Masks keep dissapearing

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Starting today, when I go to edit a photo with masks, and edit the photo and all is good. I then move on to another photo and edit it. When I go back to the first photo, my masks are gone and only the normal edits remain. It says I need to recompute the masks.. when I do that the same thing happens, it will recommunte them I will move on and if i click on the photo it resets them again and the masks are gone.

JohanElzenga · Answer

Check the following. AI masks are stored in a folder called 'catalogname.lrcat-data', located inside your catalog folder. If that folder got locked somehow, or if Lightroom does not have permissions to write to it for some reason, then this is what you would expect. Each time when you move to another image, Lightroom Classic tries to write the mask to that folder but fails. So when you select the image again, Lighroom needs to rebuild that mask. You could delete the folder so Lightroom can rebuild it from scratch.

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