Skip to main content
Participant
August 26, 2018
Question

LR Classic 7.5 Sync error "bad argument #1 to '?' (number expected, got nil)

  • August 26, 2018
  • 22 replies
  • 10904 views

I have trouble syncing  LR Classic 7.5 with the ipad app and Lightroom CC. 21 pictures are marked with a sync error (the sync arrow with the three dot below) and trying to re-sync doesn't work. The sync information appearing in blue on the upper left shows "syncing 32 photos" but there is no progress whatsoever, and the synchronization of new photos doesn't happen. I have tried deleting the sync.lrdata file several times, and even reinstalled LR Classics, but nothing seems to work.

I'm on a mac sing High Sierra 10.13.6

Any idea how to solve this problem?

This topic has been closed for replies.

22 replies

Participant
September 23, 2018

Same issue here with MacOS 10.13.6 and LR 7,5

The most problems occur with Pictures from external Drive / NAS. Where are you're Pictures stored?

Frank Stjerne
Known Participant
September 23, 2018

Mine are mostly stored on NAS, but my latest photos are stored on my local harddisk (SSD) in my Macbook Pro. I saw sync problems with both my latest photos stored on my local disk and my archived photos on the Synology DS916+ NAS. All the problems were gone when downgrading to 7.4

schwabische
Participating Frequently
September 22, 2018

Add another sync issue for me. The 7.4 downgrade worked. A five minute fix.

airthug
Participant
September 21, 2018

+1 for me... same problems with syncing... same great results after installing Classic 7.4.  I wish I had found this thread a lot sooner... I've been having trouble for weeks!  What's interesting is I recently got a new computer- I was running LR Classic 7.5 on my old system without any issues, but when I started using the new comp was when I started having all the sync issues.  That lead me down a path of thinking it was something up on my end, not something up with LR, and damn it if I haven't been near-suicidal feeling hopeless and stranded with no way to get a whole bunch of edits done in LR CC (mobile) to sync to my computer so I could export them and deliver to my clients.

So much time lost... such a simple fix!  The first post here was Aug 26; This issue has been ongoing almost a month now.  Hopefully Adobe is about done patching it and will release their update soon... but I'm a bit concerned they might not be aware of it???  I hadn't seen this thread and started my own help thread... and got the usual 'rebuild sync data' suggestion.  Seems like the 7.5 sync issue should be a known thing by now, and I wish I got the suggestion to install 7.4!
Lightroom CC edits not syncing to Classic

Anyway - thanks to everyone here for sharing their issue, and that 7.4 resolved it!  Finally I can sleep... !

Known Participant
September 19, 2018

Agreed! Best workaround was install version 7.4.

Previous uninstall is not needed since it will be automatically overwritten by the older version.
Quite easy by the CC App:

Spiketrain
Inspiring
September 20, 2018

Well, this is the first time in years that I've wound back to a previous iteration of software....

The process was easy, there were no nasty surprises, and my Collections now sync too - so that's good.

Will be looking for news regarding what I assume will be V7.6 - and the fix to this silliness.

Thanks for taking you time to help on this thread. You 'could' say "problem solved" - but of course it's really just averted.

OurStu81
Participant
September 19, 2018

Yeah great advise guys.

I have been screaming at Lightroom 7.5 for over 30 hours as it simply doesn't sync any changes. I have just spent 10 mins in the Creative Cloud app (previous versions) and rolled back to 7.4 and everything is syncing up lovely!

Avoid 7.5!

Spiketrain
Inspiring
September 18, 2018

Yes, so this continues.... and I've posted this elsewhere on this community under various different topics at different times.

I included a big list of things I've tried... which I'll happily share if it works for you.... but ultimately, this appears to be waiting for a fix on the Adobe side of the fence.

I actually don't mind in essense if the sync fails.... but, when it does, it would be good to know what to fix and where in order to get it going again. Right now..... it's in the ether.

Participant
September 18, 2018

I'll join them, too. The same problem. Furthermore, new images from Lightroom CC taken with the app will not be transferred to Classic.

Participant
September 17, 2018

Same issue in here (Lightroom Classic 7.5)... really annoying

Known Participant
September 16, 2018

Same problem here, stuck on 'Syncing ** photos' (The number varies after fix attempts, it's currently 33). I've tried all the suggested fixes that I've been able to find but still same problem. In Preferences>Lightroom Sync I have a list of files in the 'Sync Activity' field, all in blue. They have various references, some say 'bad argument..' some have a reference to lightroom.adobe.com/libraries. If you right click on any of these listings there are two options; 'Show Errors' and 'Remove from All Synced Photographs' Clicking on either of these two options  doesn't seem to do anything either. Tried Alt-clicking rebuild sync data multiple times, this doesn't clear the list for me..

Fix soon please Adobe

Frank Stjerne
Known Participant
September 8, 2018

I have the same problem. All sync stops

Participant
September 14, 2018

Same problem here. Tried all pausing, rebuilding, relaunching, signing in and out and the syncing still does not work. I was working for a week abroad on my ipad and LR CC and now I can sync edits of around 1000 photos back to lightroom Classic to be able to send my client ful resolution final images.

Please adobe help!!

Known Participant
September 14, 2018

Same problem here.

Lighroom Classic CCis not very useful in this state.

Please fix that asap, Adobe.