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I have a new reformated SSD on which I have labouriously edited and rearranged my stock of photos into folders which group the photos into groupps and sub groups which are meanigful in the context of the photo locations etc. All the folders are grouped under a single "master folder" which is the only folder in the root of the drive. All good! The photos are a mix of CR2, tif, jpeg, psd, and mov. There are approximately 23000 and take a fraction over 1TB of drive space.Now the question! I want to introduce these the Lightroom as I have done in the past with no trouble. However this time I am baffled or I am completely insane.1) I select the file option "Import photo & video"2)I am offered all the drives  on my PC as sources including the one I want. The file count confirms there are 24000. Include subfolders is checked..3) Copy as DNG is selected.4)Build smart previews is selected with the target on another drive (also reformatted) call "Backup ****". It to has a 2TB capac

According to dng_validate, the value of DefaultBlackRender is "Long = 1". However, LightRoom, including DNG Profile Editor, doesn't honour this tag and render as DefaultBlackRender = 0, resulting in darker tones. Please use this photo as an example (https://s3.amazonaws.com/files.prod.dpreview.com/sample_galleries/9434362346/8350882581.dng?X-Amz-Expires=3600&response-content-disposition=attachment%3B%20filename%3D%22iphone15pro_main_0215.DNG%22&X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Credential=AKIAUIXIAMA3N436PSEA/20250930/us-east-1/s3/aws4_request&X-Amz-Date=20250930T072629Z&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&X-Amz-Signature=b791151b67f5fbb3e508ede71fef17353c94b956751dfcadda48203296ead122).   [Moved from ‘Bugs’ to ‘Discussions’ by moderator, according to forum rules.]

I'm having a problem with Lightroom Classic. I suddenly don't see the editing section anymore. Only the library. I've tried everything: restarting, starting with Shift and Option held down (MacOS).  Can somebody help me?

I’m experiencing repeated freezes in the Develop module of Lightroom Classic. When I move between photos, the preview often remains stuck on the previous image for 10–15 seconds before updating. This happens intermittently but frequently enough to disrupt editing. After 10–15 minutes of editing, the freezes become more frequent and last longerMy setup:MacBook Pro M4 Max (2024)36 GB unified memorymacOS Sequoia 15.6.1Lightroom Classic version 14.5 [202508061311-4cef2162]Catalog & previews: internal SSDRaw files: Samsung 990 Pro 4TB in a Thunderbolt enclosureTroubleshooting steps I’ve already tried:Toggled GPU acceleration Off / Limited / Full → freezes occur in all modes.Disabled “Use GPU for preview generation.”Cleared and resized raw cache (down from 200 GB to 50–100 GB, purged cache).Optimized catalog, tested catalog integrity (no issues found).Rebuilt 1:1 and Smart Previews.Tested with and without Smart Previews → no difference.Reset Lightroom preferences.Disabled all plug-ins.Te

I have read where you can right click on the development panels in the customize develop panel box to rearrange the development panel order. Well not on my version which is current. When I right click I get the Ø symbol and nothing changes. Any ideas whats going on.

I had corrupted macOS so need to redownload High Sierra wiping all applications and data, I have a legacy iMac 27inch (mid 2010). I have tried to contact Adobe via Live chat however no luck and they could only provided me with Lightroom Classic version 12 which is compatible with my macOS. Does anyone still have Lightroom Classic v9 - v9.4 on their system and can provide a copy to .dmg file or does anyone know where I can find a direct link to download Lightroom Classic v9 - v9.4? Please and Thank you to anyone reading this.

Desparate for help here! Last April I formatted an external drive to use as a scratch disk for Photoshop. Two days later I opened my Catalog in Lightroom to work on some photos. I navigated to the photo but, when I went to go from Library to Develop I received a message saying the photo couldn't be found. I then noticed "?" by all my photos! Even though my Catalog with all my thumbnails, virtual copies, previews, etc.was totally accessible, my originals were gone. I realized I had inadvertently formatted my drive with all my photos on it!!! I was devastated but, at least I still had an intact Catalog of everything. Then Lightroom had a new update and luckily I took Adobe's recommendation and had it create a zip file of the existing catalog prior to update. I moved the zip file to a safe location and updated the Catalog. When I went to open the Catalog after the update there were no thumbnails, virtual copies, previews..... all had disappeared with the update. I assumed that i

HiI have LR 14.2 and went back to 14.1.1, but still both versions do not show Loupe Info in Develop Module. Yes, I have done the Show Info Overlay thing, I have restarted LR several times, even my computer. It is frustrating.When I go to the menu, it does have a check that it is enabled, just that they just don't show up.Iliyas   [Moved from ‘Bugs’ to ‘Discussions’ by moderator, according to forum rules.]

I'm having issues importing a few images. I'm in the process of moving my images to an external drive, and while I'm at it, I'm making sure lightroom matches my 'pictures' folder. I have found some images that are in a folder but not in my Lightroom catalogue. I'm not certain if they were there at some stage but aren't any longer or if they were never there. So I moved these files to a folder I use to import from and tried to import them. However, when I did, there were no images found in the folder to import. I made sure the images were in the correct folder, and they were. I moved them to another folder and tried to import them from there. Same result. I tried adding a fresh image to the folder from my camera. Sure enough, it appeared as usual, but not the other images in the same folder.They are not greyed out as happens with images I already have imported. I tried searching for the file name in case they were elsewhere in my catalogue, but they didn't come up. I tried renaming

The info overlay is missing for a few days now in Library and develop mode. I've updated my Mac and Adobe apps so I'm not sure where the problem lies (LR 14.5 and MAcOS Sequoia 15.6.1 ).I've searched the internet and can not find a sollution and the j and i keys do not fix the problem.Even after I deleted and reinstalled LR the problem still isn't gone, and now I cant't even see the file name in the grid. Also I can not right click to send photo's tp Photoshop. It would be very nice to have sollutions to fix both of these problems. Thank you so much if you can provide solutions. Judith

Hi Guys, On my desktop (W11) I have installed Lightroom.On my newly bought laptop (W11) I also installed Lightroom.We save and edit all our photos on the laptop.I want to edit the photos als on my desktop. In my opinion the solution msut be a seperate SSD with enough room for years to come. Which steps should I follow to so this transfer successfully? If possibel answers in Dutch please. KInd regards,   Willem

When I import photos into Lightroom, some of the images show up blank.

I use two monitors - my main monitor for loupe/develop, and second monitor for grid. In loupe I can click through my folders and the second monitor shows the images of that folder in a grid (as it should). However if I click 'all photographs' in the Catalog tab the two monitors switch, showing grid on the main and loupe on second! Is there any way to lock the second monitor to grid, so it is always, always grid! 😄

Version of the app: LrC 14.5.1   Platform and OS version: Windows 11 24H2 x64   Basic steps to reproduce the problem: When using the AI denoise sometimes it does not apply or does not consider the already done desonise. It got to the point where I was not able to tell if denoise was actually applied without manual one-by-one inspection of each picture. From what I understood it seems to happen if I apply ai denoise on some pictures, then if i synchronize the settings with the ai denoise aswell including both already denoised and non denoised pictures. It already starts wrong since if the selected pictures has a different denoise strenght applied it does recompute the ai denose from scratch instead of just synching the value but it looks like sometimes it does recompute it but also does not apply it even if it looks checked on the develop panel. Moving the slider manually or setting the value sometimes fixed it but most of time it didn't and sometimes the slider did not move a

This is a former issue. As professional photographers we need to create several versions for our images and be able to see them between our catalog.  The problem is that the export is so fast, but the adding of the now new images is a dread. It makes impossible to operate lightroom until the process is done.  Imagine waiting 3 secs per image after a wedding export with 1000 images.  That's 3000 seconds,  50 MIN...   It brings the whole efficiency to halt.  please help this a problem that had been reported before but adobe doens't seem to offer a solution.   

I just updated to LR Classic 12.2 and now my panoramic output is terrible, blown out skies, color all over the place, file looks almost corrupted, I have never seen this before. This was from DNG files from a usual camera on a new MacBook Pro 16" with the M2Max processor, 96GB of ram running Ventura 13.2.1.  Even if I pre-process the files to jpeg and then try to stitch, it just looks terrible like the color / tone match algorithm is out of whack. 

I have the latest version of lightroom classic on my Mac mini with the latest version of Tahoe 26. If I export a .MOV file it plays just fine, but when I'm in the Library section movies will not play. Also, the tool bar at the top is acting weird. Sometimes it won't show.   [moved from bugs to discussions according to the community rules - Mod.]

Hi.  I am very confused as to what is happening with Lightroom.  I'm not getting any help from Adobe 'Chat' I just received an email stating any content on the cloud would be deleted in 14 days unless I purchase a plan including cloud storage.First question is - how do I know what is stored on the cloud?  I don't remember putting anything on the cloud.Secondly, I already have a plan that includes cloud storage. - and I pay a monthly subscription, so not expired as far as I know. (Photography Plan with 20GB storage). I have searched my emails and can't find anything explaining all this. I'm not technical - can I please just have some simple answers as to what might be happening, and what I need to do?    Thank you

I can't seem to get my files sorted by filename. For example, I have 100 photos named MAY_1000.NEF through MAY_1100.NEF. For a select few, I run the files through Topaz Denoise, which renames that group MAY_1035-Edit.JPG, etc. When I try to sort the files by name, Lightroom puts the "edit" group at the end of the original files, instead of  adjacent to them. Shouldn't LR sort them like: MAY_1034.NEF, MAY_1035.NEF, MAY_1035-Edit.JPG, MAY_1036.NEF....? In other words, I'd like to sort by the first 8 characters rather than the randomized sort the LR currently does. Thanks,Jeff Hall - North Carolina

MyiMac crashed and I erase eerything so now its like new- I download LrC and open my airport capsule time machine and tried to open it and I got this message: "You can't open the application"Adobe Lightroom Classic" because it is in a Time Machine backup." Anyone has any odea why wont it open? I know its in a Time Machine thats the idea of the Time Machine so I can go an opne it anytime I need it. Please help me- I have all my folders inside and pictures of my kids I want to have.    Dont tell me about an HD because I have those I just want to be able to go back into my LrC and work on the old folder I had in there.   Thank you, LrC crisis!   [Moved from ‘Bugs’ to ‘Discussions’ by moderator, according to forum rules. A ‘bug’ is not just a fancy word for any software problem! It’s defined as a coding error that makes the application behave in a way that was not intended by the developer.]

We have 4 Macs in our studio. Both Macs that are logged into my Creative Cloud account are facing the same issue where the gen ai remove takes very long to load, and after 1 minute or so, it says "Generative remove failed. The service is not responding. Please check your internet and try again."We have 2 other Macs that can run generative remove in Lightroom with no issues. They are signed into different accounts seperately All the Macs in our studio are connected to the same network, so it can't be a firewall issue.  

I have just re-installed Lightroom Classic. Randomly while using the program, my computer freezes.  The screen goes black, the computer is still on, but I can’t use it. The only way I can restart my PC is by reseting the PSU. I have had the same issue in the past with both Adobe Photoshop and Lightroom. This is a fresh reinstall ( I hoped that reinstalling would fix the problem). I must mention that Adobe lightroom and Photoshop are the only programs that trigger this behaviour.  My PC: Processor AMD Ryzen 9 3900X 12-Core Processor 4.28 GHzRAM 64.0 GB GPU: NVIDIA 4700Ti SSD: Viper M.2 VP4100 and HP EX950OS: WINDOS 11   [moved from bugs to discussions according to the community rules - Mod.]

Buongiorno a tutti,da un paio di settimane ho riscontrato un grande rallentamento di LRc, sia all'avvio che durante il flusso di lavoro (risponde in ritardo ai comandi ed è molto scattoso).Il mio pc ha 64gb di Ram, Windows 11 e una scheda grafica da 15gb.Grazie in anticipo a chi mi potrà aiutare

I submitted one like this before but could not find it to make a change. Instructions to export a psdt from to a jpg are shown below. "To export a .psdt file as a .jpg from Lightroom Classic, select the PSDT file in the Library, go to File > Export, then in the dialog box, set the File Settings to JPEG format and adjust the quality, and finally click Export. Lightroom will create a new JPEG file based on your edits, leaving the original .psdt file untouched. " Process:  I open a JPG file in LRc and immediately move it to Photoshop.  Change sky, do some removals and cleanup and then save as a psdt file.  In LRc I run a synchronize to load the psdt file and finish making picture updates.  When done, I export the PSDT file to another directory.  The JPG is created correctly but the PSDT is dropped from the ribbon below and the picture is lost in develop mode.  In the library mode I can see the picture in main screen&

I have tried to import some files (98) from an external drive into an existing Ircat a folder of photos, mostly raw files (.CR2). Withing the sequence stored on the drive are three video's (.mov). All the CR2 files in the sequence before the video files (48) imprted into the Ircat normally. The first of the three videos also imported as normal. The following two video files and all the subsequent CR2 files do not import with an error message that "LrC does not support  this file format." At the end of the sequence a group of 10 jpeg files also imported normally. Elsewhere in the same catalogue there are a number of .mov and CR2 files all of which have imported and function with no issues. Can anyone explain this issue and offer a solution?