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Schlimpitz
Schlimpitz
Participant
May 28, 2026
Answered

Adaptive presets related to portraits or subject no longer work

  • May 28, 2026
  • 3 replies
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I get this error message every time i try to apply an adaptive preset to an image.

All the portrait ones do no work, same for subject and blur background

Once you try to apply the preset, the error message pops up after 2 seconds. so it is not running and running to find something and then times out. Error Message pops up nearly immediately

 

Categories not affected are the sky presets and the landscape presets.

LRC Version : 15.3

 

Any idea how to solve this?

 

Thanks

 

Jay

    Correct answer Sameer K

    Hey, ​@colbytong. Welcome to the Lightroom Community. Thanks for adding the system info.

    In your System Information, the catalog is located at C:\Users\tachu\OneDrive\Pictures\Lightroom\Lightroom Catalog.lrcat. Please check if moving the catalog to a different folder that does not sync with the cloud helps at all.

     

    Thanks!
    Sameer K

    3 replies

    colbytong
    colbytong
    Participant
    June 21, 2026

    I’m having the exact same issue. Here is my LR system info.

    Sameer K
    Community Manager
    Sameer KCommunity ManagerCorrect answer
    Community Manager
    June 23, 2026

    Hey, ​@colbytong. Welcome to the Lightroom Community. Thanks for adding the system info.

    In your System Information, the catalog is located at C:\Users\tachu\OneDrive\Pictures\Lightroom\Lightroom Catalog.lrcat. Please check if moving the catalog to a different folder that does not sync with the cloud helps at all.

     

    Thanks!
    Sameer K

      colbytong
      colbytong
      Participant
      June 24, 2026

      That worked. Thanks!

      Schlimpitz
      SchlimpitzAuthor
      Participant
      June 16, 2026

      Is there a solution to this already?

       

      Sameer K
      Community Manager
      Sameer KCommunity Manager
      Community Manager
      June 8, 2026

      Hey, @Schlimpitz. Welcome to the Lightroom Classic Community. Sorry for the delay in reaching your post.

      I'll help you figure this out. Please share the system info from Lightroom Classic from Help > System info > Copy and paste into a text document > Upload and attach here. 


      Where do you keep your Lightroom Classic catalog? Does the issue occur randomly, or after you've applied specific edits, or several edits, to the image, such as Lens Corrections, Denoise, and Masks?


      Thanks!
      Sameer K
      (Type '@' and type my name to mention me when you reply)

      Schlimpitz
      SchlimpitzAuthor
      Participant
      June 10, 2026

      ​@Sameer K 

       

      Hi Sameer, thanks for the answer

      Here’s the file

       

      The issue happens all the time, no matter when i apply those changes.

      This actually used to work before

       

      Thanks

      Jay

      Sameer K
      Community Manager
      Sameer KCommunity Manager
      Community Manager
      June 23, 2026

      Hey, ​@Schlimpitz. Thanks for adding the sytem info. Please update Lightroom Classic to v15.4.1 and check if the issue exists. 

      Thanks!
      Sameer K

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