Continual lock up when trying to replace or add additional keywords in Library Module

Question

I'm running Lightroom Classic V13.3 on a 2019 iMac using Sonoma 14.1.1.  Since updating to the latest LRc version, the system locks up (unable to add or delete) when editing keywords for specific images.  This problem seems to get worse the longer my LRc session runs.  I generally do a shutdown w/o backing up and that fixes the problem for a while.  I've also shut down with backup but that doesn't seem to resolve the issue.  I've been working on LRc for nearly 2 hours this morning and this problem has occurred about 7 times; it was probably 40 minutes before this first happened in todays session.

johnrellis · Answer

First steps in troubleshooting this:

1. Try deleting the Helper.lrdata folder:

a) Do Catalog Settings > General > Show to open Finder / File Explorer on the current catalog folder.
b) Exit LR.
c) In that folder, delete the folder "<catalog> Helper.lrdata".
d) Restart LR, and it will rebuild the folder.

The Helper.lrdata folder caches information about metadata, keywords, folders, collections, and other things to speed the performance of LR and it can sometimes get corrupted. In recent versions, LR has used it more heavily to improve the speed of displaying metadata, and there have been a fair number of bugs with it.

2. Try resetting LR's preferences:
https://www.lightroomqueen.com/articles-page/how-do-i-reset-lightrooms-preferences/

LR sometimes soils its preferences file, and resetting it can fix all sorts of wonky behavior. That article explains how to restore the old preferences if resetting doesn't help.

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