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Inspiring
May 15, 2025
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Custom shortcut doesn't work after last update. Lightroom Classic version: 14.3.1

  • May 15, 2025
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Custom shortcut doesn't work after last update.
I'm working with thousands of photos, and this is not funny right now.

 

Lightroom Classic version: 14.3.1 [ 202505061331-b063faef ]
License: Creative Cloud
Language setting: auto
Operating system: Windows 10
Version: 10.0.19045
Application architecture: x64
System architecture: x64
Logical processor count: 8
Processor speed: 3,6GHz
SqLite Version: 3.36.0
CPU Utilisation: 3,0%
Power Source: Plugged In
Built-in memory: 32686,8 MB
Dedicated GPU memory used by Lightroom: 2963,9MB / 6029,0MB (49%)
Real memory available to Lightroom: 32686,8 MB
Real memory used by Lightroom: 4996,3 MB (15,2%)
Virtual memory used by Lightroom: 8871,1 MB
GDI objects count: 839
USER objects count: 3261
Process handles count: 8125
Memory cache size: 938,1MB
Internal Camera Raw version: 17.3.1 [ 2227 ]
Maximum thread count used by Camera Raw: 5
Camera Raw SIMD optimization: SSE2,AVX,AVX2
Camera Raw virtual memory: 571MB / 16343MB (3%)
Camera Raw real memory: 804MB / 32686MB (2%)

Cache1:
Final1- RAM:456,0MB, VRAM:2179,0MB, _DSC0002.NEF
NT- RAM:456,0MB, VRAM:2179,0MB, Combined:2635,0MB

Cache2:
m:938,1MB, n:203,5MB

U-main: 131,0MB

System DPI setting: 96 DPI
Desktop composition enabled: Yes
Standard Preview Size: 1440 pixels
Displays: 1) 2560x1440, 2) 2560x1440
Input types: Multitouch: No, Integrated touch: No, Integrated pen: Yes, External touch: No, External pen: Yes, Keyboard: No

Graphics Processor Info:
DirectX: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB (32.0.15.6094)
Init State: GPU for Image Processing supported by default
User Preference: GPU for Export enabled
Enable HDR in Library: OFF

 

Correct answer johnrellis

Those Lightroom Queen instructions look correct.  The TranslatedStrings mechanism continues to work in LR 14.3 (after the change to the name of the file) -- my Any Shortcut plugin relies on it.

 

If you attach your edited en/TranslatedStrings.txt file here, I can take a quick look at it.

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Ian Lyons
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Community Expert
May 15, 2025

We may be able to help if you explained what the custom shortcut is and how you use it. Otherwise, we're guessing and that's not helpful to anyone.

Inspiring
May 15, 2025

Hello Ian,

Thank you for your help!

I used a workaround because unfortunately it is currently not possible to set custom key shortcuts in LR preferencies (against PS), although it would also be very useful in LR.
This solution worked perfectly until the last update.

  1. Quit Lightroom.
  2. Navigate to:
    • Windows—C: \ Program Files \ Adobe \ Adobe Lightroom Classic \ Resources \ en \
  3. Create a plain text file in that folder and name it TranslatedStrings.txt. Use a plain text editor such as Notepad on Windows or TextWrangler on Mac (free on the Mac App Store), rather than a word processor like Word. (This was previously called TranslatedStrings_Lr_en_US.txt in Lightroom Classic 7.0 through 14.2)
  4. In another text editor window, open the TranslatedStrings file for another language, for example, TranslatedStrings.txt from the es or es.lproj folder.
  5. The file is long and includes translations as well as shortcuts, so you’ll probably need to use your text editor’s search function to find the shortcut that you need to change.
  6. Copy your chosen line into the TranslatedStrings.txt and edit the shortcut after the = sign. For example, to change the Decrease Rating shortcut from a to ; you’d find the line that says “$$$/LibraryMenus/MenuShortcut/DecreaseRating=a” and change it to “$$$/LibraryMenus/MenuShortcut/DecreaseRating=;”.
  7. Save the file, and keep a copy somewhere else too, as it may be replaced when you update Lightroom.
  8. Restart Lightroom. If it doesn’t seem to work, check for curly quotes (“ ”) and replace them with straight quotes (” “), and ensure there are no blank lines at the end of the file.
johnrellis
johnrellisCorrect answer
Legend
May 15, 2025

Those Lightroom Queen instructions look correct.  The TranslatedStrings mechanism continues to work in LR 14.3 (after the change to the name of the file) -- my Any Shortcut plugin relies on it.

 

If you attach your edited en/TranslatedStrings.txt file here, I can take a quick look at it.