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I am using Lightroom Classic 13.3 and Windows 11. Let's say I convert a 22 MB raw file to lossy dng with Lightroom Classic using these settings:  • If compatibility is set to Camera Raw 15.3 or later, the resulting file will be around 5 MB and will not display the corresponding image thumbnail (just a generic icon) when viewed from Windows file explorer (tested both with Win11 and Win10). Also, it will not open in any image viewer. • If compatibility is set to any other previous version (14.0 or older), then the resulting file will be around 10 MB, it will display the corresponding image thumbnail in Windows file explorer and will open in any image viewer (which will show the embedded jpeg preview in full size). This was the normal result for years, up until some version between 12.0 and 13.0 when (apparently) something changed. I am not sure when this started happening exactly, but I think it was with some version between 12.0 and 13.0. I convert files to lossy dng

For some reason, I ended up with two different/separate catalogs that both include the same set of photos.   Therefore, some photos have edits in one catalog and other photos have edits in the second catalog. Is there anyway to combine the two catalogs without losing any edit information? Thanks for any help.

A few days ago I uninstalled LRC and upgraded to Lightroom. I was under the impression my catalog would not be touched (in fact I still see it in the folder). However, I am unable to upgrade or import the catalog into Lightroom. What can I do? I would nevec have upgraded if I knew I was going to lose my 5 year old catalog.

after i update to 13.3 lightroom cc , all my user presets are missing????????

Not able to acces the sorting panel  in the library module after upgradation to LRC 13.3 from which we were able to sort based on metadata . It was helpful in identifying high ISO to denoise

I want to export a LRC collection to a file. I do not see any way to do this. Any suggestions? Rich

Hi,as the topic says since I updated to LRc 13.x I faced several Issues (find my system info below from tge 12.2.1 version I now use).I start this topic refering to this one:https://community.adobe.com/t5/lightroom-classic-discussions/extremely-slow-hdr-photo-merge-process-since-the-last-update-to-version-13/m-p/14165741as my platform (Windows) is different to that of the original poster (Mac).The first issue with glitchy zoom on the second screen was resolved in the meantime and turned out to be an issue with the NVidia driver.But there are still some things which noticeably went worse in 13.x compared to 12.x:Adding pick flags is extremely unresponsive - I see the flag only when switching back and forth the modesSame goes for color labelsSame goes for stacking functionsPhoto merge is completely unuseable now as it takes forever to complete. The behaviour is that it starts merging (i.e. HDR with 3 images) then the progress bar jumps back and forth severeal times and then is stuck for

Hello I'm having issues with Lightroom classic. I am using tether capture to tether to my canon 5D mark 4. I am trying to use the auto import feature where once the photos are taken they get processed by light room, go into a "watched folder", and are then duplicated and moved into another folder/ destination of your choosing. The problem is when I take a photo its processed and goes to the watch folder. But for some reason the process where the photo is supposed to be duplicated and moved to another destination fails. please help

Liebe Community,   seit kurzem stürzt lightroom classic entweder ab (friert ein) oder es erscheinen blaue oder rote Fehlfarben. Aus meiner Sicht ist die Grafikarte in Ordnung, da andere grafiklastige Anwendungugen wie z.B. Photoshop, Capture one, Dxo oder auch Computerspiele einwandfrei ohne Fehler funktionieren.   Für eure Hilfe bin ich dankbar! Beste Grüße Günter  

Hello. I am using LrC 13.2 (I believe) on a Mac running Sonoma 14.4.1.I have many duplicate image files on my internal SSD and my external SSDs & HDDs which LrC uses. Does someone have a good 3rd party software program which can reliably identify duplicate image files which they might recommend to me?Thank you in advance for any help.Firislander.

LR 13.2 introduced many incorrectly spelled keyboard shortcuts displayed in Help, e.g. Ctrl + Tab instead of Control + Tab for Cycle Upright Mode in Windows / English, and Befehlstaste + Wahltaste + X instead of Befehl + Wahl + X for Open As Smart Object in German. The affected commands include Loupe - Locked, Cycle Upright Mode, Open As Smart Object, and Point Color Selector, with each language having at least one misspelling.The attached spreadsheet shows the complete list, with these columns: Currently Shown ShortcutShortcut That Should Be ShownCommand NameTranslatedStrings Key You can use the Any Shortcut plugin's Analyze command to find all such misspellings.  

Greetings, I'm using the latest version of Lightroom Classic, 13.2, on my Intel-based Mac Pro and MacBook Pro (running MacOS Sonoma 14.4.1).  Since last year, I've noticed an issue when importing the MacBook's Lightroom catalogue into the Mac Pro's.  After displaying the import dialogue and letting me choose the pictures, it says "Lightroom cannot import from this catalogue because of an unknown error."  See pictures attached. I've tried copying the laptop's catalogue onto the Mac Pro's desktop, and renaming it.  I've also tried ticking or unticking some options like "update metadata", etc.  Nothing works. Both catalogues pass the integrity check when I close Lightroom. Please help!  Thank you, Jf

Hello, all of the suddent when I try to import images from my hard drive or from a memory card, the "destination" is not even listed as an option.  I always import images onto my hard drive or external hard drive before editing.  Now I don't have the option. What am I doing wrong?  Screen shot included. Thanks!

I just upgraded LR Classic to version 13.3.  I am running Mac OS 14.5 (Sonoma).  LR now won't recognize my external drive where the photo files are stored.  I launch the external drive first and then open LR without effect.  The LR catalog is stored on my internal hard drive.  Any suggestions? Thanks.

Hello all,I updated Lightroom a few months ago to Classic CC and have been encountering issues with importing. Whenever I import a batch of photos from my memory card a preset is applied. I have never used import presets in the past so I have no idea where this preset came from. I have the 'Develop Settings' option in the 'Apply During Import' menu set to 'None' and the 'Import Preset' tab at the bottom-middle of the screen set to 'None' as well but whenever I import my photos they all have the same changes made to them once I open them up. Like I said earlier, I have never used import presets before so I have no idea where this is coming from. This is probably my 5th time using LR Classic CC and every time this has happened.Hope one of y'all can help. Thanks in advance!- Josey

Al abrir el catálogo da un error: "Lightroom no puede escribir en los siguientes directorios. Hasta que se solucione este problema, la sincronización con LR podría no funcionar correctamente: /Users" Parece que LR busca la carpeta "Users" en mi Mac y no la encuentra, puesto que al estar en español se llama "Usuarios".         {Moved from Lightroom Cloud to Lightroom Classic Forum by Moderator} 

Not a Lightroom specific issue, but wow was it bewildering when some random Windows 10 neurons all on their own decided to activate HDR Color on the HDMI port I use for my monitor. After a while I figured out what was going on. Just happy I wasn't stuck with it and didn't have to recalibrate the display in the middle of working on some photo sets.

Got this after upgrading to LRC 13.3. Is the catalog okay to use if I reverse the upgrade? How do I know why this happened so I can fix it? I am using macOS 13.5.2

Been setting up my new (used) computer. (2019 Retina iMac running Sonoma 14.5) An Apple guy helped me set up the old computer so everything didn't sync to the cloud, thereby preventing me from paying more for cloud storage, a revenue stream that lags just behind the iPhone on Apple's books. The new computer didn't benefit from whatever that guy did so, of course, my free storage was wiped out in a second and the ads to buy more space started appearing. I have only the smallest of needs for the iCloud; I certainly don't need to buy more space. "Documents" was the biggest villain so I stopped syncing that. Immediately, everything disappeared from my desktop, including my photos folder. No need to panic. I've been down this road before. Sure enough, everything from my desktop was now in the Finder. I moved everything back where it was and everything is working perfectly EXCEPT Lightroom which won't start but instead gives me a "an error prevented Lightroon Classic from opening t

I`d get spinning wheel when quitting LR ClassicActivity monitor says LR doesn´t respond (crash?) and use some CPU loadBut after 30 seconds the program finally quit Any ideas?Yes, I have reset prefs, optimised cat fileMac Sonoma, last LR 

It's not worth wasting time on 13.1, when it takes many seconds just to flag an image or when you leave the mask tool and it takes 10 seconds just for the show overlay red to go away you know they spent all their time on "cool" stuff and still don't know how to do QA, or product design. Save yourself the trouble and wait on this update. 

This couldn't have worst timing! I use JF Folder publisher on a daily basis. I am a volume photographer and I sort everyones pictures in their own folder tree divided into groups down to individuals. Yesterday while publishing it said I can no longer publish more than 10 and I need to upgrade the JP folder plugin. I did the upgrade but now I can't activate it. When I click on the link it just says NOT FOUND.  Does anyone know of an alternative? I NEED to be able to export the folder structure. I tried doing it the old fashion way by exporting from Lightroom and organizing them manually. It added over two hours of work! I can't do that every day. I barely see my family as it is. And Why is this not a base feature in Lightroom already? Can we upvote this feature please?  

When browsing through photos in the Library module, I'm dealing with two VERY major delays. I've just updated to version v13.3 today, and I don't feel like I've experienced delays like these to this extent in the previous version of Lightroom.  - When updating 'Flag as pick / Unflag', it seems like the filmstrip / grid overview doesn't update at all, even though the "Flag as pick" text is displayed rightaway. I've waited 2 minutes after flagging an image using "P" and getting the text confirmation, but it's just not displaying at the bottom.- When adding an image to the target collection using the "B" hotkey, it takes a LONG time before the "added to collection" message comes up. As in, longer than 1 or 2 MINUTES if I wait for it. Sometimes it seems to not come up at all. Just now I CLOSED Lightroom Classic, and 1 minute after closing, the "Added to collection" message showed up on my desktop! Both of these things happen to me when browsing through a folder with about 70

I have the latest version (3.5.7.0) of the SmugMug plugin and I'm using the latest version (13.3) of Lightroom Classic running on Windows 11 Pro. I have a Lightroom smart collection that identifies a set of photos based on keywords and photo ratings.  The smart collection contains six photos.  Using the SmugMug publishing service plugin, I'm attempting to create a smart gallery that corresponds to all of the photos in my Lightroom smart collection but my rules aren't working and Lightroom isn't finding any photos that match the rules.As shown in the attached screenshot, the name of the smart collection is: "202405 Earth Dragon" and the rules for the smart gallery are:Collection contains all "202405 Earth Dragon"Collection doesn't contain "IG" I've been in touch with SmugMug support and they weren't been able to reproduce the problem.  The approach I'm using works when they try it.  They also said that the smart folder and collections are using Adobe's Ligh

HelloMy PC recently crashed (win 10) so I reinstalled windows and Lightroom 6 from DVD.  Upon opening LR 6, I was asked to sign in to Adobe.  I signed in online and then I was asked to sign a licensing agreement.  Then nothing happened.  This repeats over and over every time I try to open the shortcut.  I'm asked to sign in and then nothing happens.I called support and they were kind enough to send a download link to LR6 but with the same result after installing.  I tried running as administrator too. Nothing happens.  I checked the task manager and LR6 is not shown.  Any ideas how to get LR6 up and running again? thanks in advance.