Lightroom Classic

My entire photo catalog from Lighroom is missing. Thousands of photos.

Using Windows 11 and Lightroom Classic 15.1.1  I’ve had success deleting the Lcat files, but having to do that everytime is becoming a pain. I have also tried resetting preferences while launching Lightroom CC which doesn’t do anything in my scenario. 

ok so i never realized on my computer that lightroom classic was saving all my raw files to my computer, so yesterday it ran out of storage. i looked on google countless times before asking chatgpt if there was a way to fix the issue. long story short it told me it was safe to delete my mobile downloads.lrdata file, but it deleted all the raw files on lightroom classic. i’ve gotten it to redownload/ sync about 2000 pics, but i don’t edit on lightroom mobile that’s my big issue, i only import. is there a way to get all of my raw files back onto lightroom classic until i can move them to a hard drive. mind you i had about 25000 saved… so this is a nightmare 

The only altered attribute was "Temp / Tint". The problem was resolved by unselecting the photos and then reselecting the same photos.     [Moved from ‘Bugs’ to ‘Discussions’ by moderator, according to forum rules.]

Windows LR doesn't correctly open a catalog folder exported with Mac LR with File > Export As Catalog, Export Negative Files, if the Mac catalog folder contains subfolders with non-ASCII characters (e.g. á or é). To reproduce on LR 14.2 / Mac OS 15.2, Windows 11:   1. Download this .zip file containing a catalog and photos to your Mac desktop: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/stbx8iyfekqk9xkuri3fi/accents.2025-02-14.zip?rlkey=xt283tc32rjarroeu4bz90jlh&dl=0   It contains a catalog created with Mac LR by doing FIle > Export As Catalog, Export Negative Files.   2. Unzip and open that catalog in Mac LR. Observe that it contains four photos in two folders and none of the folders or photos are marked missing:   2. Download the .zip file to your Windows desktop.   3. Unzip the .zip using these exact commands:   cd Desktop tar xfzv accents.2025-02-14.zip   Do not use the Windows ZIP built-in to File Explorer. It still doesn't correctly handle paths c

I am having so many syncing issues, and am hoping someone here can help me figure out the issue. I recently moved about 200K of my 250K photos to a new hard drive, and relinked all of them in LrC. There were no issues with relinking, and there are zero missing photos. Every photo has a smart preview and its original. However, when I add these already imported photos to a new or current collection, they will not sync. In the upper right corner, it says all photos are ‘Synced’. But when I go to the Sync Activity window, it shows thousands of photos ‘Uploading’ in the window. I’ve tried rebuilding the sync data several times and let it run over night. I’ve also tried deleting the Sync.lrdata file and letting it resync. I’ve also optimized my catalog, and tested the integrity. Nothing is working.  These photos I am trying to sync appear in the All synced Photographs section, but will not sync when added to a new collection.  If I import new photos to my library and add those to a collectio

Hey everyone,   I just got a drone - a mavic 4 pro - and some of the files are a little noisy, so I tried to clean them up just like I do with all my Z7 pictures.    Unfortunately it looks like those files are not supported yet (maybe because the drone is rather new ?). When applying denoise, the ISO noise becomes considerably worse instead of disappearing. And the further right you move the slider (more denoise amount), the worse it gets as well.   Here are picture examples (this is on 100mpx main camera 28mm files, not 25mpx ones - so maybe the quad bayer has some impact here ?) :    Is this a known bug ? Is it gonna be fixed anytime soon - and did anyone else encounter it ?   Best, Greg  

I added a lot of metadata to files in LR.  I had intended to start the year using this before Bridge.  So I was going to then save the metadata to files, so that I would have it in Bridge.  I got a warning that it would overwrite and data there.  In the 1st folder I went ahead but in the 2nd I realized that I had already cropped a whole lot in Bridge and this would likely overwrite that work. I tested on a couple and they did lose the crop. I didn’t want to overwrite and lose all the crops.  So then I had to re-add all the metadata again (such as location, keywords, descriptions, etc) in Bridge.  Should I now re-import them back into LR to get the crops and metadata added in Bridge?

Hi All,In LR5 I have added keywords to photos as well as videos.In Windows Explorer detail view I can select “Tags” as a column and see and search on the keywords for image files. But this does not seem to work for video.(I can search videos via keywords inside LR5.)Is it a limitation of some kind? Or is there something I’m missing?Thank you for any suggestions.  

In Lightroom Classic, I held down ctrl key while trying to drag sliders with the mouse. The sliders either did not move or would move one number in a direction one time. I did this because I forgot that alt, not ctrl, performed the function I wanted. What does holding down ctrl while clicking sliders with the mouse do? Did I mess anything up in Lightroom Classic or my database by doing this? I cannot find any information about this. Thanks.

Hello, Since the installation of a graphic card (RTX 5060), there’s some visual bug on thumbnails ie. for Character selection masking.  Does anyone have an idea ? Thanks ! Here’s my specs :Version Lightroom Classic: 15.1.1 [ 202601141538-a543b18a ]Licence: Creative CloudParamètre de langue: frSystème d'exploitation : Windows 11 - Business EditionVersion : 11.0.26200Architecture de l'application : x64Architecture du système : x64Nombre de processeurs logiques: 16Vitesse du processeur : 4,2GhzVersion SQLite: 3.36.0Version Adobe GSDK: 1.4.0.171Utilisation du CPU: 0,0%Source d’alimentation: BranchéMémoire intégrée : 31853,8 MoMémoire GPU dédiée utilisée par Lightroom: 3733,2Mo / 7895,0Mo (47%)Mémoire réelle disponible pour Lightroom : 31853,8 MoMémoire réelle utilisée par Lightroom : 7821,1 Mo (24,5%)Mémoire virtuelle utilisée par Lightroom : 17164,4 MoNombre d'objets GDI : 2386Nombre d'objets utilisateur : 4870Nombre de processus gérés : 5413Taille de la mémoire cache : 1137,4MoVersion in

 Shot all weekend? Now comes the most time-consuming part: culling. Or is it? It’s Monday, and you’re coming off a weekend packed with a holiday family photo session and an eight-hour wedding—complete with two assistant photographers. Now, you're staring down gigs upon gigs of files to sort and cull. Take a sip of that coffee (or tea), and get ready to have your mind blown—and your culling time cut in half.   Try Lightroom Classic Download the latest version and dive into the new Adobe Lightroom Classic features. Adobe Lightroom Classic Lightroom Classic 15.0 just got a major upgrade. Read more about how to keep Lightroom updated here.  In the latest MAX release of Lightroom Classic 15.0, you can now leverage the awesome power of AI to help you cull your images to a more manageable number, helping you get back to what matters most to you. With Assisted Culling, you choose to select images that meet your subject focus, eye focus, and

I want to search for all with a keyword in subfolders in LR.  Is this not possible, as it is in Bridge.  Help searches only tell about Bridge. Like here, I want all in 2601.  

Me ajude por favor, estou começando agora a usar o App, não sei com abrir no computador e no celular so aparece LR como fazer pra usar o modo lrc e como abrir no computador?. Desde já agradeço

I’m writing a Lightroom Classic plugin with lua, which generally works quite well.However, I have an issue with a very fundamental thing:Displaying an error dialog that simply has a single close button.No matter what  I try, at least on my Mac I always get an OK and Cancel button.What am I doing wrong?LrDialogs.presentModalDialog{ title = Global.moduleName, contents = myContent}Thanks Klaus

I'm using LrC 13.2 and Win 11.  The camera is an OM System OM-1 producing .ORF raw files.When shooting raw+jpeg or a separate raw and jpeg of the same scene and settings, then importing directly into LrC, the raw is rendered quite a bit more saturated than the jpeg, particularly in the greens.  They should be about the same.  I've used the camera matching profile "Camera Natural".When doing the same exercise in OM Workspace, output derived from both the raw and the jpeg, are almost indistinguishable.  Another poster on Digital Photographic Review, has independently noticed the same issue.Below are two images to demonstrate.  The one the left is derived from the jpeg, the one on the right from the ORF.  Both are from a single shot as a raw+jpeg.  I can offer them in higher resolution but I suggest you borrow and OM-1 and try the exercise yourself yourself.

Catalogo de trabajo con todos los ajustes de revelado con 29353 fotos, segundo catalogo como archivo con 98761 fotos. Se trata de copiar los ajustes de revelado del catalogo de trabajo al otro catalogo usado como archivo general. Las fotos del catalogo de trabajo también se encuentran copiadas en el catalogo general antes de procesarlas. Sale este error:Lightroom no ha podido importar este catálogo debido a un error desconocido.

New to LR and trying to learn and don’t understand why I am getting a page like this.  Can’t do anything. Images all overlapping.  

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Hello everyone,big trouble: when I import pictures they look good at first, the whitebalance is fine. as soon as i go to my edit panel in Lightroom CC the colors of my (not yet edited) picture switch dramatically, its mostly the white balance that goes wild. Any ideas what is happening? I'd love to start my edit on the picture here on the left, instead of having to make corrections first. Especially with many pictures in the queue.(You might hate the whitebalance on the left compared to the right hand side, I understand, but thats only for the visualisation. On any screen, and also in-cam, it shows me the left side colors.)Appreciate any answers! Raphael

BonjourLe contexteJ’utilise Lightroom Classic sur deux ordinateurs, un mini Mac doté de la puce M1 et un autre mini Mac doté de la puce M4.Les photos et les sauvegardes (ou backup) des catalogues sont stockés sur un disque externe.Le problème rencontréMi-janvier, sur le mini Mac M4, j’ai fait la mise à jour de l’OS vers la dernière version macOS Tahoe. Depuis, je rencontre des anomalies dans les fichiers backup : Le fichier le fichier zip constituant un backup contient deux éléments, un fichier lrcat et un dossier lrcat–data, et désormais deux fichiers temporaires lrcat-shm et lrcat-wal. Ce backup n’est pas exploitable sur un autre ordinateur avec Lightroom. Lorsque je visualise le contenu du dossier catalogue sur mon mini Mac M4, je constate bien que les fichiers temporaires shm et wal ont été supprimés. Si je crée un fichier zip avec les deux éléments utiles, le fichier lrcat et le dossier lrcat–data, j’obtiens une archive qui est tout à fait utilisable sur un autre micro ordinate

I now have the Lightroom Classic version 15,1,1 camera raw 18,1  and the Tahoe 26,2.  When I wan to get red off some pictures; I now get an error message :  the file could not be moved to the Trash.  The files are on a volume that does not support Trash ! Would you like to delete them permanently ? And 2 buttons : 1 delete permanently and a second one “cancel”.  But before the 26,2 version there was not a problem at all. The Trash has the great advantage that if needed you could “reset” the files back to the place they were originally stored.  All of my photo pictures are stored on an external harddrive.  Even all my files (docs/ pdf / music ) are stored on several external HDs.  Any idea how to fix this ? On all these drives I have “reading and writing “ authority.

Today I am pretty sure LRC updated and I got some pictures that I took today and when I went into Develop the Color Profile is just showing Beta. There are no color profiles like Landscape etc. I looked through google etc saying could be that it wasn't shot in Raw. I checked my camera says Raw and the Files are ending in .ARW. Am I missing something that maybe I am not seeing?