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Hello! My Lightroom catalog is a hot mess, and I'm hoping someone can guide me through fixing it.  I've used Lightroom for many years, and my catalog holds over 45,000 raw photo files. I used to switch between editing on two different Macs, so I used this Dropbox storage method successfully for years—https://medium.com/t-brian-jones-fine-art-photography/using-lightroom-cc-classic-with-dropbox-for-a-great-cloud-experience-a428bd0f7bdd Now, my library is a disaster. I need to fix it and then transfer it all to my new MacBook Pro, which will be my only computer moving forward. If I must use an external hard drive rather than Dropbox for storage, so be it.  In my Lightroom, I can access 7,615 synced photographs just fine. However, older photos (the bulk of my library) all appear gray with an exclamation point in the corner. When I click on the exclamation point, I receive the following warning: Lightroom has encountered problems reading this photo. You will not be

Bonjour, J'utilise plusieurs catalogue pour différencier mes catégories de photos (Surf, Mariage, Shooting) et des fois ça m'arrive de devoir importer des photos à partir d'un autre catalogue. Mais depuis quelques temps quans je veux faire cette option, j'ai des problèmes. 1. La fenêtre qui s'ouvre n'est pas du tout pratique car on ne voit pas le chemin entier des dossiers depuis lesquels on veut importer les photos et il ne sont pas classés dans l'ordre de mon DD. 2. Je ne peux même plus avoir les aperçus des photos que je veux importer quand je clique sur un dossier3. J'ai carrément des dossiers qui n'apparaissent pas alors qu'ils sont bien dans le catalogue en question...SI vous avez des idées je suis preneur svp. Car du coup je suis obligé de devoir re importer les photos de mon DD au catalogue voulu, sans pouvoir passer par cette option, et donc de devoir refaire toute le post traitement déjà fait sur les photos que je veux changer de catalogue. Merci &#12

Hi, some of the folders in my external HD do not show in LR classic. I go to the HD and they are all there, but the folders dont show in the Library navigator. No idea on why. Its not the "I have a photos showing missing in grid" that needs to be linked. Its just not showing entire folders in menu.  Have looked a a bunch of threads on here., dont see the answer.  Any thoughts on what I am doing wrong? 

Hello! I tried already to disable the GPU in preferences, worked for 30 minutes, now it is not working again. Tried restarting, turning off, all the basics. Anybody else had this problem recently? What can I do to make it work? I have mac m1 pro and the newest version of LR. 

Lightroom Version Number   6.1.4 Operating System    Windows 102 questions ...I have a perpetual license for 6.1.4 on W10 PC I have a new W11 PC and in the process of reinstalling all my appsWhere can I find my license key on my installed ver ? 2nd QDoes anyone host a copy of 6.1.4 install file anywhere?

Not specifically LR, but as my DNG photo are all for LR, there may be someone here who knows how to resolve the problem.Windows 10 and LR Lightroom version: 6.14 [ 1149743 ] If I go to a Windows 10 folder - all of the jpeg files with have a thumbnail  (as do png, tiff etc)Very few DNG files will have a thumbnail (usually none)I have installed Microsoft raw image Extension .... v3 no differenceHave followed the steps to kill thumbnail cache, delete it, and restart explorer ... all jpeg thumbnails rebuild (slowly) but not DNG.Have also followed the tip to uncheck 'always shows icons, never thumbnails'The advice is to click on teh top button 'apply to folders'  but I can't do that as that is greyed out.  (pic attached)   

This is such an elementary question but.... Can I filter ONLY color images? And/or filter ONLY black-and-white images that I've edited? Tp be clear, not talking about color "labels" like applying the red filter etc. My own images that I've left color, versus images that I've added a black and white edit to.I have a client looking to order a round up of ONLY the color images I provided them, but there are thousands of images - so I'm hoping there's a way to filter OUT any black and white treated images that I've edited from my catalogue, to view only my color images. 

Why are there now hundreds of thousands more files in my preview folder? Some (but not all?) preview files (.lrprev) have associated files that seem to be different sizes of previews. They haven't been there in the past. What has changed? Bob Frost

Hello, I have come back from vacation and want to edit my photos in LcR. It no longer starts up . All I see is a blue wheel turning and it stops after a few seconds. I have version 13.5.1 What should I do? Can anyone help me.

 After I sync a Collection, when I click Make Public (so that I can then view them on the web and share the photos with others), it scrolls forever without actually providing a link. Until very recently, I had never had this issue. I'm not doing anything differently than I did before, so I just don't know what is causing this problem.   [Moved from ‘Bugs’ to ‘Discussions’ by moderator, according to forum rules. A ‘bug’ is not just another word for any problem with software!]

Olá, estou tentando usar a seguinte configuração na hora de exportar as fotos do catalogo... em LOCAL DA EXPORTAÇÃO está com as seguintes configurações: Exportar para: Mesma pasta da foto originalArquivos existentes: sobrescrever SEM AVISARPorém ele não faz o que pedi para fazer... salvar o arquivo na mesma pasta e sobrescrever ele...Ele dá um erro falando que o destino da foto substituiria a foto existente.....Mas não foi exatamente isso que pedi para fazer? Na mesma pasta da foto original e sobrescrever sem avisar.   Porque preciso fazer isso?... tenho que importar as fotos de produtos para um novo sistema e neste sistema para que funcione a importação das fotos eu precisei criar uma pasta onde o nome da pasta é o ID do produto. e todas as fotos já estão organizadas assim, apenas gostaria de tratar a qualidade delas que no momento está muito alta.   {Moved from Lightroom Cloud to Lightroom Classic Forum by Moderator} 

Using LR (13.5.2) and PS (25.12.0) WIN11. When "save a copy" back to LR the images do not update. Yet, if I look in Explorer, or  open that image again in PS, updates are there.  I have reset LR several times, and it does not help.  This will happen to any image I try it on, so it is not just one image.  Ideas? Thanks.  

How to speed up AI noise reduction in Lightroom Classic?

Today, when I opened Lightroom Classic, I noticed that all the thumbnails were missing. Anytime I click on a folder, the thumbnails are blank, and Lightroom begins rebuilding only the thumbnails visible on the screen. As I scroll down, new blank thumbnails appear, and Lightroom starts rebuilding those as well. The bigger issue, however, is that during the thumbnail rebuilding process, my CPU temperatures soar. They hover around 80°C, with spikes reaching as high as 95°C. This has been happening for a while, but I used to only notice it with new photos, so I tolerated it. Now, even just scrolling (through folders where thumbnails were not yet rebuilt) causes the CPU to overheat, which is becoming a serious problem. I have like 14000 photos, so... yeah. My main question is: Is this normal?Additionally, what could be causing all the thumbnails to disappear, and what can I do to bring the CPU temperatures down when Lightroom is rebuilding the thumbnails? I've already set JPEG previews

Hi all. When exporting from Lightroom Classic, or using the "edit in" function and editing in Photoshop 2022, the colors in my image are completely different. I have tried updating my graphics drivers. My display calibration is set to sRGB - but I do not think this is the issue as they are different even between applications. I have not tried uninstalling and reinstalling. Version numbers are at the bottom of this post. I've been struggling trying to find a solution for about 2 hours now and would appreciate any and all help as to why this would be happening. Photoshop Color Settings Lightroom External Editing & Export settings  Example below. Left is lightroom(correct) right is photoshop(wrong) You can even see some weird red color artifacting on the hood in the right image. Lightroom Classic version: 11.0.1 [ 202111111509-eae8952e ]License: Creative CloudLanguage setting: enOperating system: Windows 10 - Home Premium EditionVersion: 10.0.19044&n

Hola Comunidad, uso Lightroom Classic hace un tiempo y hace poco cambie mi laptop. Antes tenía un HP con Windows 10 el cual batallaba mucho para poder editar por lo viejo que era, ahora tengo un laptop más potente que corre todo super bien. Pero, al momento de utilizar la opción capturas conectadas al equipo me reconoce la cámara puedo de hecho visualizar y cambiar los parámetros de la cámara desde el laptop. El problema es cuando tomo la fotografía la cámara hace su trabajo (se escucha el obturador tomando la fotografía) pero lightroom no muestra la imagen capturada, es como si no la sacara. cabe mencionar que utilizo la misma cámara (Canon R10) y mismo cable tipo c para conectar la cámara al laptop. No hay tampoco mensajes de erroresFavor su ayuda! 

I've started having issues with LR 13.5.1 (or just before). When I change screens or focus away from LR to another app or file on the desktop, when I return to LR, it has a scrim/screen over the image and the program is hung up, with the Windows scrolling wheel showing. I have waited up to an hour and it never reloads properly. This will happen with a small catalog of a few hundred and with large ones with thousands of images. It can also happen when I change between work areas of LR itself.  I have checked the Task Manager, and LR is using maybe 50 - 60 % of CPU and around 10 - 20 GB (of 128 GB) RAM. The only way out of this is to crtl-alt-del to Task Manager and kill the instance. I've been using the same machine for almost four years (AMD Rythen Threadripper 3960x 24-core) under Win 10 and moved to Win 11 a few months ago, but this problem started only a few days ago.  No new plug-ins or changes to settings. Any suggestions would be greatly apprecaited (I use LR about

In 13.1 when you attempt to import from a Canon camera. The import button is flashing and it is updating the photo status at the bottom left corner between zero and 1 image. One square box flashing in the main grid area. Eventually, it displays properly. I have several existing projects on the card that I haven't deleted. 1. Just start importing  Second camera, it worked as expected. 13.1macOS 13.6.3 

I have been experiencing this problem for a while, probably years. I wasn't very seriously processing  a lot of photos until now, and I just lived with this problem. But now that I am, I can't really tolerate the issue anymore.   The problem is that after some apparently random amount of time, from hours, to days, to even weeks, LRc becomes incredibly slow. It does not matter if I close and restart LRc. It remains very slow.   I ran into the issue again yesterday. It would take about 5 seconds to open an image when double clicking on it, 3 seconds to scroll down one line in grid mode, and 13 seconds from the time I click Edit / Preferences, and when the dialog actually shows up.   I created a brand new, empty catalog, and restarted LRc. The Edit / Preferences taking 13 seconds issue remained.   Finally, I rebooted the machine , and all the performance issues disappeared.   I'm really keen to finding out what is causing this. Other Windows applications are

I've been loving the Generative Remove feature but since the past couple days but it and all other spot remove features are completely broken for me.  I edit an image as always, using the Remove tools.  It shows the edits in the edit history, but there is no visible effect on the image. Things I've tried (really, everything I can think of):With and without Generative AI checkedWith Gen AI, clicking Refresh and changing VariationsWith and without Object AwareUsing the Heal, Stamp and Remove modesRestarting LRDisabling GPUPurging caches (in Performance settings)Optimizing catalogExporting the image (exported file appears identical to the LR preview)Switching between Develop and Loupe viewsRendering 1:1 previewsPurging Smart PreviewsBuilding Smart Previews then checking the Use Smart Previews instead of Originals for editingRewinding and fast-forwarding edit historyClicking "Reset" in the Remove tool panel and starting overUsing Remove before or after AI Lens Blur All

Help, please!  Trying to open a Lightroom catalog and instead of offering and updated version to 13 or whatever the current preferred version is to open, the folder is cycling new -shm, -wal, and lock files. The -shm and -wal files disappear and reappear like the folder is attempting new ones. I attempted deleting just the lock file and closing everything and restarting, but it cycles the same. The Lightroom program never opens and it never offers the option to reformat to the new version #.   

Hi there,   I've been having this problem for about half a year now. I thought it would get fixed in the recent 13.2 LRC update, but that wasn't the case.   So what happens is that my RAM fills up when LRC is idling for some time. I work on LRC then move to another task, put the iMac in sleep mode, wake it up again the next day and at some point memory usage goes from around 7 GB to 150 GB (!).   Looks like a memory leak to me. Pls Adobe, fix this.   Running Mac OS 14.3.1.   Thanks

When publishing 2,000 photos with the zenfolio publishing services. It will publish 10 photos over to the zenfolio gallery and then I will be prompted with "Can't update this collection. Could not connect Zenfolio. Please check your internet connection". My computer is fully connectred to the internet and my lightroom classic is running the most updated version. I have reset the app, and I've cleared my brower cache. How do I fix this. 

My last import would not build the preview of the raw files. I'm using mac OS High Sierra 10.13.6, and Lightroom classic 9.1 release. I don't think I can update it currently on this operating system. Is this due to the older version, or is there a fix for this?  The raw files I import are from Capture one- IIQ files. I don't adjust the raw files in LR, I just import them for archiving with the high res tifs. Thanks for the help. 

When setting the parameter indicating Standard Preview Generation during the Import dialog, those previews are, predictably, generated during the import process.  The problem - which seems to have always been present - is that when I choose to cancel the operation of generating Standard Previews (due to high processor resources), but continue to import my images, canceling only registers for a couple of minutes, then restarts.  This has always felt a bit annoying tbh. It would be great to see canceling the operation require just one click.