Lightroom Classic

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 !!!

The navigation panel of Lightroom Classic do not expand after certain limit, which is causing folder names to crop. Kindly consider this feature request 

Hi guys,I received an alert that says: REPAIR CATALOG  The Lightroom Catalog-2-2-v13-3” is corrupt and cannot be used until it is repaired.The repair process may take several minutes. …… It has been several hours and the wheel is still twirling. I have a Macbook / Sequoia 15.1.1And I have the backup drive. What’s your best advice? Thanks a lot,

I need to add captions to images showing my contact info, the source or origin of the image and the URL where downloaded document was found.  Many of these are downloaded images of text documents.  I want to keep the originals caption free and just export a jpg of the image with the caption.  Is this possible within LR?  Or, is there a plug-in that will do the job?

Ich habe Lightroom Classic seit einigen Tagen nicht mehr benutzt. Als ich heute dsamit arbeiten wollte ist mir aufgefallen, dass sich die Radial- und die Verlaufsmasken nicht mehr verschieben oder in der Größe verändern lassen. Habe ich versehentlich etwas umgestellt (was ich mir nicht vorstellen kann), oder ist das ein neuer Bug?

Hi, I've just reformatted my mac. Beforehand I had saved my local adjustments presets but now I can't find a way to import them back in my reinstalled version of LR Classic.I've done it several times by the past but maybe due to the new version of LR Classic, nothing seems to work this time. What is the correct way to import them ?(I had no problem with importing Develop presets though) Thanks in advance for your help ! Chloé

Issue: Lightroom Classic Version Number: 14.1.1 Camera Raw 17.1OS Version Number: W11 24H2 Build 26.100.2605CPU Ryzen 9 5950X32GB RAM2x M2 SSD je 1 TBKatalogeinstellungen- Gesamtgröße 273MB- Standardvorschaugröße Automatisch (2560px)- Vorschauqualität: Mittel- 1:1 Vorschauen automatisch verwerfen: NIE- samrt Vorschauen Gesamtgröße 30GB Presets:- Teilkompatible Entwicklungs-Presets anzeigen  Voreinstellungen:Leistung - Camera Raw Cahe: 30GB- Vorschauen parallel erstellen Steps to reproduce:.  Vorschau in standardgröße erstellen "es wurde nur ein foto ausgewählt " - Alle erstellen  4-6h für 10.000 FotosExpected result: Actual result: 

Hi ! Could someone explain me how can I upload pics in the new library I just created in my 20 GB space that is given to me with my Adobe account ? Thanks, Olivier (France)

Lightroom CC 2015A client or collaborator has selected, lets say, 200 images from a shoot of 5000. I need to output those 200 files. The easiest way to do that is if they can email me the file names and then I can enter those file names into Library>Find in LR and then tag or flag those photographs. But how do they export a list of those filenames?Or is there another way or sharing selects?

Issue: When attempting to import video files if there is a HEVC/H.265 encoded file in the folder being viewed, all video files (including H.264) will not be viewable or importable and just show the error "Preview unavailable for this file".   LrC version: 13.2 Mac OS version: Sonoma 14.3.1   Steps to reproduce: Open LrC Click on the Import... button Navigate to the folder with the files   Expected result: LrC should show the video file previews and allow import of the files. Actual result: If there are only H.264 files in the folder, all files preview and import correctly.  If there is a mix of both H.264 and H.265, or only H.265, all videos files show the error "Preview unavailable for this file".   Additional observation: If I try importing a folder with H.265 files in it, which will fail with the same error, then exit out of the import dialog and then try importing again and open a folder with only H.264 files, they will only show the error message. 

Long time Lightroom user here having issues with video files only.  Not sure exactly when this issue started as I haven't imported video files for about a year now.  Running a Mac Mini M2 updated to Sonoma 14.2.1. For some reason I am unable to import (or preview) video files anymore.  Previews in the importer show the error "Preview unavailable for this file" and if I try to import anyway I get the error "There is a problem with the video file".  I have tried resetting preferences, reinstalling LrC, going back to v.12, disabling/removing all plugins, playing video files in Quicktime before trying to import, copying files off my memory cards to my desktop first, removing VLC player, etc.  Been searching for help online and in this forum for a couple of days but have been unable to find anything to fix my issue.  All video files previously imported in LrC work just fine.  I even copied a file that is already in my catalog from a couple of years ag

I recently added a new external hard drive for my photos beginning with 2025, since my original hard drive is almost full (it has images through 2024). I have connected the new hard drive to Lightroom and have been able to work on new images taken in 2025. When I connected the old hard drive to work on some 2024 images, Lightroom did not show them (only the 2025 catalog thumbnails since the 2025 hard drive is disconnected). How do I get Lightroom to show my photos from the old hard drive? The images are on the drive so it appears the catalog isn't connected, although the catalog for the old hard drive is backed up on my computer. I also noticed when I first connected the new hard drive to Lightroom that LRC seems to have updated. For example, my keywords from pre-2025 do not show up. My goal is to be able to use both hard drives and be able to work on images in Lightroom from whichever drive is connected. Thank you.

Hey where did the Range Mask option go, where you could select, luminance, color or depth? It used to be at  the bottom of all the masking tools. I want to mask off the luminance of a linear gradient like this guys shows in his video: Fast forward to 11 minutes 30 seconds to see what I mean. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K61jUqy3mzM

Since today, when I try to import photos into Lightroom Classic it just hangs. There is 2TB of free space on the destination disk, and 1TB free on the disk I am importing from. When I view Windows task manager, I see a process Adobe Crash Processor. I restarted the Windows 10 desktop, and then restarted and tied again. Same problem, Lightroom just hangs. I waited one hour.  Still hanging. I stopped the process Adobe Crash Processor but it is still hanging. I selected only 1 photo to import, and same problem. Does anybody know what the problem is, or how to fix it? Thanks in advance,Dave

Me está fallando mucho ligthroom y photoshop , hace dias no he recibido actualizaciones. Les pasa?

I have just got a new Mac mini and installed Lightroom Classic.   When I create a new panorama or denoise a photo LRC shows it in a new location rather than beside the source photos as it used to do when I was using my previous computer.   The new location in LRC has the same name as the correct location but is shown separately not under the correct path.   It is not possible to move the photos from this new folder to the correct place.  The new photo is in the correct location on the Mac.   I have the latest versions of software for both the Mac and Lightroom Classic.I can see others have asked this question here several years ago but none of the answers were helpful  to fix my problem.My old computer isn't working so I can compare the settings I had previously.   What do I need to do to fix this?

Bonjour, je n'arrive pas a installer une ancienne version de premier  je suis un peu perdu ....

I'm a faithful Lightroom Classic user (for > 6 years), and usually process photos multiple times/week. Just yesterday, I clicked on my desktop shortcut to open the app, and nothing appeared on my screen. I shut down my laptop, and tried again. Still no app opened. I checked the taskmaster, and it showed Lightroom Classic as running, but nothing on my screen. I then opened Photoshop, and it opened nicely on the laptop screen. So I shut down the laptop again, and tried to open Lightroom Classic again. Still nothing appearing on the screen. Any thoughts?

Hello everyone,    My lightroom has been super slow lately. I see each button loading and it takes a while to change from library to develop interfaces.    Trying to use the mask effect is so laggy. It was just super slow.    I read that sometimes the catalogue size can make the program slow so I made a new catalogue and now it seems to be working fine once again.    My question however is on Adobe official page it says catalogues are optimized for hundreds of thousands of photos (I had about 30 000 photos in my catalogue).   So do large catalogues slow lightroom down or is there another issue I'm facing? 

Goal: I want to convert all images to DNGProblem: some raw files are not converted.  Here is how you can follow on your pc:  I have some stacks with raw files (in my case .cr2), what contain three pictures for an HDR or a few for a panorama. I have put them together in a stack. Then I created HDR and Panoramas from these, the new files are created as DNG files.  When I select the whole folder and then select from the menu library -> convert to DNG, a lot of files are converted, however, there are two problems: only the first of the images on the stack are converted, the rest remain in raw (in my case .cr2)already existing dng files (such as the hdr and panorama I created) are also converted again to DNG and added "-2" to the file name. (you can also see attached a screenshot of my folder).  What I would expect: to convert all raw files independet if these are in a stack or not (these were not virtual copies!!)I would expect that

Hi, I have LrC installed on my Windows 10 Laptop and my new Windows 11 Desktop.I haven't been able to open my catalog (now on my desktop) with my laptop. I decided to uninstall the laptop. How can I do it without affecting the installation on my desktop?.Thanks in advance for your help.