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How do I migrate collections from an old catalog to a new one?The old one was corrupt and slow so I had to start a new one from scratch.  How do I export the collections from my old catalog and import into my new one?The old one will open but after a while it slows down and hangs due to the corruption issues.

Lightroom Classic 14.5.1 [202508231203-c2638d01] on macOS 15.6.1 (Sequoia), MacBook Pro 16" (M3 Pro).As of yesterday, Lightroom Classic’s Import tool cannot see or import any photos anywhere on my Mac. The main Library module works fine — I can view and edit photos that are already in my catalog — but the Import grid is always blank no matter what source I select (camera, SD card, or folders on disk).Details:Worked normally 3 days ago: successfully imported RAF+JPG from my Fuji X100VI.Yesterday: Import grid completely blank when pointing to the camera, SD card, or any folder.Even when I point Import to ~/Pictures or to the Lightroom Classic library folder itself, grid remains blank.Finder and Preview both open JPG and RAF files without issue.Lightroom Library module still functions: I can browse, edit, and export existing photos. Only Import is broken.Tried with a new catalog → same result.Tried with copied JPGs in a new folder on disk → still blank grid.Tried dragging a JPG into the L

I am using LR6 on a win10 PC.  Yesterday I started to have this problem of LR constantly having 2 images selected in library grid view.  If I switch to diffent folder the first 2 images get selected. No matter what I do there are always 2 files selected.  I have tried rebooting, restarting LR, all the ways of deselecting etc.  I just can't get it to select a single file.  Is LR stuck in a mode I am not aware of or what?

Since today LR selects sometimes 2 photo's (not in compare mode).1 photo with a white and  1 with a black mark in the upper right corner.Due to this problem it's no longer possible to choose new photo's with the cursor keys. It's only switching between the 2 selected photo's.  

I'm not sure if this qualifies as a bug, but I just noticed that if I take a picture using Highlight-weighted metering, the metadata-field in Lightroom Classic is empty.If I take pictures using one of the other metering modes (Matrix metering, Center-weighted metering or Spot metering) the metadata is displayed correcty.I am using a Nikon Z6III, Firmware 2.00 an Lightroom Classic 15.0, Camera Raw 18.0

I'm about to lose my freaking mind.  LRC forced me to upgrade my catalog, now I can't re-open my old one.  Do not have access to any of my work.  Please advise ASAP.  TIA

I've recently started shooting video in Nikon's N-RAW format, which also creates an MP4 file as a preview.  I've been experimenting with using LRC as my asset management even for video since I'm heavily invested in it for managing my stills, and I'm often shooting both stills and video so keeping them together in the same collection is helpful.  Since LRC doesn't really understand NEV files, my plan was to manage the MP4 files in LRC and use some shell scripts to move things where their corresponding MP4 files ended up.  However I accidentally discovered that Lightroom was marking my NEV files as sidecar files, so if I moved the MP4 file, it moved the NEV file with it.  This was awesome and just what I wanted, and made my life easier.  Then all of a sudden it stopped working.  I didn't update LRC (that I can remember) nor did I change my workflow (that I can think of).   Now it seems to just never work, and googling seems to indicate it

I'm working with Lightroom Classic and I synchronize some collections with the cloud. Everything works fine, I can access these cloud based photos using a browser. Now I would like to access these cloud photos using the Lightroom API. I can successfully authorize/login using OAuth2 and get an access token, but the catalog request (https://lr.adobe.io/v2/catalog) always returns error 404.What is the problem? Does the Lightroom API not work with Lightroom Classic synchronized collections? Do I need the Lightroom Cloud version?Thanks for help.Kurt

I am trying to create a Slideshow in Lightroom Classic.  I noticed the Export Video, Preview and Play buttons were not active.  After a search, others recommended uninstalling LRC and reinstalling.  Now when I start up the program, I receive the folloiwng message"Dynamic Link Media Server failed to launchSlideshow playback is not possible due to an error. Please try relaunching the app. If the problem persists, you may want to re-install Lightroom." I cannot find any recent posts on how to solve this issue.  Any suggestions?   System Info:Lightroom Classic version: 14.0.1 [ 202410161356-30922cfc ]License: Creative CloudLanguage setting: enOperating system: Windows 10 - Business EditionVersion: 10.0.19045Application architecture: x64System architecture: x64Logical processor count: 4Processor speed: 3.3GHzSqLite Version: 3.36.0CPU Utilisation: 1.0%Power Source: Plugged InBuilt-in memory: 16331.5 MBDedicated GPU memory used by Lightroom: 23.2MB / 20

I have Lightroom classic and running most recent version of Catalina.  My drag and drop dragging photos into collections is not working.  I know it's not the computer because I can drag things around on my desktop.  I want to organize photos into collections and I cannot get anything to drag - whether a single photo or several at a time.  

Bonjour, J'utilise Lightroom Classic version 15.0 sur un Macbook pro 16 pouces 2021 tournant sous Sequoia 15.6.  Dans le module impression de Lightroom, l'aperçu ne fonctionne plus : impossible d'obtenir une visualisation de ma photo mise en page en fonction des paramètres définis avant impression.  Quelqu'un a-t-il rencontré ce problème?  J'ai désinstallé puis réinstallé Lightroom, sans résultat.  J'ai effacé mes préférences, sans résultat.

Hello, I am using Lightroom Classic on Mac OS 26.0.1. I have photos that are part of a cloud-synced collection and a local collection. Whenever I undo the action of deleting a photo, I end up with a syncing loop that does not resolve the cloud-based collection. So to clarify, photos are put back into their local collection but not restored to the cloud-based collection. I can restore those photos to the cloud-based collection easily if I go to ligthroom.com. However, Lightroom Classic still will not resolve its sync activity issue, which becomes a nuisance as it prevents me from determining a newly synced collection's status. Any suggestions? Maybe its MacOS app cache issue?   Thanks, Eyad    

Hey allemaal!  Als ik lightroom classic wil openen krijg ik de melding dat de catalogus is beschadigd en de reperatie daarvan even kan duren, Na die melding sluit het zich weer en gebeurt er niks... Ik heb al geprobeerd om de app te verwijderen en weer te instaleren maar dat lukt niet omwillen van dat lightroom nog steeds 'open staat of in gebruik is'  Weet iemand hoe ik dit probleem kan oplossen? 

Hi guysI use 2x Macs, syncing to the exact same Synology Drive folder on my NAS. This is about having the same Lighteoom catalogue available on both Macs. I only use Lightroom on one mac at a time. Is this good practice or advised against? So each mac has Synology Drive client installed, syncing to the exact same folder on my NAS. That will be 3x copies of the same folder / lightroom catalogue. 1, Mac12, Mac23, NAS Home DriveEach Mac to sync to the same Home Drive.  Do you reccomend this practice of syncing a catalogue and use one catalogue on 2x computers?

I hesitated to report this because I thought we'd see an update out shortly after Tahoe and i'd wait and see if that addressed it. I've gone through a few MacOS updates and this hasn't changed anything. Yes, i understand a beta version of MacOS isn't supported but still wanted to throw this out there for awareness. MacOS Tahoe (26.1 beta) with Lightroom Classic 14.5.1. Problem is the app window seems to somehow end up moving itself to be positioned under the top Apple menubar. I can go to Window->Fill and it'll move it back into place. But it doesn't stay here, it'll eventually move back up where I can't see the top of the Lightroom window. If the window is not already maximized, i'm unable to double click the top of the window to maximize it. In fact, I can't drag the window in or out at all to resize it either. Lastly, the window somehow randomly moves to my second screen at times. 

I mistakenly identified the wrong person.  So now there are 20+ photos with the wrong name.   This is showing up in the "confirmed" section.  How do I remove the name from this group of photos?  I was hoping that I could drag all these photos from "confirmed" to "similar," but that does not work.

I am getting the attached internal error upon startup of Lightroom every time.  I believe this started occurring after I upgraded to 13.0 however I also upgraded my OS to Sonoma 14.1.1 about the same time. After hitting okay, I am able to import, edit, export, etc with no noticable issues. The one thing I am seeing though is Gallery Synnchornization is stuck in a starting state. I'm on a Macbook pro M1 w/16GB of memory. Anyone see this or have suggestions? Thanks in advance for any info you can share.  

Desde Lightroom 15, al guardar metadatos en ficheros jpg me crea un archivo sidecar ACR, (no XMP).Mi flujo es: importo en lightroom, revelo en lightroom, exporto a jpg, los jpg los ubico en el mapa y pongo titulos, copyright y otros metadatos, pongo palabras clave, y hago CTRL-S para grabar los metadatos en el fichero jpg, y en este momento me crea el fichero ACR.Cada vez que hago un CTRL-S, me crea el fichero otra vez. ¿Es normal?

Help. After updating to ver. 15, lost settings to automatically export metadata w/ file being exported/opened in Photoshop for final polish.  I'm a newbie; I don't how to restore that functionality.

Hello! I have been using Lightroom for a couple months now (my subscription covers Lightroom classic, desktop, and mobile) and recently all of my photos in Lightroom have become pixelated. This pixelation occurred seemingly at random, and happened to all photos I have in Lightroom - it had never been an issue before and I adjusted no settings around the time this began. It makes the photos more difficult to edit, as I typically zoom in quite far to remove small background objects, and the pixelation best be seen once you have zoomed in. The problem goes beyond editing, however, as my photos save with this pixelation as well. This is happening on all versions of Lightroom I use (classic, desktop, and mobile). I will attach examples photos to this post... Here is the first photo, saved to my device in February, before the pixelation happened. This is how my photos used to look when editing them as well, even while zooming in as far as possible:The second photo is anot

Can you apply real thermal imaging on existing digital photos to find out how hot is an item from digital photo?

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Lightroom Classic 15.0 after updating, on Windows 11 latest all.   When using the remove tool, Lightroom adds a pin to show the location. A shortcut for deleting multiple remove spots was to hold down the ALT key and then circle the spots, which removed them. That no longer works in 15.0. It appears to be working normally in Camera Raw. 

Hello, I have been facing a problem regarding my presets not appearing in my profile in lightroom classic v15. (Macbook)  I have tryied multiple times to deselect the ""Store presets with this catalog" and "show partially compatible develop presets" and is still not working.I have also tryied applying them directly in the folder "User presets" inside the "developed presets", and they still don't appear in my list of presets. They also don't appear in "profile" while being in developed mode.I am using raw files and the presets are XMP from authentic love presets. Every time I try to import them again it says the have already been imported but I just can't find them anywhere. I have been using these presets in lightroom classiv v13 and it worked perfectly. Since I have updated to v15, I can't find them anymore.Please, if you had the same problem and know how to fix it, please help. Thank you!   

Issue with Adobe Lightroom Classic.Latest Mac OS InstalledLatest update on Lightroom ClassicPhotos are stored on an external SSD Drive formatted ExtaFat.Lightroom has full disk access in Permissions.Lightroom is added to Permissions for full access. Issue when in Adobe Lightroom Classic and in the Library Grid View and selecting an image, then select delete the image, then select from the drive, the warning dialog box “Delete Permanently” comes up and I select the button Permanently  Delete Files.  At this point Lightroom goes Black and then an error Dialog Box “An internal error has occurred.  ?:0 attempt to index a nil value.  When I cancel the error occurs The file named “untitled-215.ORF” could not be moved to the Trash folder. When the error occurs the image is not erased from the SSD drive. But, when I go through Finder I am able to erase an image on the SSD drive, then the image shows in the desktop waste basket, and I can permanently dele