Lightroom Classic

Hello,I've filled the hard drive that holds my Lightroom Classic image libraries and am ready to move to a larger drive. I do back up this drive. I have around 5 TB of data, do I need to perform the entire move within Lightroom, dragging and dropping folders, or is there a way to point Lightroom to the new location after using something like Carbon Copy Cloner? I've moved folders within Lightroom and am familiar with the process, but it seems to choke on large folders and I have to break them down, which is tedious. For what it's worth I'm on an M4 MacBook Pro running Sequoia 15.1.1 Thanks,Chris

Hi! I use Lightroom Classic for my college. I have a catalog that I accidentally upgraded to v14 using my college computers, and now my own computer (which I will need to use to complete my assessments) won't open my catalog because the version of Lightroom is too new. My computer is a MacbookPro 2015, which the OS Ventura does not support, and LC v14 requires Ventura. Is there a way to downgrade my catalog? Or upgrade LC anyway? Or some other method? Or have I lost all of my college work and have absolutely no means of being able to work on my assessments? It's required to be able to work on our photos at home, and I can't afford a new computer.

 1. Version: LRClassic 14.1.12. macOS Sequoia 15.2 3. When I try to view a photo in full screen in the library module of LRClassic, I just get a black screen. 4. Expected result is that my photo would be enlarged to full screen, but the actual result is that I just get a black screen. 

Bonjour,J'ai des photos dans ma collection lightroom classic pour lesquelles le symbole "metadatas à synchroniser" coté lightroom reste affiché (filtre metadata statut 'a été modifié') meme après l'action de sauvegarde des métadatas depuis LrC.Pourtant, les metadatas données modifiées sont bien enregistrées dans le fichier quand je controle avec bridge ou exiftoolgui.Déja vérifié : - les photos sont en lecture écriture- effacement des données exif, xmp, iptc avec exiftoolgui puis enregistrement des metadatas par lightroom.Merci d'avance pour votre aide. 

I'm trying to be chilled here and not too critical of LrC.   I recently had to create a new catalog - long story short it got corrupted. After several rounds of creating a new catalog and then "Import from catalog" from the old catalog I am back up and running. However as much fun as that was over the last two weeks or so, not a lot can compare to how utterly awful the Lightroom sync experience has been. As part of the creating a new catalog, sync will only sync with one catalog and I learnt the hard way that LRC will then import tens of thousands of smart previews back to your PC for reasons I cannot understand, given that the originals and their previews are there in the first place.    Eventually, I decided to get delete all synced photos and start again. Initially I tried "delete all synced data" in true helpful fashion all this does is direct you to the Lr web site. This is where I learnt that there is literally no "select all" in Lightroom mobile / or web: I had to

Please help smarter people than me. I've been on a 2 week holiday and Lightroom Classic has going to sh*t on me. I'm getting an error that says "An unknown error occured 51", and now I can import photos". I'm running 14.1.1 (I just upgraded hoping this would help the problem. Mac version: 15.2 (24C101) I'm just trying to import. 

I am running LrC on an Apple Macbook M1 (Sequoia 15.2) and print images from an Epson SC P800. In the past, printing on matte paper required fine-tuning the platen gaps and paper thickness settings from the print dialogues in order to avoid smudging issues with the printer. I will admit that this printer choice was a mistake but replacing the printer isn't really an option at this point. Is the lack of advanced paper controls an Apple software issue or an Adobe issue? Do any workarounds exist to access paper controls in PS or a third party software? 

As we are about to hit the new year (2025) and in light of the recent post by ADOBE describing their roadmap for productivity improvements - here are two simple changes that would improve my productivity especially when culling a set of random photographs (aka the most recent download from my phone or camera). Both of these to stop the endless and tedious scrolling while hunting for a destination Folder or Collection in the left sub-panel 1. In Library, right-click move to "Favorite Folder" 2. Similarily, right-click add to "Favorite Collection"   We can already desingate favorites for collections and folders - just trying to make them easier to access without losing the focus on the folder/collection you are presently in.....   JC MacOs 15.2 Sequoia, Mac Studio M1-Ultra 64gb/2TB

I'm new to LrC/PS.   I have the Adobe Photography Plan subscription for my MacBook.  I have made several catalogs and made a lot of mistakes organizing those catalogs.  Fortunately, I haven't created any work that i want to keep, so I want to start over.   Should I delete my catalogs, if so how?  (I do not my existing catalogs to interfere in any way with the new ones.). Or should I uninstall LrC/PS and reinstall?

Hi,I am using Lightroom Classic to Edit my photos and everytime I am using GENERATIVE REMOVE it is not removing or changing the one I wanted instead it is just making it more transparent please see the picture below.e    [Moved from ‘Bugs’ to ‘Discussions’ by moderator, according to forum rules.]

I'm getting a laptop for my teenage step-daughter, so that she can start using Lightroom with her photography GCSE. I've found one that meets the minimum spec for Lightroom Classic, and in some areas exceeds it. The one area I'm not sure about is the graphics card. It has Intel® Iris® Xe Graphics, which supports Direct X 12.1 and has 4GB of dedicated RAM. I've only ever had NVIDIA graphics cards myself.Is there any reason why I shouldn't go with the Intel® Iris® Xe?I know there's better graphics cards - there always is - but is there any reason why a Intel® Iris® Xe won't be fine?Thanks,Andy

Is there a way to export develop settings for each photo in LRC to Excel or delimited file?

Hello, new to the community and in need of help from you. I am not computer savvy so step by step simple explaination would be appreciated.Task at hand, moving Lr5 catalog, pictures, adjustments and library structure from interal ssd of old intel MacBook to new MacBook M3 internal ssd utilizing LrC. Done so far:  Migration from computer to computer, do not want to use Rosetta  Have Time Machine backups, on 2 external hd's, they are journaledWould really appreciate any help frome someone who has done this or knows how. Thank You,Mike  

Hallo in  meinem Lightroom Classik Version 14. 0.1. ist im Modul Bibliothek links bei den Bedinfeldern das Bedinfeld Katalog verschwunden. Also bisher waren da mimmer die Bedinfelder- Navigator- Katalog- Ordner- Samlungen- Veröffentlichungsdienste Jetzt fehlt das Bedinfeld Katalog. Wer weiss wie ich das wieder anzeigen kann? Danke für die Hilfe! 

After a day of shooting I have realized that time in my camera was incorrect (few minutes mismatch with my gps tracker). Is there any way to add certain time to all selected photos capture time (6 minutes)? I can do it one by one but it's just a torment .

I have Lightroom Classic 14.1 installed. Here is the system information: Lightroom Classic version: 14.0.1 [ 202410161356-30922cfc ] License: Creative Cloud Language setting: en Operating system: Windows 11 - Home Premium Edition Version: 11.0.22631 Application architecture: x64 System architecture: x64 Logical processor count: 20 Processor speed: 2.9GHz SqLite Version: 3.36.0 CPU Utilisation: 0.0% Power Source: Plugged In Built-in memory: 65220.6 MB Dedicated GPU memory used by Lightroom: 159.1MB / 5996.0MB (2%) Real memory available to Lightroom: 65220.6 MB Real memory used by Lightroom: 3078.8 MB (4.7%) Virtual memory used by Lightroom: 3940.4 MB GDI objects count: 761 USER objects count: 2344 Process handles count: 6474 Memory cache size: 78.0MB Internal Camera Raw version: 17.0 [ 2043 ] Maximum thread count used by Camera Raw: 5 Camera Raw SIMD optimization: SSE2,AVX,AVX2 Camera Raw virtual memory: 46MB / 32610MB (0%) Camera Raw real memory: -4073MB / 65220MB (-6%)   I inst

Issues: 1. Lightroom classic will not let me import a single file, it imports the entire folder,            2.  LC has a difficult time re-importing or finding a file I have already worked on. As far as problem 1, I now have to create another folder with nothing in it and place that file in it, then import into lightroom.  This is dumb.  If I wanted my entire folder imported, I would simply, select all, then import them. Problem 2.  So, after I import the file  and work on it, after I export it, this program has a hell of time finding it again.  I get messages like, "no file' or someting like that.    BTW. tech support agreed with me and said he would submit feedback.  For now,  I still have trouble re-loading a file I have already exporeted and worked on.   This should not be this difficult. my setup;    Mac OS Monterey 12.0 ,  M1max chip   

Hey guys, I have recently come across a huge issue where Lightroom randomly exports my photos much darker than how they were edited; some photots will export perfect and others will export dark randomly. My colorspace is sRGB and my monitor display settings are correct.  I have also tried pulling them into Photoshop from Lightroom, and same thing, looks much darker than how they look in Lightroom. I will use a preset for a photo and it will export perfect, then use the same preset and it exports dark, super weird. Anything helps! 

I am an old man who is having great difficuly exporting photos in Classic. 1, I would prefer to export in tiff. 2, when I export the jpg files open in LR. The person I am trying to send to does not have LR. When I try to open a file in opens LR. How can I export in tiff and in such a way it does not need LR? i am becoming very frustrated. I must be doing something wrong but I am stumped. Please help.

Hi everyone,  Could you please help on adjusting the export settings for the below requirements..I am not so sure how to set DPI on Lightroom.. Thanks 1. 72 dpi JPEG files.2. Longest axis should be no greater than 1440 pixels.

I work with Mac OS Sequoia(15.2) and Lightroom Classic (Lightroom Classic version: 14.1.1). Very often actions in Lightroom are not executed or are executed very late. For example:I press “Automatic” in develop mode and nothing happens. When I close Lightroom and open it again, I see the changes I made previously.Something similar happens when changing folder names, for example. The change is not displayed, close and open Lightroom and the name is changed. Adding to Quick Collections takes a very long time (sometimes several minutes).These problems do not always occur. Sometimes everything works as usual and then suddenly nothing works anymore.Does anyone have similar problems?   [moved from bugs to discussions according to the community rules - Mod.]  

Hello, I have a similar problem.   I am using LR classic cc(subscription) and my catalog is on an external hard drive. All my photos are on external hard drives as well. Some on the same hard drive as the catalog.  I have been using windows 10.   Recently I got a new PC windows 10,  and plugged all my drives in. I opened the catalog and got the same error message "Lightroom cannot write to the following directories,   c/User..."  also all the hard drives show up as folders as usual but the dreaded ? and !  signs show up and not images are synched. I assume because of the cannot write problem.  All files are present on the hard drives on the new computer but just not able to open them or synch them in Lightroom.  Please advise, and if it is a permission problem, please provide step by step directions for PC since I am not that well versed in such things.  Also do I need to log out of my adobe acct on the old computer?thxsc

First of all, please understand that other than photography (which is obviously both technology and art), my tech skills are knowledge are actually pretty minimal. With that out of the way, my problem is that my laptop is just about completely out of space. I used the Windows storage tool to see where this space was being used, and not surprisinlgy the Pictures folder was over half. If not for Lightroom, I would just back those pictures up to an external hard drive and delete them from my machine, but the problem is that I know that Lightroom is dependant on the original files being accessible to it. I've even moved some images in the past and that alone removed them from Lightroom, because I guess the path was no longer the same. I would hate to essentially lose those images from my Catalog and therefore the ability to refer back to them in the future and even apply future edits to them. But, again, my laptop is essentially useless if it's out of space. How do you think I sh

HiMy lightroom classic has been working fine until suddenly one day about a week ago when it crashed my computer, bluescreened and restarted.If i don't launch Lightroom my computer will work fine but if i launch Lightroom it will slow the entire computer down to where clicking the start menu takes 3-5sec to appear. I've upgraded my memory to 64gb and put in a new nvme drive (ran tests on both to make sure everything is ok), re-applied thermal paste, cleaned fans, etc.I've also re-installed Windows (2 days ago), fresh ISO from Microsofts website and of course fresh install of Lightroom Classic without installing any plugins. The problem is STILL there, if i open a new catalogue the problem is less severe but still noticeable.When checking the task manager the computer is not running anything very high, processor is less than 10%, memory is stable at around 8-10gb (64GB available), Disk about 1-2%, GPU is also around 1-2%.If i close Lightroom the problem persists until i restar

Je recois l'écran suivant en click sur Dévelopement: alors que mon abonnement LR est en ordre !!!