Lightroom constantly crashing Mac, also causing inability to browse web.

Has there been a resolution to this issue?  I have been experiencing the same isue well over a year with my MacBook Pro. I have had my hardware examined by Apple, no problems; reloaded system software and LightRoom; however, the problem has continued.  Purchased a new machine and experience the same issue with it.

Hello there I am Tony.

Just bought a brand new iMac 24 in with M1 chip. Also bought the Adobe suscription for Photoshop and Lightroom.

Installed both applications and guess what? I am having the same problems as everyone else:

- Lightroom crashes everytime

- Changing from Library module to Develope module can take many minutes

- Every time I needed to quit the program have to 'Force Quit' otherwise it will not do anything.

- The film strip at the bottom is blank with a few previews

- Get a wheel turning somewhere it says 'Building Previews'

I started using Bridge, at the begining it was working fine but then I am having the same issues as with LrC

Can anyone please give me any idea on what to do?

I don't know who to blame, Apple? or Adobe?

This is frustating...

Hi there

Having the same issuse.  Upgraded LrC and Apple operating system to most recent versions, and LrC repeatedly crashing when editing since - generally after editing about 10-15 pics

Any suggestions very welcome....

Lightroom Classic version: 11.1 [ 202112022200-7fd1f998 ]
License: Creative Cloud
Language setting: en-IE
Operating system: Mac OS 12
Version: 12.1.0 [21C52]
Application architecture: x64
Logical processor count: 4
Processor speed: 3.8GHz
SqLite Version: 3.36.0
Built-in memory: 32,768.0 MB
Real memory available to Lightroom: 32,768.0 MB
Real memory used by Lightroom: 3,076.9 MB (9.3%)
Virtual memory used by Lightroom: 44,430.2 MB
Memory cache size: 4.9MB
Internal Camera Raw version: 14.1 [ 993 ]
Maximum thread count used by Camera Raw: 3
Camera Raw SIMD optimization: SSE2,AVX,AVX2
Camera Raw virtual memory: 425MB / 16383MB (2%)
Camera Raw real memory: 473MB / 32768MB (1%)
Displays: 1) 4096x2304

Graphics Processor Info:
Metal: AMD Radeon Pro 580

Application folder: /Applications/Adobe Lightroom Classic

Installed Plugins:
1) AdobeStock
2) Aperture/iPhoto Importer Plug-in
3) Facebook
4) Flickr
5) Nikon Tether Plugin

Config.lua flags: None

AudioDeviceIOBlockSize: 512
AudioDeviceName: $$$/dvaaudiodevice/SystemDefaultAndEffectiveDeviceName=System Default - Built-in Output#{comment}DVAAU-4201250: Open the audio hardware preferences page.
AudioDeviceNumberOfChannels: 2
AudioDeviceSampleRate: 44100
Build: Uninitialized
CoreImage: true
GL_ACCUM_ALPHA_BITS: 0
GL_ACCUM_BLUE_BITS: 0
GL_ACCUM_GREEN_BITS: 0
GL_ACCUM_RED_BITS: 0
GL_ALPHA_BITS: 8
GL_BLUE_BITS: 8
GL_DEPTH_BITS: 24
GL_GREEN_BITS: 8
GL_MAX_3D_TEXTURE_SIZE: 16384
GL_MAX_TEXTURE_SIZE: 16384
GL_MAX_TEXTURE_UNITS: 8
GL_MAX_VIEWPORT_DIMS: 16384,16384
GL_RED_BITS: 8
GL_RENDERER: AMD Radeon Pro 580 OpenGL Engine
GL_SHADING_LANGUAGE_VERSION: 1.20
GL_STENCIL_BITS: 8
GL_VENDOR: ATI Technologies Inc.
GL_VERSION: 2.1 ATI-4.7.101
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Please post your System Information as Lightroom Classic (LrC) reports it. In LrC click on Help, then System Info, then Copy. Paste that information into a reply. Please present all information from first line down to and including Plug-in Info. Info after Plug-in info can be cut as that is just so much dead space to us non-Techs.

interested in those plugins

I too have experienced this horrible user experience of Lightroom Classic 10.4 (also started after updating beyond version 10) both on my iMac 21.5 2019 w/first Catalina then worse w/ Mac OS  Big Sur,  ironically my older Macpro 15 Mid 2012 still running Catalina was only slightly less annoying but still also problematic with this updated version 10.4. After hours upon hours of  spinning beachball  frozen apps, forced quitting,  lightroom, mail, safari and even finder not was not always responding. Also tried much of the shared tips, to no avail. Finally just used adobe cloud to uninstall and reinstall Lightroom Classic version 10,  on my MacPro Mid 2012 running Catlina and is much peppier, all around for now anyway. Meanwhile I'm also having my iMac fully serviced diagnosed just in case, if there are other issues w/my hardware or Mac OS too. Next I'm going to re set all my preferences from here on for better performance and might even upgrade my RAM on all machines too.  Best of luck!

Try logging into another account (you may need to make one), still crashing? 
Try starting up in Safe mode (hold down Shift Key when booting), still crashing? 
You might want to try running a free utility like Onyx: still crashing? 
https://www.titanium-software.fr/en/onyx.html
Also view:
https://www.macworld.com/article/352902/onyx-review-macos.html
https://www.macworld.com/article/224955/how-to-reset-a-macs-nvram-pram-and-smc.html

Where is the catalog located?

That is definitely not normal behavior. I have a 2018 6-core i9 MBP with a radeon 560X 32 MB memory running latest Big Sur and LR 10.4 (K=i.e. pretty similar) and I've never seen anything remotely like what you describe. I would suspect a hardware issue. Safari also locking up indicates something deep in the kernel getting stuck. You should run a full hardware check on this machine. Easiest is to go to an Apple store and have them do it but you can find on the internet how to boot into hardware check mode: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202731

They can do a bit more at the Apple store but that is a good start. Also boot into recovery mode and use Disk Utility to check and repair your hard disk. Second try running it with every non-mouse and non-keyboard device disconnected - i.e. no external drives, no hubs, etc. Third, do you have any third party utilities installed such as for Wacom tablets, soundflower, etc? Try disabling those.