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November 13, 2025
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Denoise in LR Classic 15.01

  • November 13, 2025
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Lightroom Classice 15.01. Denoise runs when selected for an individual image or when synchronising a batch BUT the iamges are not displayed as the denoised versions in Develop or in Library view. No matter what I try it seems that Denoise just does not work anymore. I have tried auto synch whic runs throughy all the images (yawn) and then fails to actually denoise them. Also on closoing LR down the program fails to make a bnack up of the catalogue depsite it being directed to exactly the same folder it has always used. I have reset preferences and that has not worked. Any help would be apprecaited because as it stands, this is pretty unusable...

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DdeGannes
Community Expert
Community Expert
November 16, 2025

@Phil32329285mh2q , please indicate if you have the Option in Lightroom Catalog Settings, to " Automatically write  metadata to XMP " selected.

Regards, Denis: iMac 27” mid-2015, macOS 11.7.10 Big Sur; 2TB SSD, 24 GB Ram, GPU 2 GB; LrC 12.5,; Lr 6.5, PS 24.7,; ACR 15.5,; (also Laptop Win 11, ver 24H2, LrC 15.0.1, PS 27.0; ) Camera Oly OM-D E-M1.
dj_paige
Legend
November 13, 2025

Sounds exactly like this problem, which was never solved.

https://community.adobe.com/t5/lightroom-classic-discussions/lightroom-classic-not-saving-my-edits/m-p/15578838#M417642

 

In your case, does the History panel show the AI Denoise step? 

Community Manager
November 13, 2025

Hi @Phil32329285mh2q, welcome to the community!
To start, try going to Edit > Catalog Settings > General > Backup > When Lightroom Exits, then close Lightroom. In the backup window, uncheck "Test Integrity before backing up" and "Optimize Catalog after backing up", and go ahead with the backup for now.


If that doesn’t help, we can move everything from your current (and possibly damaged) catalog into a new one. To do that:

- Hold down the ALT key while launching Lightroom Classic
- Choose the option to create a new catalog and save it to your internal drive
- In the new catalog, go to File > Import from Another Catalog

This will let you merge your old catalog into the new one stored locally.
If you’d prefer video instructions, here’s a helpful walkthrough: https://adobe.ly/49jjSZh


Let me know how it goes, and feel free to reach out with any questions!
Thanks so much,
Alek

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Participant
November 17, 2025

@Aleke

Morning, so after best part of 48 hours of waiting for LR to import the catalogue i now get an error aying it has encountered an error in the file (see attached image). This is now getting very silly - I cannot use the programme to manage my images and earn income from them. I would really apprecaite an URGENT, workable solution please.

 

Phil