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Is there an Upper Limit to how many photos the Lightroom catalogue can handle?   I am having terrible performance issues. I can take a lot of photos in a day. 5000 plus. Lightroom just has a horrible time handling that many photos. You can't scroll in Library mode, it jerks and jumps around. Adding keywords is so slow.   I have watched just about every video and visited every page looking to optimise performance and I just get any work done without LRc slowing down and acting like something is wrong.   I've tested hardware, loaded all of the latest drivers, nothing improves the situation.    For example in Library mode, you try to scroll, the thumbnails distort and it takes thirty seconds for the screen to redraw. But even then, all of the infromation above the thumbnail isn't showing e.g. filename.   Thumbnails are SO slow to load. Ive tried creating differnt previews 1:1, smart, nothing works.   The catalogue is sitting on an internal NVME drive whi

Since LrC was updated to 14.4 (Windows 10) it is crashing when the right hand side scrollbar in the Print Module is used. It shows a white on black popup with Page 1 of 1 and then goes into "not responding".  Nothing else has changed on the PC.      

I am trying to import catalog A into catalog B, my main catalog, which is huge, but the process is omitting some of the images from A since they already exist in B.I want to force Lightroom to import them even though they already exist in B.  Renaming doesn't seem to help.  Does anyone know how to do this. (Why do I want to import pictures already in the destination catalog?  I want to preserve their edits.  But, more important, I just want to avoid the big job of hunting down all the pictures on the destination catalog and moving them to the folders I want them to be in.) Thanks allDavid

Hi, using LRC (latest version) stopped showing star & flag ratings in survey mode, all of the sudden, yesterday it worked. At the same time stars disappeared from my grid-veiw, but I managed to fix it from settings menu.  Not working when survey on secondary display, neither on main display.Any way to fix that? Screenshot attachedthank you

Lightroom Classic 14.4, Windows 11 I select two photos in the grid, then press C to go to Compare mode. The left photo always incorrectly says "Embedded Preview". Example:  Note the barn photo says Embedded Preview. Now if I swap places and compare, note that the barn does not say Embedded Preview but the Pembroke sign photo now says Embedded Preview, and it did not say that a minute ago before I swapped places.  Resetting preferences did not change this behavior. I also followed instructions to remove embedded previews by using Library->Previews to create new standard and 1:1 previews, didn't help.

Hello,A friend uses LR Classic on Windows and wants to make space on the hard disk. In the "Photo" drop-down menu and then "remove photo", it can only do so in the catalog, while on my mac or other windows, you have the choice between deleting in the catalog or deleting on disk.The question has already been asked here, but for deleting folders, collections or virtual copies. In that case, the purpose is to delete some photos selected in the catalog.How to get the "complete" popup window with the choice between deleting in the catalog only or also in the disk?Thank you

En ouvrant mes anciens catalogues je constate que tous mes réglages ont disparus!! au secoursssss! alors que j'ai la sauvegarde avec les xmp!    

Can i delete this temp folder without causing any problems in adobe programs?

Here's a strange issue: There are certain photos not synced in my catalog. I add them to a collection that is being synced. About fifteen seconds later, they somehow disappear from that collection and therefore cannot be synced. This seems to be my first time encountering this. I'm using Lightroom Classic 14.1.1 (m1).   [moved from bugs to discussions according to the community rules - Mod.]

When I export images to do a focus stack in Zarene some of the images have a horizontal black all the way through. My last export was 50 images of which 8 had the black line. The images do not have the line in Lightroom. I have Sequoia 15.0.1 on a MacBook Pro with M1 and 16gb memory. Prior to installing the new OS I did not have this issue. So I am not sure if this a Lightroom or Apple issue. Thanks for your help.

First of all let me state that I am very new to Lightroom. When a friend downloaded a free trial I noticed that the font size underneath the histogram was much smaller than when I recently signed up for the monthly subscription. Could anyone please guide me and tell me how I can change the font so it's not so large. I also noticed when I'm using Lightroom in my college class it's much smaller also. I have a PC but that didn't effect the first time it was downloaded for the free trial. Any help is greatly appreciated.

I am trying to remove reflection in Lightroom Classic 14.4 but the resulting image is just garbage resembling a horizontal planked door (best description I can come up with). See attached files.I am using a desktop with AMD Ryzen 5600g with 32gb memory running on Windows 10 (latest version).Any help/suggestions would be much appreciated.Thank you

Hello,I am using LR Classic 14.4 (build 202506051112-5918896a) on macOS 15.5 (24F74) on a Mac Mini M2 Pro with 16 GB unified RAM.The catalog was created several versions ago and has been upgraded multiple times to stay up to date. The problem is that, very intermittently, the cell extras in the Gallery view and the info in the Loupe view just go missing. No amount of pressing J or I respectively will show them. The metadata pane on the right, if set to EXIF, does show the images' data that should populate the cell extra or the loupe info. In all cases, the files in question are DNG files converted upon import from AZW files (Sony a6400). I am unfortunately unable to replicate this systematically, but it seems to happen especially right after I import images. (Also, I'm not sure if this is in any way related, but loading the previews from my SD card in LR's "Import" window is incredibly slow, even though the SD card reader is USB 3 and copying the photos is rela

Hi Adobe team,I'm running into an issue with Lightroom Classic 14.4 (internal version 17.4x2272) on Windows 11 with an NVIDIA RTX 5080 TUF OC (16GB). The GPU is fully functional and properly recognized by the system, but Lightroom Classic will not enable GPU acceleration for UI/display rendering. the checkbox is present but grayed out in Preferences > Performance.Here’s what I’ve confirmed and tried:GPU driver: Latest Studio driver, clean-installed via DDU.Display: Single 4K144Hz monitor, tested also at 60Hz.Monitor is connected directly to the RTX 5080, not via dock or iGPU.iGPU is disabled in BIOS.Lightroom Classic is using the GPU for image processing and exports (denoise, enhance, etc.), but not for display acceleration.I’ve deleted Camera Raw GPU config files, reset preferences, and tested with logging enabled (-crlog -crgpusniffer).In the generated Camera Raw GPU Log.txt, Lightroom correctly identifies the RTX 5080 and confirms all feature levels and shader support, but d

Hola, tengo un problema. No veo igual una foto en la pestaña Develop y en Library. He aplicado HDR y Denoise y en Library y no se han exportado con los efectos aplicados. No esperaba este comportamiento anómalo y ya he entregado las fotos a mi cliente con estos errores. Qué está pasando????

Hello everyone, I have had a problem/error with the display of EXIF and IPTC metadata for some time now. When I start LRC, the metadata is displayed completely as usual. As soon as I import new photos from the memory card (CF Express) and convert DNG to the hard disk, the metadata is no longer displayed. This applies to both existing and newly imported photos. When I edit the new photos, this is not displayed (grid view and filmstrip). This also applies to the color mapping. Refreshing by switching on or off (eye symbol) does not work. If Only a restart of LRC is successful. I would have expected this error to be fixed with the new update 14.4. What I noticed is that a metadata conflict is displayed shortly after the import.   Thanks for your support   [moved from bugs to discussions according to the community rules - Mod.]

After I import images into LR, it appears to be darkening the image in the preview window. I've never seen it do this before. When I export the raw files - the photo is unaltered (not darkened). Why does it darken the image in the preview window? Note: I do not want to make any adjustments to the original. I want to keep the original raw file unaltered.Also, it it normal when exporting from RAW to RAW for there to be XMP files? I did not do any editing in LR, so I don't understand why LR is exporting XMP files? I just want it to export the original.

In the last few days I have been trying to compose some slideshows.  Staring with a nominal 5 sec pause for each slide I identify a track of about the right lenght then use "fit to music".  When rendered the music was stopping 30 seconds or so before the end of the slides.  I noticed that in Explorer and media player one track was reported as being 5 min 25 sec long but LR was saying it was 6 min 10 seconds.  This happened with other tracks on  another slideshows.  It seems LR is mis-reading the track lenght.  I am having to calculate the slide length manually to fit the track length shown in Explorer etc.  This seems to be a new problem.  Anyone else suffered?   [Moved from ‘Bugs’ to ‘Discussions’ by moderator, according to forum rules.]

Lightroom classic has a great tool in its tools. I haven’t seen this in paintbrush or other programs - thanks to the developers of this company for such possibilities. Image can rotate! There is even a ruler tool when you click on the strainghter tool, and then! You drive on a line that should be straight and the program perfectly! accurately rotates the image.Please excuse me, but if such a straight line of small size, but very clear, and other straight lines in the image may not be, then it is very difficult to draw a line correctly, because the image in framing mode can not be enlarged. This is not possible, as I understood, because of the philosophy of the company Adobe (Adobe Company is an industrial brand), where developers know exactly what I need and how I should be better. No small role is played by a user group that accurately assesses the important points to be corrected or changed.Do I understand correctly the fact that for accurate measurement I just need to send such an i

I recently had to reinstall lightroom CC and when I start it up I don't have the navigator panel.  I saw a post indicating that you can select Window --> and then Navigator but I don't have the Window menu either.  All I have is File, Edit, Phot, View, and help.  This interface doesn't look like what I remembered when I first loaded it.  I'm fairly new to lightroom so maybe I'm starting it wrong. 

Desde que estoy pagando por Lightroom y Photoshop mi pc me va super lento. Y los programas de edición se quedan pillados, muchas veces no responden o van más lentos de la cuenta. No se si se debe a algún fallo de los programas o a algo de memoria del pc o cualquier otra cosa. Espero respuesta, gracias. 

I use LR to make my living. Obviously, LR is a pain the ass some times, maybe most of the time.Today, I'm shorthanded, about 6 hours in and playing catchup. Lightroom helpfully suggests that I "Optimize my Catalog" if it is running slowly. Hell yeah, it's slow. I'm told it "may take several minutes".No problem. I need to grab a snack anyway and I've got stuff I can do in PS..So, now one hour plus later... I still cannot use Lightroom! WTF guys, 1 hour is not several minutes.This is stupid.I have M3 Pro Mac Book Pro

I have a YEAR folder with different events throughout the year correctly organized on my hard drive. But the Navigator in LR does not have the year 2025 folder. It shows each event on the root. How can I can consolidate the events into a 2025 folder to match the rest of my collection?

Hi community !I have a problem,I can't export more than the first 10 pictures of my catalog (248 pics inside) (from RAW to JPG with adaptative color used)Form the 11th pc it goes from 0 to 100% in a blink and block at 100 and nothing happensI've tried exporting my catalog to a new one, optimised, reinstalled Lightroom, reinitialised preferences, tried with LRC 14.0, ChatGPT :)... nothing workedMy Specs are :Latest Lightroom, 5950x, 64Go RAM, 4080 SUPER, enough space to export I hope someone can help, Thank you ! Version Lightroom Classic: 14.4 [ 202506051112-5918896a ]Licence: Creative CloudParamètre de langue: frSystème d'exploitation : Windows 11 - Business EditionVersion : 11.0.26100Architecture de l'application : x64Architecture du système : x64Nombre de processeurs logiques: 32Vitesse du processeur : 3,4GhzVersion SQLite: 3.36.0Utilisation du CPU: 0,0%Source d’alimentation: BranchéMémoire intégrée : 65461,0 MoMémoire GPU dédiée utilisée par Lightroom: 6449,8Mo / 16047,0M

I just started creating HDR's, so I'm no expert. After the resulting HDR and the other 3 images are displayed, I do not see any text on the HDR image. I do go to the top and click on "Text", change to "File Name", and then "HDR"  like I see in the Julianne Kost tutorial on creating HDR's. Any help would be appreciated, thank you. Dick Davis