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I am trying to instal Lightroom 6 on a third computer. I have uninstalled it from one of the others and signed out on the second and my Adobe account says I have no activated devices. However when I try and activate it on the new machine I can't get past the licence agreement screen.  I click on Yes to accept, the window closes and nothing. Has anyone had this problem.

I recently upgraded to an M3 Macbook Pro and moved my Lightroom catalog over (LR Classic 13.5.1). Everything works fine, but the videos won't preview or play. The video files are all fine, and I can play them in Finder. After trying everything from reinstalling lightroom to deleting caches and preview files and plugins to ensuring that Lightroom has full disk access, I came across a post somewhere that downgrading to LR Classic 13.1 and loaded an old catalog and the videos work perfectly. I would stay on 13.1, but the old catalog doesn't have the last three months of my photos. This appears to be a bug.

I get the error message:Error performing function. Unable to complete the action.   Headers:  {     [error] =>  {         [error Code] => "timed Out"        [name] => "The request has expired."        [native Code] => -1001    }} What does this mean? 

  Friday, Sept 6, 2024 Welcome to the Lightroom Classic community monthly newsletter! Each month, we bring you all the essential highlights to keep you up to speed with the latest in the Lightroom Classic community. From inspiring content by Adobe creators to must-know updates that enhance your editing workflow, we’ve got everything you need to stay connected and creative. Dive in and explore what’s new this month!   Open Lightroom Classic Featured Content How to use the new Remove Tool (Early Access) in Lightroom Classic - Quick Tip Did you know that the new Generative Remove, powered by Adobe Firefly, lets you quickly and easily remove unwanted objects from an image? Also, with the Lightroom Classic version (v13.3), the Heal tool has been renamed to Remove. Learn morehere. HDR in Lightroom Classic: Essential Tips During Adobe MAX'23, Lightroom Classic introduced HDR editing capabilities, granting you greater control over shadows and highlights

I’m experiencing a performance issue with Adobe Lightroom Classic. All of my photos (over 150k) are stored in network folders, organized by year, month, and date. When I try to view photos by faces, all the face boxes initially appear grey. After waiting 2 or 3 seconds, the boxes are filled with the corresponding faces. However, most of the time, when I scroll up or down, it takes more than 5 seconds for the boxes to load. Additionally, sometimes the faces aren’t displayed unless I hover the mouse over the grey boxes.Is there any way to improve performance in these cases?Thank you for your assistance.

I have a new mechanical HD (not SD). It came formatted as APFS. Will Lightroom work better if I reformat it as Mac OS Extended (Journaled)? That's how my previous HD was formatted. Or is another format prefereable?

I'm using LR 9.1 and I'm having a problem. LR takes up my entire screen and I can't adjust the size Also, my other icons don't appear on the botton of the screen. Photoshop works fine. I can adjust that screen and my other program icons are on the bottom of the screen.Is this somnething I caused?Thankyou for any help...  

I wanted to add to the number of posts about the catalog update causing LRC to crawl and make it basically unusable from a work standpoint.    Basically any button or mouse click within the active screen (minus the top menus) has a delayed response.   Right click on an image, menu pop up delayed.. in some cases minutes before it pops up Rating, as I rate photos the star is not displayed like usual.. in some cases take minutes Quick edits in the library module, same as above Sync edits, same as above   Pretty much everything is crawling.    With cloud sync on I can see LRC is running about 15%-20%. When I pause it it stops the behind the scenes running and it gets a little more responsive but still delayed.    I re-synced my LR collections and they all uploaded but the issue remains.. LRC shows it is always syncing 2 or so photos constantly.    I let it run multiple times over night, no fix.   I upgraded from 13.3   Made sure m

I updated the other day, and moving from one picture to the next is unbelievably slow. Takes a good 20+ seconds. The catalog is no bigger than my usual and very little editing. I tried optimizing the catalog, that makes no difference. Anyone else have the problem or found a fix? Apple M1 Pro, macOS 13.5, 32 GB RAM

I followed the tips on adobe to improve performace, and I work off an external hard drive.  The lag is still horrible.  Any tips?  I have an iMac with M1 chip,  16BG, OS 14.6.1.  my external hardive is a WD with 4TB of space thats 50% full....

Hi,I have 490 images and would like to copy "development settings" and apply it to all the photos that would include "spot removal."  Is this option no longer available when I paste "development settings" in the check box menu?LrC (PC version)Thanks!

I need a little help. I just switched to a Canon R5 from a Canon 5Dsr. I am using a Canon 16-35 EF L f4 lens on both bodies. When I go into Lightroom Classic to cull images from card after shooting on the R5, the images are smaller. When I click on an image to view focus I expect it to go to 1:1 and zoom in but instead it zooms out. I also notice that the magnifying glass has a minus symbol and not a plus. Is there any way to reverse this? I want 1:1 to zoom in not out.This does not happen with the 5Dsr images. I actually used the same card in both cameras with taking the same exact image and loaded them into Lightroom classic and the 5Dsr image starts normal and goes to 100% and the image looks great but the exact R5 image gets smaller when I click on it and looks quite bad. The magnifying glass on the 5Dsr image has a plus symbol in it, but the R5 image has a minus symbol in it.I have not changed one setting, only started to import images from the R5 now. Not sure if I'm su

Using just LrC today on my macbook, I moved about 150 recent photos into different collections and deleted some to tidy up a bit. A couple hours later, one of the photos is stuck in the "uploading" sync type as per the sync status below:In the LrSyncDiagnostic/lrsync_log.html :: Binary Uploader section I see (2) entries related to IMG_2390 as below. Any tips on what I should do next to correct this issue with the sync engine? I'm curious what the binaryType==xmp_develop is. I believe *.XMP files were used years ago to save changes in the same directory as the photo, but I don't see *.XMP files in the local folder when IMG_2390 is. 7: _id: 315a7eec1a084d6dadf8eeb4f404d266 binaryType: xmp_develop captureDate: 2024-08-19T07:16:38-07:00 fileName: IMG_2309.jpg fileSize: 4682 isReadyToUpload: 0 typeSubtype: asset/image 8: _id: 315a7eec1a084d6dadf8eeb4f404d266 binaryType: proxy captureDate: 2024-08-19T07:16:38-07:00 fileName: IMG_2309.jpg fileSize: 817792 isReadyToUpload: 0 typeSubtype:

All my images are being corrupted and ruined by Lightroom when they are imported.  They are fine when opened in Photoshop but when I import them to Lightroom they are being completely ruined. If I scroll it starts doing this to all my images. Totally corrupts them. These are Cannon Cr2 raw files.   Moved from Lightroom CC — The cloud-based photo service​ to Lightroom Classic CC — The desktop-focused app​

Hello  I had lots of problem in the new version with my existing library lots of photos where missing after the upgrade , I'm on Mac what could be the cause ? secon i see that the sliders are  straight in the middle , compare to former version  silders were all over the place without any edit , I'm using Nikon Z6II , is ther a new interpretation of the NEF files? Addition to this concerning raws , with Nikon we can create and use custom picture contols , wich are settings kind of profiles .  Why are these overwritten by Lr now ? It was not the case on previous version , or perhaps i did not see it well. In my case custom curve  and saturation adjustment in camera .it's visible in the file preview in LR, it's reflected by the Nikon software also, but as soon as I display it or want to edit , it's replaced by something else . What can be done ? can NCP file be added somewhere as preset ?

I am trying to edit an existing rename template for use in Lightroom in order to rename images as they are imported.  I am using the Library>Rename Photos dialogue to do this.  Once a pre-existing rename template is selected, I try to edit it and save as new template.  However, once I click into the text field and try to add text, the dialogue box closes unexpectedly allowing no changes to be made or saved.  Recently updated to MacOS15.0 Lightroom version 13.5.1

Can you add more than 2 external development programs in Lightroom Classic. I have Photoshop and Topaz Photo AI listed, but I used to have in addition Luminar Neo as well. Now it seems limited to only 2 programs......Anyone kows how to add more?

In March I got a new computer.  All files were located on my NAS so the installation of LightroomCC and transfer of the catalog went very smoothly.  I've alwasy imported my photos to the NAS with path NAS\Photos\Year\Month.  I've noticed now in the folders section when looking at  the library, I now have the NAS\Photos folder listed twice.  The second one starts in April of this year which is when I got the new computer.  How do I get rid of this second listing and get the April - all future years and months to display under the folder all other photos are in?  See attached picture.   

I have been making books for many years using the LRC Book Module with a great deal of success.  A few days ago I wanted to update a previous book I made with some additional photos and text so I opened this file and transfered some additional photos to my collection.  I then made various changes in layout, added photos and changed text.  We then closed the program and backed it up as I needed to make additional changes at a later date. When I went back, looking at the Grid view, and tried to open this book is seemed as if all of the text was populated but only a few of the photos appeared.  Then the program seemed to have gotten hung up and eventually stopped loading.  I have closed LR and turned the computer on and off all with no sucess.  Now I cannot get to my book and need some guidence in what to do. 

In my LR classic catalog (50000 items), I have synced 77000 to the LR cloud to edit with the new versions on the go. Recently the sync got extermely slow and I cannot figure out why. I can observe progress in syncing but it is unbearably slow, also LR classic gets extremely slow to use at the same time.Can anyone advise me where I can find any logs on the sync progress and LR classic itself to see myself where the problem lies?Thanks in advance.Adrian

Version 13.5.1. To compare severals images in comparison mode i select these images in library and press N for comparison mode. New bug: When rating one image with a number or a color, the same number or color is applied to all pictures in the comparison. Now it is impossible to apply different numbers or colors to the images in the comparison. 

Hello, I have one LR catalog (on external SSD drive) and my original images are on a hard drive. LR told me that there was a fault in my catalog, closed it and repaired it when I opened it again. Afterwards my smartpreviews and edit history was not available anymore whe I opened the LR catalog. ps: I use the smart previews so I can edit on different computers

After I export an image from Lightroom, Topaz launches itself?Even if I did not use Topaz on that image.How do I stop this automatic start by Topaz Photo AI? Any help greatly appreciated.

I'm getting ready to pull the trigger on a new computer build for LRc and photoshop, running normal MS apps too.  A vendor I do buisness with is recommending the new AMD Ryzen 7-9700X specs are below.  Im also going to get a graphics card strickly for monitor support not gaming with Nivida 12gb DDR6.  Installing Samsung Pro990 SSD's: 8 core Granite Ridge L2 8MB cche, L3 32 MB cache, 65 w power consumption, operation Frequency 3.8 Ghz, turbo speed 5.50 GHz, 16 processing threads, 64 bit.I would like opinion before I do. ThanksMike

I have a Dell T3500 Workstation with an Nvidia Quadro 2000 graphics card and 24GB RAM, running Windows 10 pro x64 on a Crucial MX500 SSD. I have installed all the latest firmware and hardware/software updates I could find for Windows, Direct X and my Quadro GFX card. I installed LR CC 13.5.1 and it does run but I do get a warning message at startup stating my system is now unsupported. When I go into this version's performance page, the choice to use my Nvidia card is greyed-out.I'm not expecting miracles but I do want to maximise the performance of my Lightroom rig by running the absolutely last version of LR CC that would have supported my PC and which allows me to use my GFX card's resources.