Questions

My patience with Apple has run out. After many years I am moving back to PC. This is because there are simply too many unexplained performance issues.My question is, how to I best prepare to move my entire system.I currently use an iMac where the LR Catalogue is on the internal disk & all the master image files are stored in an external RAID system (thunderbolt). It may be in the future that I trust Adobe to store & manage my master files, but not yet.I sync my entire library to the cloud, which I use on mobile devices for reference. (I have played with editing, but it is still far too restrictive.)I will install a Windows 10 PC next week & my intention is to simply copy the LR catalogue to the internal hard disk on the PC & plug in the external RAID to the thunderbolt port on the PC motherboard.I have no idea if the RAID system will automatically work with the PC, or whether it will have to be reset & reformatted. I will work this one out.I am assuming that the pat

Can I plug my camera card into my reader and then connect to the computer? Or, plug card directly into the slot on the computer?

In "Library" mode I see an image I'd like to edit. When I double click on it and then "Develope" I get a message "File Cannot Be Found" What am I doing wrong?

Hello All... (Thank You in advance!)16+ years ago I had an external hard drive fail on me. As a result I lost close to to 19,000 photographs, videos, etc...A family member recently passed and I thought I'd try to recover the drive that I was unsuccessful with back when it failed, for use in a memorial slideshow.    I found some software that I highly recommended. (ReCuva Pro). Subsequently the software although only some, recovered some of my photographs (3,000+).  However it did recover 213 Zipped Lightroom 4 Preview catolog files.  I dug out my original Lightroom 4 disc and installed it successfully on my current system...   Is there ANY possible way of recovering these files in my current installation of Lightroom 4..??? i would Truly Appreciate Any an All help...  Thank You in Advance...

Why does LrC run SOO much slower than LR desktop on my MAC?

Hey, everyone! I already looked for a solution for this issue, went on reddit, but I can't seem to figure out what's wrong. I have Lightroom Classic on my PC desktop (ver. 14.2 on Windows), and recently I got a laptop where I installed Lightroom CC (ver. 8.2 on Macbook Air). I synced a collection in one of the catalogs of Classic, the idea was to be able to edit some things on the laptop while away from home. I usually use smart previews to edit, and then connect the HDD where the raws are to export. The collection synced perfectly to both Lightroom CC and the cloud (all the photos are there). If I make a change in Classic, the change happens both in CC and in the cloud, but if I try to edit something in CC, it just won't sync back in Classic. Basically, it appears syncing only works one way (from Classic to both CC and the cloud, and not the other way around). Am I doing something wrong? Do I need to enable something? Thank you very much!

I tethered my camera and I can photoshoot with LrC but I cannot activate Live View. I push Live button but live view doesn't open any screen. There is a Note on LrC support page: "Live view for Canon 5D M2 works only with the Still Only mode" But I don't find Still Only mode on my camera. 

How to open 2 photos as layers from the lightroom to photoshop !!  Stop working..?? It is so frustrating to have issues again and again, when you have something you need to finish and know it will only take 5 min !! If it was working .!! I can't open my computer without there is an update to Adobe !!! Why not test it Before you let it out in the open !! There are some who don't have time to sit and fight the issues. !!

After upgrading both Topaz AI and Lightrooom to their most recent versions I receive an error message in Lightroom Classic stating that the file is not compatible/corrupt. The TIFF file is rendered but instead of a photo, there is a blank gray box where the photo should be.  Has anyone experienced this and if so, could you recommend a fix.  Thanks @ Winding Path Photography   [Moved from ‘Bugs’ to ‘Discussions’ by moderator, according to forum rules.]

Ne fonctionne plus correctement, plante sans arret, importations tres longues, s'arrete à 15 photos (bibliotheque ne repond pas ) etc. Je voudrais donc réinstaller LR Classic  (je suis abonné ) Quid du catalogue ? J'ai téléchargé la dernière mise  à jour, vu toutes les autres causes de dysfonctionnement. Le contact d'aide d'Adobe est nul

Hi all,My company is using Lightroom Classic and would like to access the same catalog and imported photos across multiple laptops. I understand Lightroom Classic is designed for local storage, but I’m wondering: Is it possible to store my Lightroom Classic catalog and photo library in a cloud service like Dropbox or OneDrive, so I can open the same catalog from different laptops (not simultaneously) and continue editing where I left off? I don’t want to switch to the cloud-based Lightroom (due to budget constraints), but I’m comfortable with a bit of a manual workflow—as long as it’s stable and won’t risk catalog corruption. Has anyone here done this successfully?Thanks in advance!

Hello,I have a newish Macbook Pro M3 Max, 48GB of memory and Sequoia 15.3.2. I have plugged in a Samsung Extreme SSD which has a lot of folders containing images (raw and processed), which has been my Lightroom library on an older Intel based Mac (from end 2019). When I open LCC on the new Mac with the SSD plugged in, Finder can see the contents no problem, but LCC just says 'no photos found', despite having subfolders ticked and the drive visible at the root of the tree view on the left. Anybody any ideas why this is?RegardsAndrew Richards

So I try to search for a file name, or a name and I always get "No photos match the filter". I have always found this with LR and so have never used it as a database, since it's pointless if you can't search it!I am trying to find a picture which I was working on last week which is not showing up in the Library where it is in my finder, ie in Pictures. It is not there and when I try to Import it again it won't let me, but won't show me where it is in the Library. I have tried highlighting all photographs still no luckHow do I sort this out! ?? Any help on this gratefully received.Thanks, Nick

I have created a small dialog window using a combo_boxI am facing two issues: 1. Only 5 entries are displayed in the dropdown, no more than that.2. At first the scroller faintly appears, then disappears.I have set scrollers to always appear in the Mac settings.The scoller disappearing is not a big issue.Can the limit of entries in the dropdown be extended?I tried using height_in_lines but doens't work.

I'm running Lightroom Classic on macOS Sequoia 15.1. I notice that I'm not getting the latest version. When I check for updates in the Creative Cloud desktop app it says I have the latest version 13.4 but I see on Adobe's website the latest version is 14.0.1. I have already logged out and logged in again and tried a repair.How can I get the latest version? 

I recently got LR6 upgraded to LrC 14.2 on my Win10 laptop. All my photos and backups are on a NAS external drive.  I can find and open all pictures an any photo viewer. They are all there. But I would like to get all my folders back in the Library section of the screen under "folders." I have many folders for each month/year I took pictures.  My final edits are also on the NAS drive.  How do I get the folders to all show again? I did try importing from another catalog (my last backup which was end of March.) and it threw an error (see attached) Basically I need to remap my Library to see all the folders on the E: drive, or at least select the folders for my lightroom work.  Thanks in advance for assistance. 

Ich versuche, Fotos von einer externen Festplatte in den Katalog zu importieren, aber es passiert nichts. Es handelt sich um circa 200.000 Fotos.

Estoy intentando editar el fondo de una fotografía y al querer usar la mascara de selección de fondo, esta solo parpadera como si fuera a comenzar y se esfuma.Las mascaras de selección de sujeto y cielo funcionan correctamente, además probe la de objetos, rando y drgeadados, estas también funcionan.  Pc: Windows 11, grafica 3060 12gb, 64 ram, ryzen 7 5700gVersion 14.2 de Lrc y 17.2 de Camera Raw. Para intentar solucionarlo probe:- Revisar no hubieran actualzicaciones de Windos Pendientes- Actualizar controlador grafico.- Borrar cahe de Lrc.- Reestablecer preferencias de Lrc- Probar si la función, arrancaba con otro catalogo- Desistalar Lrc y volverlo a instalar, borrando antes de la nueva instalación los archivos residuales del pc. Agradezco la ayuda.Saludos. 

Hi, can you "color" pictures before importing them? I'm used to Photomechanic and I'm a sports photographer and I want a quick way to throw away the ones you don't want before importing.

Hiya. I'm adding text watermarks to my finished edits and adjusting them each time to blend subtly in each photo. When I get it just right and then click done to preview the export, the opacity I've configured changes every time. To compensate, I often take a guess at much lower than needed- sometimes it's invisible to me- and that gives me a watermark that's good enough when it does its own thing afterwards! What's going on here? I'd totally much rather use this feature functioning properly; is there something I can do, or is this a bug? Thanks!    [Moved from ‘Bugs’ to ‘Discussions’ by moderator, according to forum rules.]

I have scoured all the threads on Sync issues and none of the suggested soltions have worked.  Here is some context.My Macbook is old and will not update past MacOS Monterey 12.7.6 I have over a TB of unused HD space.Updates in my creative cloud for LR Classic and LR are showing as 'Not Compatible' due to my OS I am using Lightroom Classic V 14.2 and Lightroom V 8.2My workflow is iphone sync to the moble app, whichs syncs to Lightroom, which syncs to LR Classic.  I've been doing this flawlessly for years.The sync to mobile from iphone works.  the synce for LR Mobile to Lightroom works.  I had a period of several months recently where I was not keeping up with the sync and the photo/video sync volume grew to over 700.Sync stops in LR-C at a random number.Rebuild Sync Data does not work (but can change the number at which it stalls)Delete All Sync Data does not work, meaning the feature doesn't work.  The popup link is dead.In my Lightroom Sync fol

I try to open the catalog above, but nothing happens. Is that not a catalog? Where can I find the right one?This is what it looks like where I think that the catalog will be:    

My workflow requires significant amount of moving photos (no way around this). My photos are significant, typically over 1GB. Recently, large delays have developed, both with moving files, creating folders, developing, and right clicking. Typically 1+ minutes to react. It occurs on all my storage drives, a variety spinning hard drives and NVME drives. I can temporarily fix this by optimizing the catalog, but it returns after working on 10 or so images. Last, these large photos are panoramas, made from a few different images. When I select all the images, they will all move (after the delay) EXCEPT the panorama made from these images. If I select multple groups of these original images and panorama, they will all go, except for one single panorama with the "error while moving files" popup with "file could not be moved to the selected destination". The only way to get around that, is to select the panorama with another image, move them both, then move back the one I don't want.

Hi guys,When I use Control+A to select all images in my "Francis" collection in Lightroom, I expect to find them all highlighted when I go to the All Pictures folder. Not so: some are and some are not. That's disturbing. Am I missing something?Thanks a lot.