Lightroom 5.5 crashes

You are much better off reverting to pre LR 5.5.

5.5 is a disaster for anyone making his living with photography !!!

Followed the instructions and also crashing whe it reaches the 10,000 GDI Objects it just keeps climbing on each selected image until it reaches 10,000 an then crashes!

Same issue here; Windows 7 64x, i5, 8 GB. I thought it was fixed after contacting tech support, by deleting the preferences, and rebuilding the catalog. Worked for an hour, next try, back to the same useless performance. I will try a reinstall and then it's back to 5.4. What a waste of time and energy.

I was using the stand alone version, so I uninstalled it, reinstalled the Creative Cloud Installer and downloaded via CC. Worked great...for a few minutes and then the same old slow down, tics and stalls.

I wondered if updating my graphics card driver would help. I have done that, and at first, it seems to be somewhat better, but the healing brush and anything while zoomed in to 1:1 is still dreadfully slow. So is exporting...it is really slow. Solutions would be appreciated, Mr. Adobe; this is happening to too many people....

LR 5.5 continues to crash when I am culling images.  I am on Windows 8.1.  Besides going back to 5.4 is there another solution from Adobe? I just upgraded last week ,and I crash constantly. 

Lightroom 5.5 has been a very big disappointment without question. Many software vendors seem to have problems with Windows 81. Last week is was Corel and this week its Adobe. I keep getting the crash screen from lightroom and QT32 Server. Ironically, Corel technical support had to access my system remotely and remove several 32 bit programs that were compatible with and installed on Windows 8 but were incompatible and caused crashes on Windows 8.1. All were 32 bot programs. Once removed all the 64 bit programs from Corel work perfectly.

I use Premiere Elements and Photoshop Elements 11, which are both 32 bit programs and the Adobe Quick Time 32 server crashes at the same time as Lightroom. Ironically, the only 64 bit program which has worked without incident across all platforms (Linux, Mac, and Windows), and Processors (32 or 64 bit) is GIMP, and free software product that has many features that Photoshop has.

Adobe would be wise to pay closer attention to quality at the price points they have and the fact they are no longer workstation based. They might also take a look at how the companies that provide free open source products seem to be providing higher quality software products.

I've been a software developer since 1976 and an adobe customer since Photoshop 1.0 and am seriously considering dumping all their products if they don't start paying more attention to customer needs and less to stockholder wants.

Like cpnd just said, mine is crashing on renaming too.  Hard to believe I reach 10,000 selections in a half hour though.  I'm working with small catalogs, 2,000 - 3,000 images/catalog.  Of course I have multiple selections as I'm shuffling & renaming images, but as I said I'd be surprised if I'm hitting 10,000 selections in 30-60 minutes.

Does Adobe actually monitor these threads?  It would be nice to know if they're: (1) aware of the problem, (2) working on it, and (3) anticipating another release sometime soon to fix their obviously not-thoroughly-tested-enough 5.5 release.

I reinstalled 5.4 this morning. I just clicked Adobe's link from the first page-- no uninstalling or anything. Two hours in with no problems. It was definitely worth the extra 10 minutes of downtime.

The machine I'm working on is remote from the raws so I was worried about having to rebuild 1:1 previews, but it wasn't a problem at all; completely painless.

uninstalled 5.5... major issues with 5.5 locking up, not responding, video blinking as if it were on the verge of crashing the entire system... will stay with 5.4 until Adobe fixes this nonsense...

dbilger wrote: I just installed the update to 5.5, and in the last hour it has crashed 4 times. I get the error below. never had a problem until I upgraded. Ironically, I updated it because I wanted the bug fixes, but all I got were bugs. Is there actually anything I can do to try to fix it? Running Win 8.1. And like I said, worked fine until I updated.

For the customers who experienced the Lr 5.5 instability issue on Windows 7/8, are crashes only happen after you have worked in Lr 5.5 a while? There might be some Windows resource leaks. Could you describe the typical steps that you do while in Lr 5.5 when the crash happens?

1) Have you turned on the Lightroom mobile sync for the catalog?

2) Before you launch Lr 5,5, could you bring up the Windows Task Manager (Ctrl - Alt - Del works). From the Task Manager's View menu, pick "Select Columns..." and make sure that "GDI Objects", "Threads", "Memory - Working Set" and "Memory - Private Working Set" options are checked and then hit okay.

3) Launch Lr 5.5 and in your normal routines, monitor the numbers in the above selected columns in the Task Manager and see if those keep going up.

Thanks,

I'm running Windows 7 64 bit.  I was trying to process over 500 photos with Lightroom 5.5, and it kept crashing, displaying that pop up window - Lightroom has stopped working... close program.  It was actually doing that about every 10 minutes, which made it totally unusable.  Re-booting the computer and closing other programs did not help at all.  I can see that there is no patch offered by Adobe to fix this.  So, I uninstalled, then re-installed version 5.4, which is VERY stable.  Problem solved!  Zero crashes since then.  In my opinion, this is the best solution to this problem.  I will not be so quick to install updates in the future.