Lightroom Classic

in Dev and Library mode: metadata is not showing up (spinning wheel constantly), keywords constantly say ‘working’ (grayed out), ratings not showing, nor stacking groups, or even the stack icon on top left. when helper file gets deleted, issue is resolved initially, and then breaks again. When rating images, if any rating shows, it does not get updated. LR 15.1.1  OS Version Number: 15.7.3

So, not a question as such, but after months of slow switching between photos on my top-of-the-line Macbook M5 w 32GB RAM & 2TB SSD HDD (it could take 20 seconds waiting for the next photo to show, using keyboard arrows), I have finally solved this extremely annoying issue.I have all files stored locally on my HDD, backing up to Dropbox.I pause Dropbox sync before opening LR.Lightning fast switching in Dev mode :-)I assume it’s the same for OneDrive; pause sync while working. Resume sync after finished your work in LR.Happy days

 In Lightroom version 15.1.1, when I try to select photos in the Library window, the program freezes, forcing me to force a task, as I can't close it otherwise. This only happens with version 15.1.1; it doesn't happen with other versions.

[Adobe doesn't accept bug reports of LR 14 on Mac OS 26, so I'm posting this here to inform other plugin developers and users and perhaps Adobe developers, if they're interested.] Plugins sometimes crash LR 14.5.1 with Mac OS 26.0 on Apple Silicon Macs when they try to run a child program using LrTasks.execute(), with the error in the crash log, "crashed on child side of fork pre-exec".  If this bug continues with LR 15 (officially supported on Mac OS 26), it could have a serious impact on many plugins. A similar bug occurred a year ago starting with LR 13.5, on just Intel Macs, and wasn't fixed until 14.5. Adobe's fix was suboptimal, serializing all invocations of LrTasks.execute(), creating a real performance hit for plugins that invoked multiple instances of programs in parallel (e.g. Exiftool). A better fix would have been to serialize the lower-level invocations of the operating system's fork/exec system calls, which would still allow multiple instances of LrTa

When I want to skip through hundreds or thousands of photos in Lightroom Classic (Version 15.0.1) in the film strip I mostly get this very annoying problem: after holding the arrow key to the right or left for a few seconds it doesn't stop anymore to speed through the images though I'm no more holding the arrow key. Sometimes it's going on for "just" a couple of hundred further photos and sometimes even through thousands of photos until the very last photo in the strip. I can't even stop it.This first started three months ago when I updated on a new MacBook. On my old Macbook this never happened in years. Does someone got an Idea to fix this bug?

Dear community, Today as often clickedon the LR shortcut towork on my photo but instead of launching normaly, I had the "Adobe Phtoshop Lightroom 6 Sign In " pop up. Than it directly goes to the Phtoshop Lightroom 6 Trial window. I click on License this software, put my Serial Number (bought in 2017) click on "Next" but instead of going to the next step, it reload the "Adobe Phtoshop Lightroom 6 Sign In " pop up. Did not try to uninstall the software as I am not sure it will help and not sure I won t loose my catalog. Any clue, on what happened? Thanks, Chris   {Moved from Lightroom Cloud to Lightroom Classic Forum by Moderator}

This thread is for all posts concerning Lightroom 6.x, whose last update, 6.14, was released in December 2017.Status of software versionThis includes questions regarding:   Downloading Installing Activation Updating General Operation   Any new threads created regarding these topics will be collected and merged into this thread.  

Mac - Lightroom Classic - All Current----------------------Collection SetFolder 1 holds 100 photos.  Sort:  Custom Order Create Folder 2.  Drag-drop 100 photos from Folder 1.  Order changes Delete Folder 2 Create Folder 3.  Change Sort to Custom Order Drag 100 photos from Folder 1 into Folder 3.  Order changes Set Folder 1 as Target Folder.  Repeat steps.  Order changesHow can I move 100 photos in a custom order to another folder without the order changing?Thanks.

For example, if I have 40 photos on my SD card but only want to import 10, which setting in the Lightroom Import window allows me to filter the view so that only the selected photos are shown, hiding the remaining 30?

The update to the Generative Remove AI model in Lightroom Classic 14.5 has ruined it, as it now changes elements outside the painted mask, making it more or less unusable in many situations.

I took a photograph of people riding on a bus, from the outside of the bus. As expected, there are window reflections on it. I tried to remove the reflections in LRC but it did not remove any of them. Moving the slider to -100 shows a black image, indicating LRC did not find reflections. I opened the same image in Camera Raw, and there the reflections were mostly removed. Moving the slider to -100 shows what Camera Raw detected as reflections. I don’t understand what is going on. Can you help? I am including relevant screen shots: Original Image, LRC 100 Removal, LRC -100 Removal, CR 100 Removal, CR -100 RemovalOriginal ImageLRC 100 RemovalLRC -100 RemovalCamera Raw 100 RemovalCamera Raw -100 RemovalMy system info:Lightroom Classic version: 15.1 [ 202512101606-1bb801a8 ]License: Creative CloudLanguage setting: en-USOperating system: Mac OS 26Version: 26.2.0 [25C56]Application architecture: arm64Logical processor count: 10Processor speed: NASqLite Version: 3.36.0Adobe GSDK Version: 1.4.

I can still print from Photoshop to the Epson 3880 as usual and from other non-Lightroom programs, but not from Lightroom.. I am running Windows 11 and LIghtroom 15.1., build 202601141538-a543b18a.. When I try to print to the Epson printer from Lightroom, the printing dialog box come up, but there is no spooling and it seems to abort prematurely. I reloaded the 3880 drivers, but no change. Would appreciate your thoughts. Thanks.

This was a thread that Mr Flohr had acknowledge matched an internal bug, but now it’s completely gone. Adobe released a bug fix update this month yet the bug remains. So I don’t know what is going on here but it’s pretty frustrating and insulting.  Even with “Analyze photos of selected source...” disabled in catalog settings, and with the AI-assisted culling panel hidden, the message “Enable AI Analysis in Catalog Settings to use Assisted Culling” appears ON TOP OF THE CURRENT PHOTO while in develop mode. Obviously if you use Lightroom as your primary professional editing software, having a message appear ON TOP OF THE PHOTO which, when dismissed, simply reappears often after only a few seconds, is not ideal. This happens most frequently when command-L is used to enable and disable filtering. I’m on the most-recent version of lightroom and the most-recent update of macos Sequoia. I am not going to waste my time deleting settings, reinstalling, disabling plugins, all of that stuff - I h

I am trying to start Lightroom Classic and I am getting this errorLightroom.exe System error The code execution cannot proceed because mfc140u.dll was not found. Reinstalling the program may fix this problem.I have uninstalled and reinstall and still getting the same error

Yesterday I took my first photos with my Sony Alpha 7 V, and before importing them into Lightroom, the images still looked normal—just as I had seen them in the camera. After the import, I noticed blue clipping. I then opened the image in Sony’s Image Edge software, and the RAW files do not show this clipping there. I’ve attached a screenshot—one from the Sony program and one from Lightroom using the beta profile. Could I have overlooked some setting, or could this actually be caused by the beta profile?On the left side, the image is opened as a RAW file in Image Edge, and on the right side is the latest version of Lightroom using the beta profile. Both images are unedited.Node: These are Not Highlight/Shadow clippings. Its the Harsh Blue thats overlaping and somehow not showing correctly.Node2: The Raw File when looking at it in the Sony A7V is looking fine colourwise! 

I don't know how this works.  I need to talk to someone!!!  This kind of support is awful!!!   Apparently Adobe no longer wants to talk to anyone and doesn't want anyone to report bugs.   I'm running LR Classic version 14.3.1.  I moved some photos from one directory (folder) to another.  That worked.  But now when I try to rate them with stars, for example pressing "3" for 3 stars, it complains that metadata is corrupted with the little exclaimation mark in upper right corner of thumbnail.  It has options to repair (like copy from disk), and none work.  The only work around I found is to remove from LR,  delete the sidecar file, import back into LR, and edit it again in the new directory.    I did not have this bug until I upgraded from a previous version to 14.x couple months ago.  I ran into this bug a in earlier version of 14.x, but couldn't figure out what happened, so upgraded to 14.3.1 and same bug.  I need to

I have made many Blurb books over the past (10?) years or so but recently the quality of the books has become really bad. I’m constantly having to contact their customer service to have books reprinted because of errors (like lines, misaligned color plates, dark images (same file on cover printing a stop darker than in interior of book, second printing of books completely different color to first “test” printing etc) or even just the books getting crushed in their packaging before they get to me?Why does adobe continue the relationship with such bad quality? Does anyone have any recommendations for other book printing services? (I have used MILK in NZ who are really good but very expensive)?

After clean install of Win11 and reinstall of LRC and Photoshop, the icon for .XMP file is gone. Not a very big problem, but I was used to that icon, and find it a little confusing with both .XMP and .acr showing just blank sheets. Any solution?

Trying to import files from Sony A1II, and Lightroom classis says “preview unavailable for this file” and will not import. Lightroom Version 14.0.1Camera Raw Version 17.0 Creative Cloud says “up to Date” Googled and tried what I could find

When reviewing my photos for editing I select multiple images and rate them with stars (1, 2, 3, etc.) but after I rate multiple images at the same time Lightroom jumps back up. It’s very annoying because then I have to go back down and continue reviewing. Can you fix it, please?

Canon R6mii does not work with tethered shooting with LrC 15.1.1 running on macOS Tahoe 26.2 in combination with Firmware camera firmware 1.6.0.I have tried reset of setting on my camera also USB connection mode. If I set to import/remote it will only shows a computer symbol and charging.

I became aware of a security update for Lightroom Classic yesterday evening and set it to run over 12 hours later it’s still not 70% downloaded. Is this right or do I have an issue.It’s on an M4 mini only 6 months old. 1TB drive capacity and 32GB RAM. Thankfully I’m an amateur photographer not one who has deadlines to meet.  

I have noticed that LrC fails to create panoramas when, at least to me, it is obvious where the matches are.  I have attached a screen shot of the the photos and the proposed Merge, in 150628 and 105728 respectively below.I have a similar result taken at a beach where again it seems obvious to me, but the merge doesn’t include all images, see 110215 and 110427.