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December 10, 2024
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Chat support for Light Room Classic

  • December 10, 2024
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I have dealt with Adobe's Customer Care Support for a long time.  When an issue is difficult, the agents are ot always able to help.  When I request an expert I get resistance.  One issue took about a year to fully resolve.

 

Now a new issue and I am not getting appropriate help.  None of the agents so far have been able to figure out a solution.  One that I worked with thought he had solved the problem, but later it occurred again.  He called me again about this, decided the Catalog had been corrupted.  He did what he called "collecting" my catalog, which I assume meant he brought a copy over to the Adobe computers.  Told me I would get an email about it and he would call the next day with instructions for what to do.  This occurred on Thursday, the call was supposed to call Friday.  I have not heard from him yet.

 

I have sent multiple emails to Adobe Customer Care requesting help.  Finally got an email this morning with a call back appointment for tomorrow.  But no comments on what level of technician would be calling, just an empty apology for the difficulties I have been experiencing.

 

Why are the Customer Care communications anonymous, very impersonal, often incorrect as to the issues?  Why do agents not call at the time a call back is scheduled?  Several times the call has been dropped, whether intentional or not, and I wonder why they do not call back.  

 

Does anyone know how I can resolve the communications issues?  Without some kind of consistency and dedicated attention to a complex issue, it is almost impossible to expect success.  Each agent has different ways of approaching things, but usually it involves trying things already done by others or by myself.  Then they get lost in my catalog trying to find the specific example of what should be investigated.  Some are more considerate and listen to what I say about my difficulties, which makes it easier to work with them and make progress.  Others think they know everything and I know nothing!  So I am supposed to sit back and watch them jumping around in my Catalog, trying things that could mess it up, and that is unacceptable.  I have had to force my control over the mouse, in order to prevent them from doing what I see they are getting ready to do.  I have also had to sign out of the chat.  

 

To be fair, I have also had excellent experiences with Customer Care, but it is unpredictable.  I have learned a lot but still cannot handle all situations myself.  Any suggestions would be welcome for how to communicate with someone who can straighten this out and provide me with the level of assistance needed.

Thank you.

 

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johnrellis
Genius
December 10, 2024

Your email describes very well the experiences that many customers have with Adobe customer support. For all but the most routine issues they are sometimes helpful but often untrustworthy.  Adobe's hardly atypical -- highly skilled technical support is very expensive, and most people would rather pay lower upfront prices than higher prices that include the costs of support. But it is unfortunate that too many people have reported over the years that support will say pretty much anything to close out an issue.

 

You can often get better answers to difficult questions on this forum, especially if you're willing to fully describe the issue, provide all the details requested along with full-resolution screenshots, and sometimes upload sample files to file-sharing services. But it can take time due to the narrow bandwidth of forums. Sometimes people on this forum can be abrupt or jerks, but nearly everyone here is sincere in wanting to help.

Participant
December 14, 2024
Thank you for your comments John Ellis.  Hopefully my Catalog is OK now, for the most part.  
Still some images to locate on backups to import, because for some reason they were deemed either incompatible or corrupted by the method used to import my pictures into a new Catalog.  That agent wrote an email in which he described some of the processes used so I could know how to work around the system and import those photos.  It is tedious work, but I have done similar things in the past.
Right now I have another problem that perhaps someone here can advise me if there is a solution.  I had a folder for the backups of the Catalog I make when closing Lightroom Classic, which has either disappeared, or contents deleted.  I do have some other backups, have to open them and see if they contain the images I need.  Depends on when they disappeared.  I have been looking at my recycle bin to see if any pictures are ones not intended to be deleted.  Another tedious task.  I have been afraid to empty the recycle bin because of ongoing problems and worrying that I will delete something and wish I hadn't.  
johnrellis
Genius
December 15, 2024

"I have another problem that perhaps someone here can advise me if there is a solution. "

 

I recommend starting a new thread on this, so others are more likely to see the question and respond.