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Doctor Hugh
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Doctor Hugh
Community Beginner
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‎Nov 19, 2024
09:01 AM
One and only one image in my catalog looks bizarre after applying denoise under the Detail menu. A number of changes were applied (exposure, cropping, etc. — standard changes). Some were applied to a masked area as opposed to the whole image. When the denoise option is applied, the enhanced image is badly wrong. I cannot even describe it properly. I am including a sample image. Work is being done on a 2023 M2 Macbook Pro running MacOS 15.1 (Sequoia), 96 GB RAM. If I try similar changes to another image, I have no trouble, so I think I must have toggled on something for this image, but I have no idea what.
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‎Feb 14, 2021
06:53 AM
1 Upvote
Lightroom is brutally slow on Big Sur (version 11.2.1) — unusable. Constantly polling the hard disk — constantly. And in some cases taking minutes to build a single preview. Part of this is definitely a Big Sur bug (or malware). For example, file transfers of any kind involving an external hard disk take forever in Big Sur — 2 or 3 times longer than under Catalina. Disk checks, RAM checks, zapping NVRAM and resetting SMC had no effect. This is widely reported bug in Big Sur. Apple, of course, is pretending that there is no problem. The problems I am seeing are on a 2019 MacBook Pro with 64 GB of RAM and a 2.4 GHz 8-core Intel i9 processor. AMD Radeon Pro 5500M graphics card with 8 GB or video RAM. This system is only 2 years old, but that is about the timeframe for Apple to deliberately cripple a system in order to try to coerce users to blow another $3500 on a new computer. (And yes, it has be proven that Apple has done this in the past.) That Adobe is offering its bot response "We don't see this at our end" is just a reminder that both Apple and Adobe are really architects of malware and spyware now.
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‎Sep 19, 2019
05:19 AM
3 Upvotes
This has been a bug in Adobe Illustrator for years, and Adobe has never even admitted that there is a problem. I have this issue several times per week. I am unable to drag and move any object in Illustrator. I can select and move via the keyboard but not by mouse. The workaround (brutally time-consuming) for me is to restart the computer. Fortunately, there are shareware alternatives to Illustrator that are less prone to bugs and are better supported by software makers that are not the moneygrubbing MBAs that infest the management at Adobe.
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‎Oct 23, 2018
11:09 AM
Around 25% of my Lightroom sessions in Windows 10 end with Lightroom completely freezing my entire computer. Hard freeze -- no error message, no way to recover the Windows session, nothing. I must force a reboot of the system. This often happens while optimizing the catalog or while backing the catalog up. It may also happen while syncing via the Lightroom cloud services. So far, it does not seem to result in loss or corruption of data. Lightroom, has actually completed the task (optimization or backup) and then fails to close or end that specific routine. It has got to the point where I must back-up my entire system before launching a Lightroom session, because I must assume that Lightroom will hang everything. This is an absurd problem. I have no way of knowing what kind of damage Adobe is doing in the background to my system. It has been clear for years that Lightroom is an atrociously badly written program. It makes terrible use of system resources, and its functionality is clunky at best. And, Adobe, the competition knows that you pulling an Apple — capitalizing on a loyal user base. Your edge is eroding away.
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‎Jul 23, 2018
08:45 AM
I went through this series of steps exactly, and it did not work.
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‎Apr 24, 2018
12:36 AM
14 Upvotes
Nothing indicated in this "help" thread actually specifies ANY steps to be taken on a Windows 10 machine.
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‎Apr 24, 2018
12:33 AM
On WIndows 10, as of April 2018, the path name C/Users/User Name/AppData/Local/Adobe/OOBE/opm.db provided by Romit Sinha does not exist.
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‎Jul 15, 2017
05:03 PM
I get the new "New Document" dialogue window, but no combination of settings selected there result in being able to create a new doc. That is, hit "Create new" then his "Create" in the window that comes up. Nothing. Unfortunately, JJMack doesn't offer any context (Windows, Mac OS, preferences set in the context of the system management, a preference set in Photoshop); so even though that solution sounds on target, it's useless as written. I've checked all the preferences I am aware can be set on a Windows 10 computer, and nothing works.
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