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I'm having some issues with my exported photos not holding the edits I made in lightroom. Ive been doing some research online but so far, I've had no luck in figuring things out :/. Would greatly appreciate any insight that could be provided here as to what might be the problem.  In one of the pictures below you can see the photo is very vibrant and colorful and the other one is dull and bland.  The colorful and vibrant photo is what I see in lightroom before I export, and the bland and dull photo is what I see after I export.Thanks, in advanced!  

My Lightroom Classic just updated to the latest version (13.0).  When I exit, rather than the option of delaying writing XMP, it now says I should wait until it completes. The first time, I let it complete in case the delay was due to the update.  I didn't time it, but it took several minutes.  I went back in, and made minor edits to two images and then exited.  It's been over 5 minutes, and it's only up to 14%. Why has the message changed to say you should wait?  Why is it taking so long?

I even went back and looked at a JPG I exported out of Lightroom earlier this year and that image had a hefty resolution of 5000x4000. No problems there! I’m not sure what happened! help!

click on import photos and nothing happens .On iMac latest software

Once a photo is loaded from my library, after hitting develop, pictures have color splotches on them that makes editing them impossible. This seems to have started on or about 7/20/26.Original:In Develop mode without starting any editing (note: I have restarted my computer since the issue started): 

I encounter an issue with the latest update (V11) on shortcuts to assign a color label (6,7,8,9).Those shortcuts won't anymore assign a color label, it will now only remove the color label. The shortcut "Assign a color label and go to next photo" (Shift+6 to 9) still work well as previously.Please fix this adobe, my culling speed depend on it. Thanks in advance,

·  Title: LrC 15.4.1 UI Issue:  Closing Remove Tool leaves gray panel area; fails to redraw Edit/Basic panels. ·  Product: Adobe Lightroom Classic v15.4.1 Release (Camera Raw 18.4) ·  OS: macOS 25.6.2 ·  Description: In the Develop module, using Solo Mode with the right panel visible, activating and then closing the Remove (spot removal) tool completely breaks the right panel interface. The panels vanish into a blank, dark empty column. Global panel keys (F8, Shift+Tab) and top menu toggles fail to restore it.  Workaround: Clicking the Edit icon (sliders) manually, or toggling Crop (R) or Masking (M) or Red Eye Removal icons on and off forces Lightroom to redraw the UI, successfully bringing the Basic and edit panels back.   Exiting the develop module to the Library module, (G or E) and then re-entering the Develop module (D) will also bring back the Basic and edit panels. ·  Camera model:  N/A ·  Steps to Reproduce:Open Lightroom Classic 15.4.1 in Develop module with Solo Mode active.

Hey,I’m stacking in PS from LRC, saving works fine, flagging, color label works fine. During the same session, these files disappear from LRC. They’re on the disk. I can’t import them, the import module won’t “see” them.

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Product: Adobe Lightroom ClassicUI language: Polish (Polski) — issue also affects English source copyOS: Windows 11Lightroom version:[paste from Help → System Info → Copy]Steps to reproduce:1. Library → select any photo → File → Export (Ctrl+Shift+E)2. File Settings → Image Format: JPEG3. Enable “Limit File Size To” → set to 5000 K4. Click ExportActual result:A dialog appears. In Polish UI the title is “Aktualizacja limitu rozmiaru pliku” and the message reads:“Jeśli obraz nie może osiągnąć limitu, zostanie on eksportowany do minimalnego możliwego rozmiaru pliku.”The English source text (approximate) is:“If the image cannot reach the limit, it will be exported to the minimum possible file size.”Problem:Both wordings are misleading. “Minimum possible file size” strongly suggests Lightroom will crush JPEG quality to the smallest file (e.g. tens of KB). That is alarming and contradicts what users expect from a paid subscription.What the message should describe is the opposite scenario: wh

Lightroom Classic version: 15.3.1Operating System: macOS 26.5.1Computer: MacBook Pro M1 Max, 64 GB RAMCameras affected: Canon R5 Mark II Canon R6 Mark II Description:AI Denoise suddenly stopped working during an editing session. It had been working earlier the same day and then began failing on every RAW file.The issue affects RAW files from both Canon cameras and occurs across different folders and catalogs.When I select Photo → Enhance → Denoise → Enhance, Lightroom either displays:"An unexpected error occurred while processing."or no Enhanced DNG is created.Troubleshooting already completed: Restarted Mac. Reinstalled Lightroom Classic. Cleared Camera Raw cache. Verified over 600 GB of free disk space. Tested multiple RAW files from different folders. Tested files from two different cameras. Catalog and RAW files are on an external drive. Lightroom edits, exports, and all other functions work normally. AI Denoise is the only feature that consistently fails. This ap

I moved a folder from one hard drive to another and Lightroom is throwing me in a loop. I’m at a loss, I don’t know what to do here! This makes zero sense I’m going in circles.   

As the title says the folder where my Lightroom catalog is stored only shows the folder 0 to 9 and A to F. In these folders there are seperate folders (like 0A2A). Is there a way I can rebuild/restore my catalog?  It is not showing any .lrcat / .lrdata files.

I am currently on LRC 14.4 and CR 17.4.  I have learned to work with the changes in the Denoise that got rid of the middleman DAT file and keeps the file naming of the original file.  I have learned to batch edit with pasting dev settings including denoise.  It has been ok. But now Adobe doesn't like that I'm running so far behind.    After having this version stable for several months, I am hesitant to upgrade.   Can anyone who has upgraded to the latest version give me any advice?  I only have a 1T harddrive, that I try to clean out by moving files to external SSDs as much as possible.  I am honestly scared to upgrade after seeing so many performance issues, etc from other posts.  I have 13th gen Intel(R), 32 DB RAM, and 8G Nvidia GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop GPU - ASUS TUF Gaming laptop Thoughts?  I can’t really afford a new laptop, so I am hoping to not have to do that again.  Right now, with 14.4, a single denoise takes about 4-8 seconds.

I use DJI drones, and their RAW format is DNG. Lightroom Classic is quite happy to accept these and successfully does an HDR merge on them. The output is once more DNG (or allegedly is).I use Topaz Photo to pre-process my images before doing most of my processing on Lightroom Classic. Topaz quite happily accepts DNG files straight from the drone. However, if I pass it a DNG that HDR Merge has generated, Topaz rejects the image as being an unsupported format.So it looks as if LRC is generating DNG files that do not quite meet Adobe’s own DNG specification in some way that neither Topaz or I understand.I use Windows 11 and the very latest LRC.  

Problem: LrC 15.4.1 - Receive “Lightroom has encountered an issue updating AI edits” & “unable to backup catalog error” after migrating catalog from Windows 10 to Windows 11.  =============== Background: Problems started when I moved LrC catalog/workflow from a windows 10 machine to a windows 11 machine. Backed up entire C drive from W10 PC to external hard drive (included the then-used LrC catalog). Signed out of all adobe apps on old machine before doing a “fresh”/”clean” install of Windows 11 to C drive. Kept all jpg/raw originals on F Drive, which on second catalog import attempt, had no issues on Windows 11.  Migration Attempt 1 (Failed, Abandoned): After Windows 11 install, and LrC install, tried to open old catalog from Windows 10 and could not get it to boot properly. Tried to copy the Catalog from old Windows 10 C drive (external) to new Windows 11 C drive (internal) --- Alt+Open LrC and selecting the copied old catalog led to: missing files, missing edit info, and AI Edit

When I start Denoise, instead of pop-u showing the progress the entire right side panel is grade out and a test says : An AI process is running on the photo. Editing is temporarily disabled.” Ok, There is a problem: A popup is the standard established way of visually indicate a process i progress. The ways this new bizarre way indicates the process is confusing. Sometimes the images flickers, making an optical indication I am Done , I click on something, but there is no response to anything because the process is in progress. Please stop the foolishness.  An example, a 45min running “dead process” on a 24 Mpix file: Even a sniping tool of Windows often hangs when Lightroom runs. The top apre aof the image shows a black background panel, which than disappears. and we cannot even make screens hot, because the entire windows hangs than hopelessly.  An example:Forever hanging, never finishing. A 20Mpix, small by present times. 

Lightroom Classic’s secondary display selection keeps switching from my preferred monitor to another connected monitor. This interrupts my editing workflow and forces me to manually reconfigure the setting.I use a three-monitor setup. Lightroom Classic runs on my left monitor, which is Windows display #1. My preferred secondary display is Windows display #2, the middle monitor. I use that screen to review crop changes and overall edits while working in the Develop module on monitor #1. However, Lightroom Classic randomly changes the secondary display to Windows display #3, and I have to go back into Preferences and set it again.This has been happening for years, and it occurs multiple times within an hour of editing. The repeated reconfiguration breaks my focus, and my current workaround is insufficient. I’m asking Adobe to confirm whether this is reproducible on their side.Steps to reproduce Open Lightroom Classic. Use a three-monitor setup. Set the secondary display to Windows di

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SummaryLightroom Classic’s built-in catalog backup takes approximately 14–16 minutes to create a 39.1 GiB ZIP containing 39.7 GiB of nearly incompressible .lrcat-data.I tested the same catalog with two local internal storage destinations: WD_BLACK SN850 1TB, PCIe 4.0 NVMe NAND SSD Intel Optane SSD 900P 280GB, PCIe 3.0 NVMe 3D XPoint Changing the destination from the SN850 to the Optane 900P reduced the duration by only 105 seconds, or 11.24%. The completed ZIP remained approximately 39.1 GiB.The main issue is that almost the entire backup consists of .lrcat-data that provides very little compression benefit.Actual resultsWD_BLACK SN850 destination Source catalog: D:\Lightroom\Lightroom Catalog.lrcat Backup destination: same physical WD_BLACK SN850 Completed ZIP: 39.112012 GiB Backup folder creation to ZIP last write: 15 minutes 34 seconds Intel Optane 900P destination Source catalog: same catalog on the WD_BLACK SN850 Backup destination: separate Intel Optane SSD 900P Compl

Boy, do I need help! I'm 87 years old. I'm loosing my ability to use Adobe products, but want desperately to complete uploading my You Tube channel and need to use Adobe. I live in Kalamazoo, MI. Will some one out there help me over this hump? 

Hi Adobe Support,Since updating to Lightroom Classic 15.4.1, a large number of my Develop presets have disappeared from the Presets panel.My systemLightroom Classic: 15.4.1 Camera Raw: 18.4 macOS: 26.5.2 iMac 2020 Same Lightroom catalog I've been using all year (2026.lrcat).The issueAfter updating Lightroom, I was away for a week. When I returned, many of my presets were missing. The preset files (.xmp) are still present in the correct Settings folder. If I try to import a missing preset, Lightroom reports "Already Imported", but the preset still does not appear in the Presets panel. Some presets from the same collection are visible, while many others are not.Troubleshooting already completedConfirmed I am opening the correct catalog. Created a brand new test catalog – the exact same presets are still missing. Verified the preset files exist in: Catalog Lightroom Settings folder. CameraRaw Settings folder. "Store presets with this catalog" has been tested. Checked Manage Presets – th

I recently updated Lightroom Classic and Photoshop 2026 (27.8) I have Windows 11, My lightroom edit in choice to PS will open photoshop, it informs me to PS2026 not installed, once it connects, then keeps asking me if I want the program to change setting, Then the actual image to edit does not transfer across to PS, I have deleted both apps and re-installed, same issue.

Lightroom Classic on Win 11, 32GB RAM and a hobby photographer.I see on my Catalogue I have been using LR since 2008. I mainly (±80%) shoot wildlife. Ever since then I have shot in RAW with my Canon cameras which saved photos as CR2. I've always imported them: Copy as DNG. I must have done a tutorial those days telling me to do it like this.I now also have a Nikons Coolpix P950 and shoot in RAW as well.What is the best/recommended way to import RAW photos so I can make fulle use of all AI and other presets? I only use LR Classic for photo editing.Thanks.