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LR Classic has become monstrously slow

Lightroom asked me to update today and now I cannot see photos after 2023 and all my albums have disappeared. Everything was backed up locally and to the cloud and yet the majority of my work is gone. I tried to open the Lightroom Library file which did nothing and I am left missing many photos from shoots and trips that were professional and personal. Is this an issue with the new version of Classic? Why must Adobe insist on messing around with the application. If you are making fundamental changes, be sure to inform your PAYING customers. I am at my last nerve with Adobe and the constant messing around. Can anyone help me retrieve my photos or is there a way I can go back to the older version.

Hi everybody. 🙂 I have a question:Is there any way to install Adobe Lightroom Classic on the desktop without having to install and use the (annoying for me) Creaive Cloud? I have a Creative Cloud subscription and can therefore use Lightroom, but I want to use Lightroom directly without secondary software running in the background.I have already tried to find a download link for a Windows 10 app - unfortunately without success so far. Also the attempt to install LR Classic via the Creative Cloud App and to uninstall the Cloud App afterwards unfortunately failed.Are there any ideas how I can realise a relaxed and pure working on my photos without all the other fuss around it? It is possible with Adobe Acrobat Reader, so I still have hope that I can do it with my photos, too. Thanks for your help!

When I quit Lightroom Classic, most of the time the backup gets to about 20% on the progress bar, then goes no further.  I have to force quit Lightroom Classic, even after many hours of the backup running.Every so often, on a different day,  the backup will complete after 2.5 hours.  There have been times when I've quit Lightroom Classic, deferred doing the backup, and then compressed the catalog using the Mac Finder. There are no unusual delays when using Lightroom ClassicI have the same library and catalog on a different computer in a different city.  The backup there takes 15-20 minutes What could be causing the delay?Thanks. My specs:Sequoia 15.5 Lightroom Classic 14.4 release I have one large catalog Lightroom data is stored on a OWC RAID 5, model ThunderBay 8, connected with Thunderbolt/USB4 The RAID's controlling and driver software isSoftraid 8.5  The RAID has a feature called Safeguard enabled: 

I have approximately 16,000 photos in Apple Photos, all organized into albums and want to migrate the entire thing into Lightroom Classic, including the albums. Each photo has a title that matches the associated album name. I see posts about migrating to Lightroom but cannot find any any posts about migrating to Lightroom Classic.Was thinking of importing album by album (which I would turn into collections). Each album is associated with a year so would create folders for each year. Any ideas?Thank you for any feedback. I am realtively new to LRC.

🧵 Titel: Lightroom Classic schreibt keine XMP-Dateien automatisch – nur manuell  Hallo zusammen Ich habe aktuell ein Problem mit meinem Lightroom Classic (neueste Version, macOS). Obwohl in den Katalogeinstellungen die Option „Metadaten automatisch in XMP-Dateien speichern“ aktiviert ist, werden die Einstellungen nicht automatisch geschrieben. Es passiert schlicht nichts – auch nicht nach Stunden oder nach einem Neustart.  Meine Situation: Ich arbeite mit einem großen Katalog (~100.000 Fotos, viele DNG-Dateien).Die Bilder liegen lokal auf einer internen SSD.Das manuelle Speichern über „Metadaten in Datei speichern“ funktioniert einwandfrei.Die Einstellung „automatisch speichern“ ist definitiv aktiviert (Katalogeinstellungen > Metadaten).Ein Neustart, das Ausschalten und Wiedereinschalten der Funktion hat nichts gebracht.Lightroom hatte vor Kurzem einen Katalogabsturz mit Reparaturversuch – könnte evtl. zusammenhängen?  📌 Getestet: Rec

I've been using my D700 to shoot tethered to Lightroom Classic and noticed a caveat on the list of available suppported cameras.  The pages notes inconsistency with burst shooting for specific models and the D700 are a part of that group.  I'm wondering how much longer I can expect my D700 to be supported within Lightroom for tethered shooting.  

Whatever the new update did to LrC rendered it unusable. It worked (as well as it ever does) 2 days ago, and now I can't edit photos because it hangs and hangs and hangs... Wasted time with 2 chat sessions, tried a couple of Preferences changes (which didn't work). They claimed that the update was "thoroughly tested"--obviously not. When they started suggesting that I try restarting my computer, I felt like I was in the bad old Windows days and just about went through the roof. This has only reinforced my hate for Adobe.  Anyone have the same issue? Any suggestions? Per guidelines:1. 14.4 Release, Build [202506051112-5918896a]2. Mac mini, 15.5 (24F74)3. Basic step to reproduce the problem: Open LrC4. Expected result: able to edit photograph; actual result: application hangs and hangs and hangs and hangs... Idea: 2. Processing photographs is my livelihood. That's valuable to me.

I have an issue with denose. When I try to perform denoise, the Lightroom Classic shows estimated time is 1 second, but actually it usually takes over 100 seconds. Could anyone let me know if this is due to my my laptop spec(I bought the PC just 6 months ago...) or if this is something that can improve? Below is my laptop specifications. Windows 11 HomeProcessor Intel(R) Core(TM) Ultra 9 185H 2.50 GHzRAM 32.0 GB (31.4 GB 使用可能)Graphics card Intel(R) Arc(TM) Graphics 128MB Thakn you for your help.

When creating a longer slideshow in Lightroom Classic, I encounter the following problem:I add my selected music, which is a mix about 30 minutes long.However, after what seems like a random amount of time,the music gets interrupted and jumps back to the beginning of the mix.

Since 14.4 all LrC functions have been very slow . In using a simple brush the display of the intended change lags significantly. Generative Removal tool generated error message and I receive frequent error messages that product is still trying to write changes to metadata in XMP. Collectively it is making it very difficult to get any work done. It is not a resource problem with my machine: Apple Studio M2 Max with 64GB memory and running OS15.5. These reported problems did not exist before release of LrC 14.4. Any known remedies?  

Is there any function assigned to the flag and the star icons in the touch workspace ... or are they just informative icons? Thanks

Hello,I’m a student based in Japan, currently building a Lightroom Classic plugin using SDK version 14.0.Please note that this post has been translated using a translation tool—my apologies if any parts sound unnatural.In my plugin, I want to process only the images in the catalog that have been edited. However, I’m not sure how to retrieve the "edited" status (or flag?) through the SDK.As a temporary workaround, I’ve been using the editCount value obtained via getRawMetadata. But this includes images that have only had metadata changes, such as rating or comments, which I would like to exclude.Is there any way to access the same "Edited" status as seen in Smart Collections or the Library Filter via the SDK? Or alternatively, is there a way to replicate that functionality programmatically?I’d appreciate any ideas or guidance. Thank you!

Bonjour, Merci pour cet espace. Je suis photographe pro et j'ai plusieurs projets nécessitant des catégories et sous catégories via Lightroom Classic que j'utilise depuis plusieurs années. Je fonctionne en créant par domaine ou projet des 'ensemble de collections' et sous 'collection'.Exemple : Je réalise donc plusieurs imports à la fois via la bibliothèque des différents dossiers sources en cochant à chaque fois “Ajouter à la collection” et en m’assurant bien que la collection cible est sélectionnée pour classer mes photos qui ont parfois le même nom (par exemple lorsque je donne des ateliers avec 10 nikon différents et où je derush par participant comme ci-dessus). Régulièrement (je dirais une fois sur trois ou quatre) les photos n’apparaissent pas dans la collection cible et sont seulement ajoutées au catalogue général. Je souhaite donc réimporter mes photos depuis la bibliothèque mais elles sont alors grisées car déjà dans le catalogue mais non classées dan

Bonjour,quand j'exporte des photos dans un dossier, je suis obligé de synchroniser le dossier à chaque fois alors qu'avant c'était automatique.

When I connect my iPhone to my computer, Lightroom Classic wants to import -- as if they were "New Photos" -- several types of pics that are not new.1. All the pics on my iPhone appear checked as if they were New Photos, even if they're already imported.2. Photos I already deleted on my iPhone appear as New Photos.3. Photos I edited on my iPhone appear duplicated -- in both edited and unedited form.4. Pics I've recently looked at on my iPhone appear checked as New Photos, even though they were uploaded long ago. This makes it very time consuming to import the right photos, leads to a lot of dupes, and results in me accidentally importing stuff I dont want to keep in LRC.  Is there a fix for this? Is there a setting I don't know about? Please help!

It's been a while since I used the Camera Matching Profiles in LR CLassic, so I was surprised to find that those now listed do not even closely match those in my camera. They used to, but now they seem to be generic. Does anyone have any idea why? I'm using a Mac with Sequoia 15.5, LrC 14.4, and an OM-1 OM Systems camera. Thanks!

Hi, I try to open LightRoom Classic but after three seconds the spinning color wheel turns up and won't leave. I have restarted computer, tried to use a different catalog, but can't seem to get through. What do I do now???

Hello Adobe Community,I want to describe my problems here and hope to get help with the latest changes in Lightroom Classic concerning the Denoise, Raw Details, and Super Resolution functions and related export issues.Previously, the Denoise function worked excellently, combining smart noise reduction and sharpening (pic 1). Now, as far as I understand, these two options have become separate. Moreover, Denoise simply "blurs" the image. With Raw Details - no effect. And with Super Resolution, it's impossible to adjust the degree of its application to improve quality – there are no sliders or parameters to control the effect; and after application, there is no difference. And Denoise and Super Resolution cannot be applied simultaneously, which is very inconvenient (pic 2).In addition to this, new functions like Denoise and Raw Details are extremely unstable. My computer (which is quite powerful) simply can't handle them. I tried exporting 7 photos after appl

I have been working on a book of about 120 pages, and suddenly all the pages and content have disappeared.  I'm left with just a few blank pages , similar to when you start a new book.   I don't understand what has happened.  On the LH side in the Collections panel, the collection is stil there, and as the book name shows as a sub collection with a book icon next to it.  In the film strip, all the photos I used have a 1 over them.  Surely this shows that the pages still exist somewere?   In another thread, I read to click on the 2 icon in the filmstrip.  But this opens a new window with just the selected photo.  Wthin the same collection, a different version of the book remains intact.      I have tried opening an old version of the catalogue and that didn't help.  I'm certain that I didn't delete any pages, I feel that I must have switched the view or mis-clicked something, I was working on the cover at the time,  

No me deja desplazar la barra de cantidad en los presets que vienen por defecto arriba. se queda enm 100 y no me deja desplazar la barra...no entiendo por que.

Hello,  After reading through some previous discussions of a similar issue others have also encountered, I can't seem to find a resolve for mine. I don't have any active firewalls and my interent connection is without issue. How do I fix this? Thank you!

I recently had to get a new hard drive in my laptop and reinstall Lightroom Classic. My Lightroom catalog is corrupt so I am using a backup one that is a couple months old. I went to import photos and cannot find any of my user presets in the import window. I have looked for them in the develop window as well and they are not there. There is no option under "Manage Presets" for user presets. Any ideas what happened to them and where I can find them in Lightroom?When I used this catalog last time, all of the presest were there.

Hi,  I installed the latest available version of Lightroom Classic (14.4), which is supposed to support Live Tethering, and I've been waiting for it since the device's release in 2024. You're displaying a feature on your website that doesn't actually exist... shame on you.The SDK provided by Canon has already supported this feature for several months, and my camera can connect from Canon DPP, but when I use Lightroom, no camera is detected.If things continue like this, I might end up switching to one of your competitors. Canon R5 Mark II, version 1.0.3 Adobe Lightroom Classic 14.4 Windows Professionnal 11.  

When using Lightroom, my Synology NAS disconnects repeatedly - sometimes every few seconds, sometimes every minute. This only happens while using Lightroom; in all other applications, including macOS Finder, the NAS connection remains stable and reliable.One of my workarounds is to randomly browse files on the NAS via Finder while Lightroom is active (e.g., during imports). Doing so seems to keep the NAS connection alive. It appears that something about Lightroom's activity is triggering the disconnects.This behaviour disrupts imports, preview rendering, and general workflow.My setup:Mac mini M4Samsung SSD: holds Lightroom catalog (.lrcat) filesSynology NAS DS415: stores RAW/image files, up to date, connected via SMB (AFP disabled)This has been my setup for the past 8 years (though with earlier Macs), and the issue has been steadily getting worse over the last 6 months.Another workaround is to use the Samsung SSD as a working folder for current projects, and only move files to the NAS