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jbinco
Inspiring
November 29, 2025
Question

LrC 15.0.1 library filter has no effect when app starts

  • November 29, 2025
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I set Library > Enable filter and Library > Filter by flag > Flagged only.  Flagged images are filtered.  App is closed and restarted.  Menu shows the previous options are still enabled but all images are shown in grid including rejected and unflagged.  If I disable filters and enable it again, now grid displays filtered images.

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jbincoAuthor
Inspiring
November 29, 2025

Thank you for the suggestions.  Unfortunately, I tried all those steps and the issue persists.

 

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johnrellis
johnrellis
Legend
December 1, 2025

I don't have any more suggestions, unfortunately.

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jbincoAuthor
Inspiring
December 18, 2025

Update LrC 15.1 is more broken than 15.0.1.  Now the filtering fails to display correctly when simply navigating away from one folder to another and then back to the original folder.  Menu shows Library -> Enabled Filters is on, yet all images are displayed in grid.

johnrellis
johnrellis
Legend
November 29, 2025

Try these magic spells:

 

1.Restart your computer.

 

2. If the problem persists, try resetting LR's preferences:
https://www.lightroomqueen.com/articles-page/how-do-i-reset-lightrooms-preferences/

LR sometimes soils its preferences file, and resetting it can fix all sorts of wonky behavior. That article explains how to restore the old preferences if resetting doesn't help.

 

3. If that doesn't help, try deleting the Helper.lrdata folder:

a) Do Catalog Settings > General > Show to open Finder / File Explorer on the current catalog folder.
b) Exit LR.
c) In that folder, delete the folder "<catalog> Helper.lrdata".
d) Restart LR, and it will rebuild the folder.

The Helper.lrdata folder caches information about metadata, keywords, folders, collections, and other things to speed the performance of LR and it can sometimes get corrupted. In recent versions, LR has used it more heavily to improve the speed of displaying metadata, and there have been a fair number of bugs with it.

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