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Participant
October 5, 2025
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Lightroom 14.5.1 Hangs, Stalls When Flipping Between Images

  • October 5, 2025
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I have the current version of everything.  When flipping between images, Lightroom pauses for anywhere between 3 & 8 seconds.  It's frustrating as I am a professional who is editing thousands of images.  Adobe!  Please let me know what to do?  It did this in previous versions as well.

Correct answer johnrellis

Try disabling Automatically Write Changes Into XMP. If you use Denoise in conjunction with that option, a bug acknowledged by Adobe causes these symptoms:
https://community.adobe.com/t5/lightroom-classic-bugs/p-automatically-write-changes-to-xmp-can-t-be-...
 
But even if you don't use Denoise, there are some recent reports here of Automatically Write Changes causing similar symptoms. Adobe recommends turning it off:
https://helpx.adobe.com/lightroom-classic/kb/optimize-performance-lightroom.html#LeaveautowriteXMPtu...
 
I prefer having that option enabled, and it worked well for me for 15 years, but with this recent bug (and a couple others), I've disabled it. We won't know whether Adobe will fix this until they do (they rarely indicate ahead of time).

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johnrellis
Legend
October 5, 2025

Do you have the option Catalog Settings > Metadata > Automatically Write Changes Into XMP enabled?  

Participant
October 6, 2025

Thanks John.  Yes I do but I need the xmp data file for archiving.  I have tens of thousands of raw files stored, and I store each job with is XMP's so i can just reimport if i need to do some more adjusting.