Lightroom Classic

I have never used Lightroom but got it when I purchaed a PS license.  I see lots of posts about disk space problems but none that describe what causes these problems. I have 19K images filed as I like them in a bunch of folders.  I see on Lighhtroom that I can import without moving.  BUT, I do not want to duplicate the files as they already take up a fair amount of disk space.  Does the catalog simply build a DB of pointers to the files where they are or will it create copies, effectively doubling my disk use? I am using LR Classic on Windows 11.  All image files (that I want to catalog) are in my One Drive Pictures folder.  

When I am editing my photos after awhile of editing 2 things will happen. One is that the Adjustment knobs on any setting will slide but wont change anything on the photo. Or what will happen is the edits are made but it exports it without the edits. And it's really weird and odd to work with. The second issue is the photo will just turn black. It just decides to turn into a black square. This is super irritating I haven't changed any settings or done anything different please help I actually can't get any work done!!!!!!! I attached a photo showing you this very weird issue. you can see that in the top left photo it's got blue on the bike. However in the main photo area it's purple. I want it to be purple but it doesn't export the purple one. It exports the blue one?????   [Moved from ‘Bugs’ to ‘Discussions’ by moderator, according to forum rules.]

I have been asked by a local store to make postcards and note cards of my local photography. I thought postcards would be easy and I have mocked up a custom print job creating 4 cells 4.25x5.5. Dropping images in them, the images do not conform to the cells, but with a little work I can get them close. How can I get the images to adhere to the 4.25x5.5 format? Or maybe I need to use other paper. At this point all my work is in draft.

Where in metadata (which tag) can I find the people names added in Lightroom Classic People View? I'm starting to think that I have spend huge amount of time of putting in these names for these athletes and it seems that they are not implemented in any reusable way in the metadata so that I could now batch edit the metadata to fit certain requirements (that want me to put the name in specific place in the caption). Instead of putting these names in [PersonShown] tag which would be intuitive and reusable, they just go inside [Keywords] where I can not find or use the names in metadata batch editors.I also noticed that in the initial catalog these keywords (names) still have People-attribute but after adding them to my archive catalog, this information seems to be gone as well. Please tell me I'm wrong and there is a way to find these names in specific unique metadata tag. I'm in Win11 with LrC 13.5.1 with Sony arw and export them to jpeg with 'All metadata' but it se

Since upgrading to 14.0.1 I am getting an error message when attmempting to create a new SmugMug gallery.The message says try again or contact support.I was able to get around the problem by first creating the new gallery on my SmugMug site.  I could then edit the gallery in LR and upload photos.

I spent over an hour chatting with tech support. He could not explain why this happened or how to avoid it or prevent it from happening again. I had set up auto update and have now disabled it. Has anyone else experienced this? Or have any ideas about why this happened? Has it happened to you?

Wie kann ich aus den Voreinstellungen einen externen Editor entfernen, dessen Programm bereits deinstalliert ist?

  I want to use a Samsung T7 external SSD with LrC.  That works.  My question is - can I use alonger cable between the T7 and the computer.  And if yes - how long?  Six Feet?  As long asthe cable is USB-C to USB-C and 3.2 rated?  Will a longer cable make a noticeable differencein terms of speed?                                           - Thanks ... Jim

Hi all,   I have LIghtroom Classic and for a number of months it seemed to be verry slow to respond.  It's excruciatingly slow for everything.  I noticed I was high on my computer RAM but I fixed that and it is still an issue so it's definetely LRc.  I've seen a few other topics close to this but no solutions specifically.  What happened?  I am using 14.01

Hi everyone,   I have a Lightroom Classic on my mac, 12.5 release. But I do not have generic AI option under develop, do I need to upgrade the version?

"unable to merge the photos.Please cancel and review your selection" I use:  LR CC, last version, Mac OS 2024. CANON R5 (HDR mode 3 pictures: -2, 0 , +2). What I do?    

Not sure if this is a bug, recently updated to Lightroom Classic 14.0.1 release, running Windows 11 Home 23H2 build 22631,4317 with 2 monitors both in 4k mode. 64GB RAM, Nvidia RTX 2070 Super, AMD Ryzen 9 3900X Edits on the main screen do not show up on the 2nd screen (which they did on all previous lightroom version) Second monitor has Show, Full Screen and Loupe - Normal ticked. If I move the mouse over to the second screen after making amendments on the main screen  the image on the second screen changes to an all black image  the remainder of the loupe screen is there but the image is now completely black.

Hello.I have been searching troubleshooting steps because I no longer have any video features available in Lrc 14.01. I select a video in Library grid view and it displays as if a jpeg in the windows. When I click on it - it either zooms in or zooms out, no video options at all.Very few similar issues found for Windows in searches.A tried typical troubleshooting step of uninstalling all the C++ apps, rebooting and reinstalling them - did not work.I tried deleting the Video cache a few diferent ways - did not work.I uninstalled and reinstalled Lrc via the Cloud app. did not work.Yet when I pass my mouse back and forth over the video in grid view - it shows the video in motion. Ideas?Thank-you

Bonjour,J'étais jusque là sur une version de Lightroom sans licence (2020 il me semble), je viens de m'abonner. Après téléchargement de l'application, je n'arrive pas à ouvrir mon ancien catalogue .ircat... Comment procéder s'il vous plaît ? 

When I am in the ‘Folder’ area in LightRoom classic, I see the number of 26 images behind a folder. When I go to the Finder, around 300 images are displayed.If I now synchronise the folder, LightRoom recognises that approx. 274 images need to be added. These are all CR3 files with an associated XMP file.When I start the synchronisation, I get the message that LightRoom has not found any images to import. Surely the images should be imported?Apple MacBook Pro M2, 15.0.1 SequoiaLightRoom Classic Version 14.0.1What is the reason for this and how can I fix it?Many thanksStefan

I have two hard drives in my computer, both are full. I now want to move folders from the internal drives to an external drive, when I try to do so, it simply move one image not the whole folder

Hi all,Can't seem able to find this option?Thank you.

Is there a way to find a photo based on the date it was printed?

It would be helpful to have a keyboard shortcut for Auto-Stack by Capture Time.  I use that feature very frequently and it would save time to have a shortcut, if that's possible.   {Moved from Lightroom Cloud to Lightroom Classic Forum by Moderator}

I export a photo, enabling Content Credentials attached to the export. If I then extract the thumbnail, it turns out to have hundreds of lines of EXIF data including at least the camera and time/date.  First of all, there's an issue as to whether that EXIF actually adds value, but more important, it's not hard to think of occasions where I might want to attach provenance to a photo but not disclose further details.  I regard this as a serious privacy vulnerability.   [moved from bugs to discussions according to the community rules - Mod.]

I cannot open a compressed backup file of the catalog. The message says that it cannot find the lrcat-data. But they stand side by side in their folder.

I moved folders to a new hard drive by copying and pasting using OS (Mac).Then I selected "update folder location" in LR and chose the appropriate folder on the new hard drive.The folders disappeared from the old hard drive but were nowhere to be found in the list of folders on the new drive. The images seem to be there somewhere because they cannot be imported.I would be grateful for advice as how the missing folders can be found.

I am a new Lightroom user, watching a Youtube video, I imported 4096 jpg images into LR, and it has choked. It is unable to display the images in the Library. I run a Macbook Pro with 16 Mb of RAM and 400Mb free on disk. I have tried deleting perviews.lrcat, to no change. I do not know what to do now.

Since the update, Lightroom Classic is so slow as to be almost unusable.   It can take up to 10 seconds to get a reaction.   I have a 10 core i9, 64 GB Ram, everything is on SSD.Culling of photos is almost impossible, working with the catalog as well.   Any ideas? I hope it concerns enough people to warrant a fix from Adobe.   [Moved from ‘Bugs’ to ‘Discussions’ by moderator, according to forum rules.]