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March 25, 2025
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Local adjustment settings not remembered

  • March 25, 2025
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Using LR Classic 14.2 on a new PC, settings for the "single-slider" local adjustments like Temperature, Tint, Contrast ... are not remembered. On another PC, they are remembered as expected.

 

Concrete steps (example):
1. Press M to crate new gradient

2. Select Temp -> show some value like +25

3. Edit value to +10 (name of adjustment changes from Temp to Custom)

4. Draw gradient

5. Press M to draw new gradient -> we are still adjusting with Temp slider set to 10

6. Select another adjustment like Tint and work with that

7. Later, when selecting Temp again, we expect to get back to the last used value 10.
But on the new PC, we get strange value, often changing by +-1 (and oftemn not close to previously used value)

 

What can be wrong with the LR installation / settings on the new PC ?

 

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Rikk Flohr_Photography
Community Manager
Community Manager
March 25, 2025


Do you have this check box checked on one machine and not the other?

 

Rikk Flohr: Adobe Photography Org
Joe-PAuthor
Known Participant
March 25, 2025

I have it unchecked on both PCs

Rikk Flohr_Photography
Community Manager
Community Manager
March 25, 2025

It is working as expected here, and I cannot replicate with your instructions. 

Two possibilities to investigate:

  1.  Corrupt Preference file
  2.  Bad Install

 

This procedure works for both Lightroom Classic and Lightroom Desktop.

If you are using Lightroom Desktop, it can change your local storage location. Please review this setting after resetting preferences. 

 

Reset Procedure:

1. Close Lightroom.

2. Hold down [Alt/Opt]+[Shift] while restarting Lightroom.

3. Overwrite the Preferences when prompted by the dialog.

4. Close Lightroom.

5. Restart Lightroom.

 

Clean Lightroom Install Procedure

  • Close Lightroom
  • Restart the computer
  • Use the Adobe Creative Cloud App to uninstall Lightroom
  • Restart the computer
  • Install Lightroom via the Creative Cloud App without launching any other programs.
  • Restart the computer
  • Launch Lightroom
  • Wait 5 minutes

 

If, after these two steps, it is still not working the same on both machines, it is likely a system-specific issue on the new machine that will have to be resolved. 


Rikk Flohr: Adobe Photography Org