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HELP!!! I built smart previews and started working without my hard drive. When I was ready to export, I reconnected my hard drive but an exclamation point showed up next to the pictures. After I clicked it, all the edits on my photos DISAPPEARED! How do I get my edits back??? I'm about to cry just thinking I'm gonna have to re-edit all the photos again 😞

Hello,  I am using Lightroom Classic on a Macbook Pro and store all my files on two external 4TB hard drives. The first is the primary drive and the secind is for backup. When I import files the files go to both. When I edit, I only edit from the Primary Drive. I discovered that the primary drive no longer has space and that the Secondary Drive (backup) has about 1.5 TB available. I did my best to check to see if they match and they seem as though they are a mirror of eachother (by file folders and name). I  also ran Disk Utility on the Primary Drive and it confirmed that it is full and didn't indicate a problem. Are file sizes a different size once they are edited? Any info would be greatly appreciated.

Issue(s):- Files randomly losing their edits in Lightroom Classic. Some pictures show up right with their previous editing either in Library or Develop modules until I select them and they instantly lose their edits and return  to their initial state (no-edit). Undo command wouldn't revert to their previous state.   This shouldn't happen as I have checked the "Automatically write changes into xmp" option in the Catalog settings from thge beginning.   Environment :Lightroom Classic Version Number: V14.01 - Camera Raw 17.0OS Version Number: Windows 11 23H2Computer: Intel i7-12700KF - 64Go - Nvidia RTX-3090 24Go   Steps to reproduce: it appears randomly - I couldn't identify the kind of pictures that are affected or not. Expected result: Not losing hours of work already doneActual result: losing hours and money - losing confidence in Adobe products   [Moved from ‘Bugs’ to ‘Discussions’ by moderator, according to forum rules.]

This might be a bug? I was using color labels to sort some pictures, and was using the box in the grid view to apply a color label to photos.  I went into the metadata window and  opened the 'Edit Metadata' window for the photo I was looking at...  I decided against doing anything and cancelled the action.  Upon returning to the library view, now the color label icon isn't showing, thus there is nothing to click on to change the color label in that view.  Mysteriously the grid cells now show some of the color label in the view. Troubleshooting:1) right-clicking on the image going to color label->(color choice works)2) the color label choices are on the bar at the bottom.  They behave normally.3)The other clickable items in the grid view (flag, rotate picture) work normally.4) I tried exiting and restarting LC to return with the same situation.5) I checked the forum, went to the view menu and the show rating footer is turned on. I assume I

Hi! Recently, LR Classic stopped working for me. I ended up reinstalling it. I immediately noticed that my earlier work apparently had dissappeared. Anoying but no disaster as I have all files (originals and exported jpegs). But, the problem is that I cannot again import photos that I had imported earlier. LR says "it seems like this photo is a duplicate of a photo in the catalog". How can I access earlier import, or make repeat imports? Thanks a lot for your insights! / Mats T, Sweden

Bonjour,Je viens de faire 3 imports sur Lightroom Classic 14.0.1 (dernière version avec dernière mise à jour sur Mac Os Sonoma 14.2) depuis 2 cartes mémoires SD différentes et il m'efface totalement mes cartes après l'import. C'est surréaliste ! Avez-vous déjà rencontré ce problème ? Je ne trouve rien nulle part, je ne sais pas quoi faire !Merci pour votre aide.

Hi all, i've just upgraded to v14.0.1 of Lightroom Classic and i have a strange behavior that i didn't have before on v13.I'm on Windows 11 23h2 (22631.4317).When i switch to “develop” mode, the little squares for toggling the profile (Addobe, Camera, Canon in my case) are grayed out and not accessible, and if i zoom in on the image it doesn't update to render and sharp, it stays blurry.I have to switch to library mode and then back to development mode for everything to work properly.And it's the same for all my images, and i ahev to do it everytime, even if i already did this to an image.I should point out that I shoot in Raw with a Canon R5.It gives the impression that i'm on a preview image that doesn't have full definition and not on my RAW file.Is this a bug that has already been reported in version 14.01?

I'm looking to move photos around programatically. The basic equivalent of dragging a folder around in the Folders hierarchy. I can see how I could "move" any old file with LrFileUtils, but I want LR to keep track of the move in its index.Thanks,Andy

Hi all,I am struggling with how to change the sort order of collections that I am sharing publicly on the Lightroom Gallery on the web, and would appreciate some help please. I can sync my collections easily from Lightroom Classic to the web, and can see them in Lightroom on the web. I then want to use the 'Share in Gallery' function as shown below: After selecting this option, the collection appears in a random order in the Gallery list, and I don't seem to have any control over the sort order : So my question is "How do I change the sort order of collections in the content list of my Gallery?" As far as I an see, they are sorted by some random at, that does not reflect the name or creation date, and ends up with my gallery being all owver the place: Thanks in advance folksGeoff

Bumped into something "odd" this AM and I'm trying to track it down.  I shot a sports event earlier this week.  My typical workflow is to ingest with Photomechanic, edit & upload in Lightroom Classic (14.01), and display on a Smugmug site. When I looked at an image on the Smugmug site this morning, I saw "Any Vision" keywords on my files that I never added.  Moreover, I can see those same keywords via Photomechanic on images that I ingested with Photomechanic and brought into Classic, but never uploaded. I can see those keywords on my Smugmug site and via Photomechanic, but I cannot see them in Lightroom Classic.  Smugmug has assured me that they don't automatically apply any keywords.  I'm waiting on Camerabits/Photomechanic, but does anyone know if Lightroom Classic is now adding these keywords?  Thanks.

All drivers are up to date. This just started after last update. I have tried everything I read on the subject. Below is lightroom system info.   Lightroom Classic version: 14.0.1 [ 202410161356-30922cfc ] License: Creative Cloud Language setting: en Operating system: Windows 11 - Home Premium Edition Version: 11.0.22631 Application architecture: x64 System architecture: x64 Logical processor count: 20 Processor speed: 2.9GHz SqLite Version: 3.36.0 CPU Utilisation: 19.0% Power Source: Battery Built-in memory: 32439.0 MB Dedicated GPU memory used by Lightroom: 2143.7MB / 7960.0MB (26%) Real memory available to Lightroom: 32439.0 MB Real memory used by Lightroom: 9012.6 MB (27.7%) Virtual memory used by Lightroom: 12885.2 MB GDI objects count: 848 USER objects count: 2677 Process handles count: 2540 Memory cache size: 1838.2MB Internal Camera Raw version: 17.0 [ 2043 ] Maximum thread count used by Camera Raw: 5 Camera Raw SIMD optimization: SSE2,AVX,AVX2 Camera Raw virtual memory: 6

Hi,recently I started noticing the same issue described here:Re: Lens Correction Issues Namely:1) I import all my pictures with a copyright preset, no development settings2) all my pictures taken with the sony 16mm fisheye have the lens correction automatically turned on (this lens has an adobe supplied profile). I'm not sure when this started happening because I don't use a fisheye exactly everyday. I can say that this doesn't seem to happen for any other lens.I don't have another fisheye here, so I cannot test.Also it didn't happen the last time I imported such pictures (same catalog, same computer, different Lightroom - it was july 2016).Does anybody have an explanation?thanks

No llego a trabajar mas que minutos y el programa se cierra generandome un error en el cual jamás me llega el reporte!

Hola a todos. He querido conectar mi cámara Canon R6 MarkII al macbook M3 (Sequoia 15.1) con conexión wifi y no me ha sido posible. sin embargo lo hago con Capture One y va directo y como un tiro. ¿Alguien ha tenido este problema y ha sabido solucionarlo? No he conseguido averiguar nada a través de los manuales o ayuda online robotizada que nada aportan si no es fustración. A veces quieres mantener el software de edición con el que siempres trabajas pero la falta de soluciones o ayudas a estas incidencias hacen que te plantees finalizar con la suscripcion e iniciarla con otras opciones mas resolutivas. En fin.....

I normally have LrC set with a Raw Default based on my camera (Sony A7rV). This does a few things like set my preferred sharpening, some basic exposure settings, etc. This is all fine when I use my camera normally, i.e., take pictures and import them.But, sometimes I use tethering when I use the camera for scanning negatives for further processing with Negative Lab Pro. It's about the most efficient workflow. In that case, I don't want this preset/default applied. There is no apparent way to turn that off or apply a different preset during tether like I can do with Import. Or am I missing something? Do I really need to go to preferences and turn off specific camera raw defaults and make Global a different preset that zeroes out nearly everything? It would seem better if the tethering window had a way to override that.

LR is taking too long to make Smart Previewshey therewhen i make Smart Previews to all the raw files in the catalog  ( to taranfer them to outside editor ) LR just slow . its takes me alot of time to finish the process LR - only using 30 % CPU and 0 % GPU  my Pc is very very strong . using the AND 5900Xand RTX 3080and all the raw files are on internal SSD (sumsung 990 pro ) i got 5000 raw files in the catalog and i really think to Buy the M2 ultra just becues of that ! its just me ? 

I've now had a colored pop up come up in Lr Classic 14.01 and ask to "refine previews for HDR to use them in the Library Modue." If I click yes, it proceeds but takes forever...I see a status bar for like a half hour. This has been occurred through multiple starts over a few days since I upgraded to 14.0. I had problems with LrC crashing recently, apparently unrelated to this, but involving possible corrupt file I created today. I deleted all my previews as a consequence, but then got the popup agains. Even though there's like only about 500MB of previews currently in Previews.lrdata. But it's growing as I watch. What I wonder is whether if it finds something not "refined" for HDR if it rebuilds ALL the previews for all the files in the library. Or if I should just ignore it. I do use HDR all the time, and I like now being able to see HDR in the Library, but this is kinda nuts.

Hello.I mostly work in Bridge and Photoshop but need to use Lightroom because it has a "Map" module. Baffling that Bridge does not have this, but I digress.I am trying to figure out if there is a way in Lighroom to "Import" a group/folder of photos so that only Lightroom upon import creates a Symlink of sorts that points to the location of the group/folder without actually copying those photos. The issue I'm having is when I import using Lightroom, I end up with another "Library" that has those same images which is doubling the use of disk space. Is it possible to Import  folders/photos so that the photos are "left in place" rather than copied?  I see that the three option for import are Copy as DNG, Copy, Move, and Add.I hope I'm making this clear. Apple's Final Cut video edit app allows you to "Leave Media in Place" on Import, and this is what I'd like to do in Lightroom.Thanks Jonathan

Hi, ich habe eien neue Festplatte. Nun will ich in LR C die Ordner von C: auf die neue Platte C: anhängen. Wie geht das ? 

I have been using LR Classic since version 1, but have not studied the nature of LR catalogues until now. As new versions of LR Classic appeared, new catalogues have been created automatically, and, sadly, I have been ignorant of this. I now want to merge them all into one catalogue, as per the recommendation in your help text.Presently, LR Classic catalogues and data files are located as seen in the attached document "LR-Classic_Catalogues and Data Locations.pdf".I will prefer to have the resulting single catalogue and related data located on the external harddisk, with the original picture files. This is to save space on my laptop's harddisk.I will be very happy to receive advice on how to go about this in a safe way.

Buongiorno, possiedo un laptop configurato come sotto e nell'impiego della riduzione del disturbo con AI non riesco a scendere sotto i 5 minuti di tempo necessario per ogni foto elaborata. E' normale ? Da cosa potrebbe dipendere ?Grazie anticipatamente Processore Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-10610U CPU @ 1.80GHz 2.30 GHzRAM installata 16,0 GB (15,8 GB utilizzabile)Tipo sistema Sistema operativo a 64 bit, processore basato su x64Scheda video integrata Intel UHD GraphicsDisco fisso SSD da 1 Tb occupato al 5 %

It would be great to move Collections over to another catalog (and not folders associated). My goal was to move all my portfolio-potential images (in collections) over to its own Catalog.  I only see my file folders available to move. I would imagine LR could find a way for this to work. They have made so many leaps and advances, lately.  If I am mistaken and it is possible, please share. Maybe I missed something. 

I have lightroom Classic on my PC and am loading my images on to LRC which then connects to Lithroom icloud.  However Icloud is uploading all the images, including those I have rejected for LRC.  I need to find out how to change this or the correct procedure for uploading.  (As I am ending up with stored images in Lightroom icloud that I dont want stored.  What can i read or wathc to learn about this.    [moved to the correct community - Mod.]

I'm using Capture One and Lightroom Classic on the same machine. How do I prevent Lightroom from seeing and copying the raw images I have in Capture One? Both occupy the Pictures folder. Yes, Im new to Lightroom Classic. macOS Sequoia

Hi!I just upgraded to LR Classic 14.0.1.  Filter by edited imaged doesn't work anymore!Please fix! Thanks