Lightroom 7.3 suddenly crashes after editing more than a few photos

Question

I'm running LR desktop 7.3 and Mac OS 10.13.3 on a 2016 macbook pro. LR has run fine for over a year until the past two months.

Lightroom is the only program that both (1) quits out of the blue and, other times, (2) causes a hard restart on my computer. It happens whenever I'm editing more than a couple pictures.

I've tried :

- updating to LR 7.3

- turning off the graphics processor

- unplugging all external devices.

- restoring LR to default settings.

Again: LR worked for about a year without a flaw. Suddenly it's crashing all the time and sometimes causing a hard restart. Again, the only time my mac does this is with LR. I've run mac diagnostics and nothing is abnormal.

Thanks.

tomj87886473 · Accepted Answer

The fact remains true that hard crashes are hardware or driver related. Lightroom (and any other software application) cannot cause a hard crash in the absence of hardware or driver problems.

Mac just released a new OS X. I'm downloading it now. Fingers crossed. Thanks for your replies.

dj_paige · Answer

Hard restart is always either a bad/corrupted/out-of-date video driver, or a hardware malfunction. It doesn't matter that other programs aren't having these programs, Lightroom uses the drivers and hardware in ways that other programs might not.

You need to re-install the latest video driver; and also run diagnostics on all your hardware, and make sure the fans in the computer case are working properly.

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