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I have edited a number of images in LR Classic on my laptop and saved them to an external HD. I now want to transfer these edited files to my desktop and have LR recognize them as edited. I have tried IMPORTING them via LR from the external HD,  but what I get are the unedited files. And I've tried COPYING the files from the external HD to my desktop with a file manager and then Importing them with LR, but LR doesn't "see" them via IMPORT, and Synchronize doesn't see them either. Your suggestions are appreciated.

I am unable to preview presets in hover/rollover on my main monitor in develop mode.  I have to click the preset to see what it does.  It used to work, now it doesn't.   Is there some setting that disables it?  Why would it stop working? I'm running lightroom classic 13.2 on a Studio Mac M1 Max.  Garphics Processor is on Auto.   [Moved to its own thread by moderator because of a clearly different subject]  

Hi the radial filter is not working correctly. The circle does not appear but it does seem to be applying some changes but I cant control the circle and it appears more of a tiny oval of change that cant be moved. I have tried to turning the GPU off to no avail. Also my spot removal tool really glitchy. I have recently had a new PC but never had these problems before with my old laptop. Any advice greatly appreciated.

I import images sometimes that I've scanned, and they're already in my macbook pro. But the import function in LRC always wants a destination. When I send the imports to the same folder, it makes duplicates, which can lead to some organizational issues. Any ideas?

Although the HEVC video will preview in the lates LR, the videos are all washed out. Only VLC medea player will show it correctly.This is an Windows 11 (vers. 22631.3593) 

Having upgraded to LR Classic 13, I have been having no end of issues with LR taking ages to write XMP updates.  This usually manifests itself when I go to quit LR, with one of two different messages that LR is still writing changes to XMP, I then have to leave LR running for another 5 minutes or so while it finishes.. However.....just checking on disk activity, I can see LR Classic is updating over 4900 images and I havent even started any edits in this session, what in earth is going on?LR writing to XMP is slow at the best of times, but to start writing that volume of changes for no apparent reason is just ridiculous.Any ideas how to solve/speed this up? 

Estoy teniendo problemas con el lightroom para usar funciones de mascaras automaticas y desenfoque.La aplicacion arroja error y ya la instale y volvi a instalar varias veces. 

Typically I will import my photos in lightroom, then do my retouching in photoshop, and then apply my colour grading in lightroom. However sometimes I like like to apply a preset first, is there way to edit the original photo in photoshop instead of editing the photo with the preset applied?  The only way I know is to create a virtual copy, revert any changes and edit that, there must be a better way. 

Dear Brains,When trying to synchronise my folders in Lightroom I am told that 16,000 need to be imported and yet when I try and do this none appear. I understand extra large files can cause issues but there are maybe only about 30 that are too big for LR. My images are stored on an external disk array - Pegasus R8 ie 8 drives with a total of 32tb storage. I have around 500,000 images but recently the Pegasus was rapidly filling up.  I had these catalogued as 10 sub folders (1A - 10A) each with individual sub categories eg Landscapes. As I only had a few Tb left I took all the video files on Folder 10A and over a period of days have been moving them to another series of disks in a Drobo enclosure, using either drag and drop (I know) or moving within Lightroom. Either way it thas taken an days. If I now try and sync either my entire Folder or one of the individually numbered folders (1A - 9A) it will tell me anything from 100 - 16000 images need imported. Fine so far as I

Mi catálogo en LR classic acumula unas 32.000 fotos RAW. ¿En qué medida el tamaño del catálogo afecta al rendimiento del programa? Recientemente el programa acostumbra a "colgarse" y cerrarse sin previo aviso. (Windows 10 64 bits 16Gg RAM)

bonjour  lIA de la reduction de bruit ne fonctionne plus et bloque mon pc (windows 10)  

Until today, Lightroom backups were working fine.I had some photos (2022 onwards) on my ext. drive. The rest were on my main PC drive.I moved the 2019-2021 photos from the PC to the ext. drive.They are all in the catalog as usual. However, since then, backup has no longer worked. I get the following error.Lightroom was unable to back up the catalogue named "Lightroom Catalog-v12".Please check your folder permissions, and make sure you have available space on your backup drive and main catalogue's drive.I get the options to Try Again, Choose a Different Backup Folder, and Exit. Try again doesn't do anything. It returns the same error.Choosing a different backup doesn't solve it. I have tried renaming the backup folders, changing the storage location, reducing the file path name length, and more. No luck.How can I get the backup working again? 

I edited my photo in LRC and then performed denoise at about 70%.  Photo looks good while still on my macbookpro.  But when added to a collection that syncs with iPad pro, the photo resolution is pretty bad.  What am I doing wrong?  

Iphotos can delete from camera after improting. What would be amazing would be for LR to delete ONLY those that Ive deleted from LR. Is there a way to do this? I shot Birds at 20FPS and it just consumes a lot of memory. its teious to go back in and delte them ne at a time. THanks!

Whenever I attempt to create a mask, such as the brush, I'll use the brush and outline the masking area, but it will then reset back to the 'add new mask' menu. Using the people funtion will crash the app entirely. Have tried turning off Graphics Processor, messing arond with graphic drivers, and reinstalling Lifghtroom it self.  System Info: Lightroom Classic version: 13.2 [ 202402141005-bf1aeb84 ]License: Creative CloudLanguage setting: enOperating system: Windows 11 - Home Premium EditionVersion: 11.0.22631Application architecture: x64System architecture: x64Logical processor count: 20Processor speed: 2.6GHzSqLite Version: 3.36.0CPU Utilisation: 0.0%Built-in memory: 32387.5 MBDedicated GPU memory used by Lightroom: 3470.4MB / 5921.0MB (58%)Real memory available to Lightroom: 32387.5 MBReal memory used by Lightroom: 2360.4 MB (7.2%)Virtual memory used by Lightroom: 6469.2 MBGDI objects count: 1040USER objects count: 2959Process handles count: 2672Memory cache size: 10.

Yesterday I updated my Lightroom classic both catalogue and program. Now the masking function does not work. When I do a mask and then choose an option to affect the image my option affects the whole image. If I want to use a mask I have to open the image in photoshop and Camera Raw. Very irritating. I work on a Mac Book Pro Ventura 13.0.1.Many thanks for a quick reply how to solve this issue.

Heeeere we go again. Lightroom is running slow. Even opening preferences takes a min. I did try and change somethings to "fix" this and now I dont even know what is happening.    Lightroom Classic version: 13.2 [ 202402141005-bf1aeb84 ] License: Creative Cloud Language setting: en Operating system: Windows 11 - Business Edition Version: 11.0.22621 Application architecture: x64 System architecture: x64 Logical processor count: 24 Processor speed: 3.7GHz SqLite Version: 3.36.0 CPU Utilisation: 0.0% Built-in memory: 65451.5 MB Dedicated GPU memory used by Lightroom: 5723.5MB / 8018.0MB (71%) Real memory available to Lightroom: 65451.5 MB Real memory used by Lightroom: 5840.8 MB (8.9%) Virtual memory used by Lightroom: 12780.0 MB GDI objects count: 1158 USER objects count: 4344 Process handles count: 4153 Memory cache size: 1306.7MB Internal Camera Raw version: 16.2 [ 1763 ] Maximum thread count used by Camera Raw: 5 Camera Raw SIMD optimization: SSE2,AVX,AVX2 Camera Raw virtual

Lorsque je choisis plusieurs photos dans Lightroom, que je clique modifier et je sélectionne OUVRIR EN TANT QUE CALQUE DANS PHOTOSHOP, je reçois le message suivant dans Photoshop: CHARGER LES CALQUE NÉCESSITE AU MOINS DEUX FICHIERS SÉLECTIONNÉS Pourtant, j'ai toujours plusieurs fichiers sélectionnés. Je n'avais pas de problème dans le passsé. Pour Photoshop j'ai la version 25.6. Pour Lightroom Classic j'ai la version 13.2. Je suis sur Mac Ventura 13.6.6 Je ne peux dire depuis quelle version Photoshop ou Lightroom ce problème existe car ce n'est pas quelque chose que je fais régulièrement

My graphics card is a Radeon 6500 XT(4gb) and I have 16 GB of RAM. After opening the Lightroom Classic program and viewing a few photos, sometimes the screen shows random colors, and other times there are no signs, but Lightroom freezes. I have to close it using Task Manager. This has been happening for about 2-3 weeks, and I can't get any work done. I'm forced to edit my photos one by one using Camera Raw in Photoshop. Please help! This is very frustrating!

Hi,I updated to LrC 23 days ago and started experiencing a lot if reliability issues with Masking and Adaptive Presets (moslty selecting subject and background) after about 15 days of use. I did a lot of editing during those first 15 days and had zero issues. It is to the point now that Masking and Adaptive Presets (selecting subject and background) rarely do what they are supposed to and I get error messages. When it does work it misses badly and ends up being a blob of a selection for the backgound or subject.  Error message 1.Selcting an Adaptive presest I get the pop up error message "Your edits were applied, but updating AI setting may take some time" There a is progress bar but it just hangs and I have to force quit the program eventually.  Error message 2.Selecting a Mask such as Subject or Background I get the pop up error message "Something went wrong, there was an unexpected error and your request could not be completed." I searched the forums here an

I have a need to select the same person in many images. It always looks like the screenshot, and it ways picks random people. As you can see from this example, it's pretty obvious which is which. This bug makes the feature mostly useless to me. After all these years, I would have thought it would be corrected.

Wenn ich mehrere Fotos importiere und sie drucken möchte, dann wird immer nur das erste Bild gedruckt. Wähle ich ein anderes aus, sprigt in der Druckansicht das erste Bild wieder in den Rahmen.ändere ich im Druckmodus das zu druckende Bild, wird es zawr angezeigt, aber dennoch das erste Bild gedruckt.Öffne ich einen Ordner, wird immer nur das erste Bild im Ordner gedruckt das andere Procedere erfolgt, wie bei einem Neuimport von Bildern.Lege ich das Wunschbild in einen extra Ordner, klappt der Ausdruck, aber, es ist lästig, jedes zu druckende Bd dann in den "Druckordner" zu verschieben und dann wirder zurück in den Bestimmungsordner.Zum System: iMac 4,2 GHz Quad-Core Intel Core i7Grafik : Radeon Pro 580 8GBSpeicher 32 GB 2400 MHz DDR4MAC OS Ventura 13.6.6Lightroom Classic 13.2

Hello.Since not so many time LRc is crazy slow..Basically it's ram problem when i use a tool on lightroom my ram go to 86% to 93% and never go down...Impossible to work like this.For information i work on Lrc 13, Windows 10, amd ryzen 3700X, 16GO DDR4, and graphic card 8GO.You know if its a commun problem or just me ?Thanks you 

Has anyone ever had any issues with applying a background and subject mask, and then coming back to that photo and having to re-apply it every single time?  Even when I backup the catalog, I have to reapply it to every single photo when re-opening the catalog and when I export sometimes, it removes the applied mask from the photos.  Does anyone know how to fix this?

Hi, I am very much the novice at tech so any help would be most grateful. After changing computer from 2012 imac to mac mini 2 pro I find time machine which I have used for many years will not recognise one of my external HDD. The HDD appears to work fine yet it is greyed out in time machine. I ran the drive though first aid and all appears to be okay. I am at a loss of where to go from here. I have thousands of photos on the drive and some now have gone missing in LR. Any help or ideas would be very appreciated so I can do a restore. Thanks.