Mask With causes the three-dot menus and eyeball icons to stop appearing when you hover over any mask or mask component. The bug recipe below faithfully replicates a common way of configuring the LR UI. With this config, it's very easy for the bug to occur, and, while it's a simple bug with a now-known trivial workaround, it is quite annoying (as it apparently was to Conrad).   To reproduce on a virgin LR 14.5.1 / Mac OS 15.6.1 (both freshly installed in a virtual machine):   1. Download and open this small catalog: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/okzrplm6igsst4an71xpm/intersect-bug.2025-09-05.zip?rlkey=xhxs6es9e56wfi83t3ol8qqob&dl=0   2. Click the window's green button to fill the screen with LR.   3. Take one of the photos into Develop and create a mask. If the Masks panel isn't docked in the main Develop column, dock it.   4. Click the three-dot men in the lower right corner of the Masks panel to ensure you h

Recently my LrC was frequently freezing for a few seconds because I haven't updated my previews and scrolling through them was a pain.After recreating standard previews for all my pictures, I realized that I haven't update the people's list for a while. I updated the proposed suggestions but when all proposed faces were confirmed, not all had a preview.So then I tried to "Find Faces Again", folder by folder (each folder contains pictures for 1 year). I worked quite well for all folder with less than 500 pictures. But now after finding faces again in a folder with 1200 pictures, once the fetching is completed, I go into the People's view and not all images show a preview but mostly LrC hangs / freezes and I can't complete the work. I'm running LrC 14.4 with Camera Raw 17.4 on a Windows 11 PC with 32 Gb RAM and an NVidia GeForce GTX 1660 GPU and a RYZEN 7 3800X CPU.  Please help, I'm getting desperate

Hey there, I'm wanting to know what settings people are currently using for 'image resize' when you're exporting for instagram. I'm wanting settings for portrai and landscape, not the square ratio. Many times when I've asked this question, people advise to crop the image. I'm not wanting to crop, I'm wnting to resize, as sometimes when i export and go to post my photos the don't fit, despite me following guidlines I've found online. The particular photo I'm trying to resize at the moment is a portrait shot, and each time I export playign with different settings i have the same issue- the image length is slightly too high and part of the image is cropped out. There must be something I'm doing wrong! Advice would be much appreciated. Thanks

So I shot my project in 16:9 as a guide, but I want the full frame in lightroom to work with.  Whenever i scrub through my shots, it automatically crops the image one by one to "as shot" - do I really need to INDIVIDUALLY reset this for EACH shot? Like holy moly, what an awful feature to begin with. Why wouldn't it do it as a batch when imported? Secondly how do i turn this off. This sort of thing is exactly why a 10 year old version of lightroom is better than the current days. 

I would like the ability to input a color temperature instead of depending on a slider that lets me go from -100 to +100. But under custom WB the only option is the sliders? Why it would be valuable is that all my meters give me data with a color temp number, not a slider value. 

Seit einigen Wochen kann ich keine Backups vom Lightroomkatalog machen.Hier der Ablauf:Dann wird dieser Ordner mit den Dateien angeleget:Dann wird die Katalogsicherung komprimiert und es erscheinen diese Dateien.Dann bricht die Komprimierung an dieser Stelle ab...und es erscheint folgende Fehlermeldung: Lightroom hat alle Berechtigungen, die für mich erreichbar sind.Ich habe verschiedene angeschlossene Datenträger probiert, die alle mehr als 1 TB Platz haben.An der Lightroomkonfiguration habe ich nichts verändert. Es hat immer funktioniert. MacBook Pro M3 mit 48 Gb RAM und mehreren SSD un HD.Ich arbeite seit vielen Jahren mit Adobe Produkten und kanne mich gut aus.Alle meine Programme von Adobe sind aktuell, haben alle Updates.Mein Katalog umfasst mehr als 100.000 Bilder. Es wäre eine Katastrophe, wenn der verloren ginge.Hat bitte jemand eine Idee? 

Since updating to Lightroom 14.5 and 14.5.1, Lightroom no longer uses my GPU — neither my dedicated Nvidia GTX 1660 Ti nor my integrated GPU. The GPU selection options are completely grayed out, with no way to change or enable them. Because of this, Lightroom is now entirely relying on my CPU, which makes it extremely slow, especially when processing a large batch of photos or applying Denoise AI. I had no choice but to roll back to version 14.4, where everything works perfectly and both GPUs are properly recognized and utilized. Here are a few details about my setup:Dedicated GPU: Nvidia GTX 1660 Ti (latest driver)CPU and integrated GPU: Intel Core i7-9750H, Intel UHD Graphics 630OS: Windows 11My system fully supports DirectX 12 I have tried:Reinstalling the latest Nvidia driversRolling back to previous GPU driversRestarting Lightroom and my systemSwitching between Studio and Game Ready drivers Unfortunately, nothing has worked so far.Has anyone

I switched from MAC to a windows PC a fw days ago. I copied over the Lightroom classic catalog and its associated files. After sorting out differences in drive names all was working well untill today. LRC now gets in a loop on startup if I click Restart now. I do sync to Lightroom but not sure if this is the 'sync' its talking about. I have tried :-reinstalling Lightroom ClassicRunning the catalog from two days ago on an external drive.Seleting the X icon top right, quit and restartRestart reopens LRC as I expected but with the same errorQuit, Quits 🙂 but when you restart it still 'loops' to this message. All software uptodate as its been installed two days ago. Background info :-PC is runnning Windows 11;  i9 processor; 64gb ram; various plugins - NIK; DXORaw4; Topaz Photo Ai; qimage Any Help Appreciated.Barry

I have somehow ended up with 14 catalogs in my Lightroom folder on my computer along with the related lrcat and helper.Lrdata folders (Total of 50 folders). I didn't make these extra catalogs intentionally, but I see they are named like Catalog 2-v10 and catalog v12-2 as examples, so I'm thinking they might be resulting from various version updates?Anyway, I would like to combine them into one catalog, so I don't have my files scattered across multiple catalogs. Is there a command or a process that Lightroom can run to move all the photos to one catalog and eliminate duplicates at the same time? Will it be able to differentiate between a picture that is unedited in one catalog but edited in another and save only the edited one? Each catalog is between 8000 and 15000 images so I would prefer not to have to sort them manually.This is in preparation to get a new computer eventually as I'm currently running Windows 10 on an older HP Spectre. Running Lightroom classic 13.0.1 

Once a keyword has been converted to a person keyword is there a way to change it back to a regular keyword? I have a couple of keywords that I mistakenly clicked as a name in the people view making them person keywords and I'd like to change them back.

I am running LR Classic 14.5.1 on my 2024 iMac OS-X 15.6 and yesterday uploaded 3000 shots from a baseball championship tournament. I was culling oof shots, adjusting straightness, cropping to print etc and then LR statred locking up as in the spinning wheel of death. Now, In Library I can see the photos but if I go to Develop the photo is blank. If I go from Library to Print, the photo is missing. Back to Library, see the photos, press to go to Develop and it works until I select crop, etc. Photo disappears and I have to reboot my computer. I have 24gb RAM and 149GB of 500GB free space on the internal SSD. What should I be trying to get this resolved? Unistall LR Classic and reinstall? Use the percussion test?PS LR updates were done earlier today.

Suddenly when I import photos from my Canon G7 where I have two format in my camera; jpg and raw nowadays LR classic suddenly has started to make both jpg and raw-files to Dng-files when importing photos. I dont like that and I dont want that! I want my jpgs to stay jpg and my raw files to be dng. As it was earlier. Anyone knows why this is like this?  How to fix it. I have done nothing but maybe some bug or something?I have Macbook pro and latest version of LR classic.kind regards Jenny

Can anyone provide an insight why my Lightroom Classic lrcat-data folder has doubled in size following the updating of Lightroom Classic to v14.5.1.  I became aware of this when I realised it was taking longer to copy the Lightroom backup zip file created when closing Lightroom to an external USB drive.Using the contents of the zip files then:26th August 2025, immediately before the update, the lract-data folder in the backup contains 8 blob files, total size 622MB29th August 2025, after the update, the lract-data folder in the backup contains 10 blob files, total size 1.22 GBDuring this time no new photo's were added to the catalogue and no significant editing was done.The most recent backup taken today, 5th September 2025 contains 10 Blob files, total size 1.21GB

Okay so I know this is a total newby move so please be kind.  whenever I would upload files to lightroom they were being saved to my computer.  After a photo session I went to upload 800 photos.  Halfway through import my lightroom would no longer upload because it was full.  I realized I needed to store all the old photos from my lightroom and put them on my external hard drive.  I wasn't sure how to do this properly at the time so I just deleted all the photos from that current session out of lightroom so I could reupload them all together once I cleared some space.  I even deleted them out of the Lightroom folder on my finder. (They are now all in that same folder again in finder because deleting them did nothing)When I went to reupload them once other lightroom files files were stored the correct way on my external hard drive it would not let me hit the check box to upload them (As if they were already in lightroom. attaching a photo of what I mean) Th

No idea if this post should go to discussion, or bugs - for me it's a bug and a serious one.Any advice is appriciated - as I'm loosing faith in LRC 😞First the tech specs of my hardware: Windows 11Ryzen 9 7950xRadeon RX 7900xt32GB RAM DDR5System drive NvME 256GB Kingston - where LRC and PS are installed. about 70GB free disk space (new firmware installed)Drive for RAW files, cache (20GB), and catalogue SSD 2TB.All options of performance tab using GPU checked for full support.LRC always at latest version - but the issue persists for several months already - so version doesn't change anything. Now the issue. It happens while editing in develop tab - usually when mooving sliders, or switching to next / previous photo. While doing any of theese actions, system drive gets 100% usage for about 1-2s and LRC freezes for that second or 2. Then LRC performs action (ex. changes the photo), and unfreezes. But when I change photo again, or move ex. exp slider / highlight or any oth

I have a rare issue which I cannot figure out.My company does real estate photography and we layer two images in photoshop - run an action and reimport back into lightroom. We select two images in Lightroom, then "Open as Layers in Photoshop".  Lightroom then automatically switches us over to Photoshop.  However one of our macbooks does NOT switch over to photoshop automatically which is extremely helpful because we can open multiple files and then switch over to photoshop once we have opened all the files we want to work with.  We want to figure out how to set our other macbooks to not autoswitch to photoshop.  Any ideas?  Thanks in advance.   

There has been many posts concerning Lr performance issues. But I think there is a performance crisis.What I'm experiencing:Lightroom Classic is generally laggy, and almost unable to import, export or do other basic operations. The Map Module is especially unresponsive, i.e. very slow to load marks, to switch between photos, etc.Lightroom Desktop is a little better, but import/export is often unresponsive. Concerning Lr Desktop export, I found, when I set the cache size from 50GB to Maximum, the export becomes normal, but after changing this setting for a while (weeks), it doesn't work. This may be a clue to the problem. My environment:M1 Macbook Air 16+512, OS always updated, 50GB free disk space.Lr Classic catalog: over 226000 photos, many collections and smart collections.Catalog file and all previews on an external ssd with more than 100GB free space. I contacted an 'agent' from Adobe and in the remote control session he looked around and he first talkd about RAM the

When I try to import from an external drive, some folders do not show up, even though they show up in Windows Explorer. I'm using LR Classic, ver. 14.1 under Windows 11. How can I import from files in  folders that do exist (showing up in Explorer) but do not appear in the folder list under LR Import?