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77_sheep
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June 26, 2025
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Missing History after export to file and re-opening in LrC

  • June 26, 2025
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I have recently installed another external drive and copied the Lightroom folder onto it from the current external drive.

Whether this is coincidence or not I am not sure.  But when I have now finished editing a file I save it to file as a PSD document, as I have always done. However when previously it would re-open with the history of changes it not longer does. I can see the edited image in the catalogue with the history, so this issue only occurs when i export the inage as a PSD file renamed into the relevant folder and then open it back into LrC.

I also retied making a Virtual copy of the image with its history that shows the masks, but again when it is exported out and comes back into LrC it simply shows as the first time it has been opened.

Any thoughts or assitance welcome please

Thanks

Correct answer Rob_Cullen

Just picking out some quotes-

"export as a PSD file" -  Exports do not include edit history made to the original RAW file. (The new Ps file will however have the LrC edits 'baked in' )

"when I opened such image and Imported into LrC it would come back with the history." - Any image freshly 'imported' will not have History, so I think you may recall incorrectly.

Edit History is only ever recorded in the Catalog. 

I'm not sure what you mean by your "copying" and "moving" comments or how this is relevant.

 

 

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Rob_Cullen
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Rob_CullenCommunity Expert
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June 26, 2025

If you create a new image (by [Edit in Ps] ) then you have a new TIF or PSD without history. Not until you apply further LrC edits to the TIF or PSD that comes back to LrC will the new image show some history.

Could you explain your workflow with more detail- eg. Are you sending a RAW file, or a previous Ps edited file, over into Photoshop?

 

Regards. My System: Windows-11, Lightroom-Classic 15.1.1, Photoshop 27.3.1, ACR 18.1.1, Lightroom 9.0, Lr-iOS 10.4.0, Bridge 16.0.2 .
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77_sheepAuthor
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June 26, 2025

Hi Rob

Its a RAW file that has only been edited in LrC and so its there with its history on my screen.  I havent taken it into PS at all, where I know that it would come back with no history. So no PS involved on this particlaur image. Its a simple RAW file edit that until yesterday I could export as a PSD file into the relevant file folder on my external drive, renaming from the name given by the camera as I went.. Previously when I opened such image and Imported into LrC it would come back with the history. Now it doesnt. I believe this is perhaps linked to copying the Lightoom folder from the older drive to the new one, as well as moving the folder over.

Rob_Cullen
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Rob_CullenCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
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June 26, 2025

Just picking out some quotes-

"export as a PSD file" -  Exports do not include edit history made to the original RAW file. (The new Ps file will however have the LrC edits 'baked in' )

"when I opened such image and Imported into LrC it would come back with the history." - Any image freshly 'imported' will not have History, so I think you may recall incorrectly.

Edit History is only ever recorded in the Catalog. 

I'm not sure what you mean by your "copying" and "moving" comments or how this is relevant.

 

 

Regards. My System: Windows-11, Lightroom-Classic 15.1.1, Photoshop 27.3.1, ACR 18.1.1, Lightroom 9.0, Lr-iOS 10.4.0, Bridge 16.0.2 .
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