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So, when I import my photographs from my external hard drive I usually just move them, not add. So I don't know if this takes them off my external hard drive, usually it does not seem to. I had a glitch today in Lightroom classic while importing and so decided to start over again with my oresets. When I did, I removed the files from the recently added folder in LRC, when I went back to to my T7 they were gone. I know that when I deleted them from folder I did not choose to delete from disk as well, made sure not to smoke 1600 pictures lo. I do have Backblaze but I don't know if they were there long enough to backup. Any help appreciated! Thank ya

My images do not appear in ‘Develop’ tab when I select from the library. How do I fix this?

My web host has a neat feature that allows me to download the metadata  into a CSV format of a gallery that includes: FilenameTitleDescriptionAlt TagKeywordsand one other field they use that ties into the system you do not change You can then easily modify all the medata in the spreadsheet, when done you do a simple upload and all meta date for the images you modified will get the metadata updates.  This is very fast and easy to makes sure all the metadata is exactly as you want in a batch fashion. I cannot find any option in LRC that would allow me to select the same metadata fields from this CSV file to do a batch import as well.  It is very painful and a waste of bandwith/time to have to update each image one at a time in LRC, export all the changed images, the re-upload to the host.  I clearly want all my metadata to match in LRC and my host. Am I missing where this is?  Can anyone help me get this working?

Hallo Community,  ich verzweifle gerade an einem Problem: Ich habe meine Fotos in Lightroom in Ordnern organisiert. Meist importiere ich erst mal in den Katalog und verschiebe dann nach in den jeweiligen Ordner. Ich bearbeite die Bilder und versehe sie mit Attributen wie versch. Anzahl von Sternen und versch. Farben.  Aus irgendeinem Grund bekomme ich, auch wenn ich die Filter entferne, nie alle Bilder angezeigt. Beispiel: Ich habe über 1000 Fotos in meinem Urlaub gemacht, viele gelöscht. Laut Lightroom sind noch 612 Fotos in meinem Ordner "Korsika", es werden aber nur 557 angezeigt.  Ich dachte, es sei ein Filter-Problem, aber auch, wenn ich alle Filter entferne, entweder mit Command & L oder über das Menu (s. Screenshot), werden nach wie vor nur 557 Fotos angezeigt.Das ist nicht in allen Ordnern so, aber in fast allen mit mehr als 100 Fotos. Wer hat eine Idee, woran das liegen kann bzw., wie ich wieder auf alle Bilder in einem Ordner zugreifen k

[Lightroom mobile]Until now I could delete everything in "imports"/"your edits", but now suddenly nothing happens when I delete photos, and I can't delete files in the trash either. Why?When I deleted all the app data, the old files deleted themselves, and one day it was possible to delete normally, but now it doesn't work again.And can't delete creative cloud files.Where is the mistake? 

What’s the best next step ?I have finished editing my images. I have a few images in the film strip that I don’t want / need. After editing I suppose I can delete them, or maybe simply just close out LrC.  What would you do?  Thank you. 

When I chose several images in Lightroom Classic I can not open as layers in Photoshop

No puedo acceder a la página de adobe.com, fallo en los navegadores y he probado varios, pero con mi sistema operativo Mac Higt Sierra no puedo instalar los más recientes 

I have 15.3.1 installed and ACR 18.3. I keep checking updates on Creative Cloud Desktop and 15.4 won’t appear. So as a result I get the AI Denoise error because of the stupid mismatch.I downloaded the supposedly standalone 15.4 installer and it doesn’t do anything, opens Creative Cloud.  

Ik wil de integriteit van de catalogus van LRC testen.Ik kom er niet uit met de beschrijving van Adobe.Waar vind ik het dialoogvenster voorkeuren, dit moet te vinden zijn ALVORENS LRC op te starten.

Hello,  My photo edits over multiple project folders have gone missing after doing a reinstall of lightroom.  I do have backups of the catalog but non of them seem to recover my photo edits, it only seems to retain the my custom presets.  Please let me know if there is a way to recover my photo edits.  Your help is much appreciated. Lightroom version 15.4

In the Remove tool, there’s the healing and clone stamp tool which have to have a source. In previous versions if you hold down cmd on mac, and you drag the point, you can determine where the source should be exactly. And the original point where the healing takes place should show a preview of the source. In Lightroom Classic 15.4 when you hold down cmd and then drag the pointer of the heal or clone, you can not see the preview, only if you let go of the mouse. I attached a screenshot, it clearly shows that the healing doesn’t update the preview of the source.How it should work: It should display the preview of the source as it worked in previous versions.Software: Lightroom Classic 15.4Hardware: M1 Max MacBook Pro

Stepping from photo to photo in develop module is still very slow. Also there’s a bug in the Healing and Clone Stamp tool, where you press cmd and drag, the preview doesn’t show up like it used to.

I recently got an external hard drive (24TB) to store my photos, since my MacBook only has 1TB. I set the hard drive up through Lightroom since that is what the YouTube tutorials recommended. After set up (external showing in Lightroom), I moved over (drag & drop) roughly 3700 photos from my Macbook to the , which was roughly 200 GB on my Mac, my external is now showing full 23.7/24TB. What did I do wrong? And how can I fix this?

My masking panel is basically gone. The default is that the panel opens separately from the other tools and thereby, sometimes, it will cover a part of your image. I grabbed the panel and drag & dropped it into the column with the other tools but cannot get it back out.  If I select >Tools >Create New Mask then it will open all the masking tools in the right column above all the other tools. However, it says “No Mask Selected” at the top in the grey bar. And, there isn’t a bar to ‘grab’ at the top and drag it back over onto the photo part of the screen. Has anyone seen this before? What is the fix? Thank You!

This is my post from nine years ago:  It’s STILL an issue  after the full rewrite of the plugin.  How de we get this addressed?  Capture One and Canon’s EOS Utility get this right.  Lightroom Classic does not. I’m using an EOSr5 in an M3 MacBookPro running 26.5.1

Lightroom Classic shows a message “corrupted catalogue” but is unable to restore (the system stalls). This is a very serious bug for a software that I use since years and >100.000 photos. Getting earlier versions from the backup does not help.I am using the latest version of Lightroom Classic and the latest Mac-OS operating system on a desktop Mac.

I only recently discovered the LrC ability to edit filenames during import.  However, LrC has no Filename Text Editor in the right pane of the import window. The two panes available are File Handling and Apply During Import.Adobe Help keeps referring to “Restoring Filename Editor in Adobe Learning Manager Desktop Application” but I have never used Adobe Learning Manager! I’m a newbie to LrC. Maybe I have missed something, or my search input is misworded but is there a human out there who knows how to solve this dilemma? I really could use this feature in  LrC.  Thanks.

I have two photos taken with two cameras only a few seconds apart. But the timezone of the cameras differ. This is correctly reflected in EXIF, but Lightroom fails to recognize this.The FIRST photo has the following relevant exif tags (as per exiftool -H -n):0x9003 Date/Time Original : 2026:03:29 16:52:550x9004 Create Date : 2026:03:29 16:52:550x9010 Offset Time : +01:000x9011 Offset Time Original : +01:000x9012 Offset Time Digitized : +01:00and Lightroom Classic’s getRawMetadata returnsdateTime = "796488775"dateTimeDigitized = "796488775"dateTimeDigitizedISO8601 = "2026-03-29T16:52:55+01:00"dateTimeISO8601 = "2026-03-29T16:52:55+01:00"dateTimeOriginal = "796488775"dateTimeOriginalISO8601 = "2026-03-29T16:52:55.000+01:00" now the SECOND photo has:0x9003 Date/Time Original : 2026:03:29 11:52:090x9004 Create Date : 2026:03:29 11:52:090x9010 Offset Time : -04:000x

As a result of the recent upgrade to v15.4, I "lost" over 4,000 photos that are "Missing", according to LRc. I have followed numerous on line recovery suggestions, but have been unable to make any of them work. Have others experienced an issue?

I updated LRC today from v15.3.1 to v15.4. Upon loading, it said my catalog was outdated and needed to be upgraded for this version. Afterward I opened the program, and while the edits still seem applied to the photos, each photo’s edits have been wiped from the History panel. I rolled back to v 15.3.1 and went to import the backup it made before upgrading (from the Old Lightroom Catalogs folder) but the backup zip has no .lrcat file in it. All the previous backup zips have their respective .lrcat files, so it appears Adobe broke both the upgraded catalog as well as the backup. My secondary backup is only recent up to a couple weeks ago so I will have lost a lot of work if I have to roll back to that one. I read in a Reddit thread from 2 years ago that v14 did the same thing to a lot of people, and Adobe quickly released a 14.1 hotfix that apparently fixed it. Hopefully they’ll correct this, just want to register the bug and see if anyone has any other solutions. The backup zip does ap

All four of the new filters that allow to filter by EXPORT status, STACK status, LIKES and COMMENTS need to be manually toggled off to disable them. None of these allows to select the NO FILTERS option from the drop-down menu to reset them, especially when combined with other filters. When any of these filters is enabled, the drop-down menu only shows choices CUSTOM FILTER (which this is), SAVE CURRENT SETTINGS AS NEW PRESET and RESTORE DEFAULT PRESETS.This is a bug or overlooked necessity. LR Classic 15.4 on Windows 11, all latest everything.  

I added masks to about 140 photos yesterday, closed Lightroom Classic and when I reopened LrC, about 50 images had lost their masks; I can’t think of any steps that I had done to delete these masks, and I have .xmp files being created for all of my images, so I don’t understand how I lost the masks.I do have a fairly large (probably around 50,000’ish, could be more) collection of images on my hard drives, and my LrC catalogue is getting quite large (it takes a while to save); I’m not sure if this has affected LrC saving my masks. I’m a reasonably advanced LrC user, and this is the first time that this has happened to me (I’ve been using LrC extensively for about 3-4 years).Any reason why (like user error?) that I could have lost my masks?

The SDK call folder:getParent() raises the error "?:0: attempt to index field 'parent' (a nil value)" when called on the root folder of some catalogs on Windows -- it should return nil instead. To reproduce on LR 15.0.1 / Windows 11 ARM and Windows 11 Intel: 1. Download and uncompress this catalog folder:https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/t1gksh5hw2ov8g48tcca6/folder-getparent-bug.2025-11-20.zip?rlkey=kxqi5d5bx3tqcalrne14fyv2k&dl=0 2. Move the file "folder-getparent-bug.lua" from the catalog folder to the LR Scripts folder. 3. Start LR and open the catalog. 4. In the Scripts menu, invoke "folder-getparent-bug".  Observe this output: When tested on Mac OS 15.7.1, no error occurs:  Note that on Mac, the call to folder:getParent() returns 0 results rather than nil (though in most contexts, there's no difference).  

I only recently discovered the LrC ability to edit filenames during import.  However, LrC has no Filename Text Editor in the right pane of the import window. The two panes available are File Handling and Apply During Import.Adobe Help keeps referring to “Restoring Filename Editor in Adobe Learning Manager Desktop Application” but I have never used Adobe Learning Manager! Or “In Adobe Learning Manager, if the filename text editor is missing in the import window, it may be due to missing instructor assignment for the course instance” which makes no sense to me. Ok, I’m a newbie to LrC. Maybe I have missed something, or my search input is misworded but is there a human out there who knows how to solve this dilemma? I really could use this feature in  LrC.  Thanks.