Lightroom Classic

Hey Everyone! I use sync'd collections daily to share photos with clients etc and it makes total sense if I make a virtual copy within a collection that then that virtual copy would also get sync'd to the cloud BUT often when I'm finished editing a session I'll make duplicates of everything and turn them B&W and I do this inside the computer folder NOT inside of the collection.  Lightroom Classic nevertheless still uploads those B&W versions to the cloud and adds them to All Sync'd Photographs.  So they're not in any of my collections folders yet they get sync'd to the cloud and then I have to go there and delete them every single time. Any wisdom as to why Adobe does this?  I wish there was a toggle button to turn this off.  If I want a Virtual Copy sync'd, I'd put it in the sync'd collection.  Just an annoyance... maybe something they're not even aware is happening?? Thanks in advance for any thoughts!

I was editing a photo in the develop module when a popup occurred roughly saying LRC has encountered a problem with the Preview Cache File and it had to close.When I reopened LRC everything thing was blank. In the library module all was blank except for file name and EXIF dataClicking the development setting button in lower right corner open-end the image in the Develop module with the adjustments applied so images and edits are the I just can't see them.There are about 30,000 images in this Catalog from a recent trip of a Lifetime safari to Kenya with about half the images with preliminary edits.I am happy the pictures are there. I think they are all backed up to the cloud but if it is only a link to the previews that would save a lot of time.This forum has been a great help before. LRC 15.0.1 Mac OS Tahoe 26.2

I had accidentally imported photos of 4 separate basketball games that occured in January2026 into my December 2025 subfolder of my 2025 main folder.  Using "Update Folder Location" I successfully moved them to my 2026 main folder, but on that folder was a small black circle with an exclamation point in it, which reveals a message that says "subfolder(s) are missing in this folder, please relink..."  I right-clicked on that folder and did not see any "relink" option, so I clicked on synchronize folder" and those photos promptly dissapeared!  HELP!! I am a sports photographer, and I need those folders to fullfill orders.  I have looked all over my computer, and in Lightroom Classic, and I can not find them.  Can anybody please help?

Ich nutze Lightroom. In Lightroom verwalte ich ca. 160000 Bilder und 10000 Filmchen (ava. mov, mp4 usw.)Alle Bider und Filmchen sind unterhalb eines Hauptordners in zahllosen Interordnern gespeichert.Für Bilder und Filmchen nutze ich Stichwörter und Sammlungen zum odnen.Ich möchte mir aus einer Untermenge der 10000 Filmchen Wiedergabelisten zum anschauen zusammenstellen.Leider gibt es ich Lightroom keine Möglichkeit, Filmchen aus Sammlungen zu exportieren.Es gibt in Lightroom auch keine Möglichkeit, eine Textdatei, z.B. CVS, mit vollständigem Pfadnamen und Dateinemen zu erstellen.Hat jemand eine Idee, wie ich aus einer Sammlung mit Videos eine Wiedergabelist für z.B. VCL erzeugen kann.Vielen Dank für Ideen.

The Lightroom Folder on my Mac is taking up 2GB. Which files can I safely delete to free up space?The Backups folder is taking up most of the space. Apologies if this question has been asked before, I'm a novice at file management and would greatly appreciate any help + explanations.  Thank you, Julia

Windows 11 has a default NTFS allocation unit size of 4K when formatting external drives. I am intending to use  a 4TB external ssd drive. However, I understand that large files or 4K video files are better suited to larger allocation unit sizes for read/write speeds. Allocation sizes include 16K, 32K and 64K and I see that 64 K is often recommended on the internet. I have many 20MB files and now shoot between 30-50MB typically plus some 5 minute 4k video files. However, if the Lightroom catalog is saved as a zip file, can it be opened in Lightroom Classic and used if NTFS format at higher allocation sizes are used uo to 64K? As a secondary question, can previously saved Lightroom zip files, saved on a drive formatted at 4K be opened if moved to a new external SSD drive formatted at say 64K?

I've uploaded many books from lightroom classic to blurb. Recently I've been unable to. The upload stalls and never completes. Lightroom classic says "waiting for blurb server processing". I'd be grateful for any advice.

I just went to print for the first time after upgrading from LR v14 and discovered to my dismay that all of my custom print templates in LR 15 on Windows had reverted to Color "Managed By Printer". The dozens of color calibration profiles I have for various printer/paper combinations had become unlinked from my templates. In addition, the drop down list of available profiles (the ones from "Choose profiles to appear in the popup") was empty. I managed to track down the problem to a case sensitivity issue by diffing one of the print templates I repaired against the copy that worked fine with LR 14 and earlier. In all of the lrtemplate files and the LrTemplateCache.lrcache in C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Lightroom\Print Templates, LR14 and earlier had written the paths to my color profiles using upper case for my Windows directory like this:printingProfile = "C:\\WINDOWS\\system32\\spool\\drivers\\color\\Canon Pixma PRO-100 XPS - Red River Palo Duro Soft

In LR 15.0.1, photo:saveMetadata() often returns before the metadata is actually saved to disk. In LR 14.5.1 and earlier, it blocked until the metadata was saved to disk. This causes significant problems for plugins that use Exiftool to update photo metadata, especially plugins that change capture date/time, e.g. Capture Time To Exif and Any Filter. (Notoriously, the SDK has never provided a method for plugins to change capture date/time.) The script in the recipe below demonstrates the problem by saving the metadata to disk for a batch of photos, running Exiftool to change the rating of those photos, then reading the metadata from disk. In LR 14.5.1, it completes correctly. But in LR 15.0.1, the save to disk often completes after Exiftool executes, overwriting Exiftool's change to the rating. To reproduce with LR 15.0.1 and 14.5.1 on Mac OS 15.7.1: 1. Install Exiftool if not already installed. 2. Download and unzip this catalog:https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/2m0btdfabt7aul4dsec17/asyn

When shooting with the XF 35mm f2 R WR on the X-T5, the lens correction file was not applied correctly, resulting in a discrepancy between the RAW image displayed in Camera Raw and the JPG image.

Screen capture of the LR screen with comments. 191 images in this catalog are greyed out and non-accessible. All the rest of the 6248 images in the catalog are viewable and have no issues. Pop-up error dialog I get when trying to delete/export any/all of these 191 images:“An internal error has occurred.?:0: attempt to index field 'rootfile' (a nil value)” Noticed that the difference in counts between ‘Catalog’ and ‘Folders’ panes on the left is 191. The same number as the number of grayed out images in Library view panel. See above link for some clarity. How can I delete/remove these from the catalog?

I am switching from a PC to a Mac and have my photos on an external HD attached to the PC. I now have the external drive attached to the Mac and have downloaded LRc to it as well. My question is how do I transfer just the catalog side because I don't need to move the photos....Thank you in advance Seth

I have a Surface Book 3 latptop running Windows 11 Home. The latest updates of Lightroom run soooooo slow, and I am constantly having to close it and start it again.   My laptop has a 2TB hard drive, Intel i7 @ 1.30GHz, 32 GB installed RAM, and two display adaptors (Intel Iris Plus Graphics and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti with Max-Q Design). Is my laptop out of date for the latest copies of LR and PS, or is there something I can do? Thanks!Here are the details:Operating system: Windows 11 - Home Premium EditionApplication architecture: x64System architecture: x64Logical processor count: 8Processor speed: 1.4GHzSqLite Version: 3.36.0CPU Utilisation: 12.0%Power Source: Plugged InBuilt-in memory: 32354.0 MBDedicated GPU memory used by Lightroom: 93.1MB / 5969.0MB (1%)Real memory available to Lightroom: 32354.0 MBReal memory used by Lightroom: 1049.6 MB (3.2%)Virtual memory used by Lightroom: 1213.8 MBGDI objects count: 733USER objects count: 2752Process handles count: 2821Memory

Hi. After updating to the latest version of Lightroom (15.1), I can't get the "hover over presets" option to work in the Develop module. It only works in the browser, but now it also shows up in the Magnifier. This is causing performance issues. Help.

Impossible de copier un fichier vers le dossier de destination, car il n'est pas accessible en écriture. LRC version 15.1, windows 11   {Moved from Lightroom Cloud to Lightroom Classic Forum by Moderator} 

I have been unable to import in Lightroom Classic for months now. The issue seems to be in the importer dialog as it won't load my photos in the import preview. I've given LrC full disk access on Mac. I've restarted. I've cleared my preferences and catalog. I've tried synchronizing the folder and skipping the import dialog. Nothing gets my photos into my catalog. Any help?

I recently downloaded an update to my Epson Printer XP-15000. Now I am unable to print from Lightroom Classic 15.1  Any clue as to How I can fix this? 

Hi,Synching from LrC has ceased to work properly.  I use it to synch collections that I can then use for my website in Portfolio.  Now the synched collections have disappeared within LrC and are no longer in the cloud.  I have tried to recreate the collections and to synch them but the process is very slow and idiosyncratic - 2 or 3 photos may take days to synch.  I have everything I can think of, incuding reinstalling lightroom.  What can I do? Mac OS Sequoia and latest version of LrC. Thanks, John

Sur mon MacBook Pro (M4, 2025), un dossier étrange nommé tout simplement / est apparu dans le répertoire où se trouvent tous les fichiers créés pour gérer mes photos. Ce dossier est volumineux (env 144 Go), et contient de nombreux fichiers, que je ne peux lire. Ce dossier est apparu quand j'ai changé d'ordinateur, et semble contenir des images. Quelqu'un a une idée de ce que peut contenir ce dossier ?  Merci pour votre aide. 

I was editing today and the right panel would disappear immediately I moved the curser onto the photo, I could get it back by moving the curser all the way to the right and coming on to the panel from the right. Now " edit" has disappeared completely, there is no longer an "edit' after library on the top right.  Can anyone advise me what to do?  Many thanks,  Don.

I disconnected my external hard drive where I store all my folders in LR.  The catalogue is on the main computer hard drive.  When I reconnected the external HD, there was an exclamation mark beside the name of the drive (Seagate), and all the folders had question marks beside them, and all were greyed out. I clicked on the main name of the drive at top of "Folders" and chose "Synchronize".  After the process had stopped, everything had disappeared!  So, no catalogue or folders showing in LR panels at all.   How do I get the catalogue back into LR, and the images/folders? Thank you.

I have a folder with some pictures in it. LRC numbers them in the order they were shot. Until yesterday, when I edited them in Topaz, after editing, the numbering and order of the folder was the same...IE, if I had just edited picture number 252 in Topaz, when I returned to LRC, the edited image was still 252. Starting yesterday, every time I edit in Topaz, that image becomes the last image in the folder. This is a pain as I lose track of where I am in the folder in terms of looking at and editing the images. I have made no changes to any settings on either application. How can I get LRC to keep the image numbering the same as it has been for years? I tried finding something about 'sort order' but I was unable. When I edit within LRC, the image stays in the same place with the same number. It is only when I edit in Topaz where the image now gets dumped at the end of the folder by LRC. 

I recently reset my 2015 macbook (running Monterey 12.7.6) to clear space and help it run better. I was running Lightroom Classic on it with no problem (besides my computer being sluggish due to space) and now I can't open the catalog I was working in through Lightroom because it's "too new to open". I was able to get a direct download link for Lightroom Classic 13.0 but that wont open my previous catalog. I tried installing LrC 14.0 but it won't work with my OS and I can't update because my computer isn't compatable. Is there a way to update to LrC 13.5 now? In the Creative Cloud app it only gives me the option to update to 15.1. I can always create a new catalog but I need the edits from the previous one for reference on a continuing project.  Thank you in advance!

Dans le module développement de LRC (V 15-1), un clic sur la fonction "copier" provoque systématiquement un bug, plus aucune touche n'est active .Merci d'avance

Opened LRc (15.1) this morning, pulled up an image to work on, clicked on "edit in" and all of the choices are greyed out and do not respond.  Does not happen with all images, but I cannot tell what differences between images there are that might be the problem.  All files including both those that can be "edit in" other programs  (e.g., Photoshop, Topaz Ai, etc.) and those that cannot are Tiff files produced by scanning in either photos or film.  I have been working on the same 5K images  for several years and never encountered the problem before. I am running a Studio  Mac 3 with the latest OS. Does anyone know how to fix this, or how to contact a live person at Adobe about this problem?