(Monterey) Metadata Field loses focus and triggers KBSCs

I can confirm that this is happeneing to me too, Lightroom 13.5.1 in OSX 12.7.6 Monterey. Exactly as others are describing. If I have multiple images selected in Grid view, click in the Caption metadata field and start to type a caption, the first letter only is accepted, and immediately LRC flashes up a progress bar in the top left, presumably as it applies that single letter caption to all the images. I'm aware of it now, so after one letter I wait, then reselect the Caption field to continue. But if I forget, then as reported all of the following letters are seen as shortcut keystrokes and all sorts of mayhem happens! Screens, views, options all triggered and I have to restart LRC to try to get back to where I was. This is surely a bug?

Moderators, @Rikk Flohr: Photography, please merge with this existing thread:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/lightroom-classic-discussions/clicking-in-keyword-field-after-importing-gives-weird-behavior/m-p/14013962

YES,  this is a bug still in the latest LrC 13.   The issue is it only happens on Monterey which is still a supported OS.  As said before, this ONLY happens the first time you type something in a metadata field after starting LrC.  Easy work around if you remember.

OK, I have recently started to see this myself, recently. It is not easy to reproduce, because it doesn’t always happen. It took me several tries of restarting Lightroom Classic to record an instance of it happening, but there it is (see animation below). I tried to write the caption “Sunset view of…” but you can see that only the S got recorded as a caption before Lightroom Classic exited field focus, and once that happened, as already reported by others, with no field in focus, Lightroom Classic interprets keystrokes as shortcuts.

In my demo, when you see the image change to acquire a black border, that’s because by the time I typed the “n” in sunset, Lightroom Classic had escaped the caption field and interpreted that as the N shortcut for Survey view, which adds black borders to each image preview.

And yes, I have also seen this happen with other metadata such as keywords.

So you can now add me to the side that has seen this bug in action. 🙂

macOS 12.7.1

MacBook Pro M1 Pro

Lightroom Classic 13.0.1, but I’ve probably seen it in an earlier version.

I am unable to replicate this failure with the instructions given.  
Mac 13.5.2
LrC 13.0.1 

Better instructions and system information are needed for consistent replication. Can anyone in this thread supply those?

Hey have you checked vers 13.01. From my point of view bug is still in.

Mein System : Adobe LrC 12.5, MAC Pro with macOS 12.7

Fehler : Bei EIngabe von Stichwort nach dem Starten der Applikation, wird der erste Buchstabe des neuen Keywords als Tastenkurzbefehl interpretiert. z.B. Eingabe des Wortes Ford, wird das erste F als Vollbildanzeige interpretiert. Gehe ich danach in das Eingabefeld Stichwort, dann funktioniert die Eingabe, bis ich das Programm neu starte.

Fehler bekannt?

Wie ist die Abhilfe?

Liebe Grüsse aus Cadolzburg

Franz-Josef

When starting to type in the title or caption field, after typing one character the keyboard focus is lost and keystrokes start getting interpreted as shortcut commands doing god-knows-what.  This behavior is frequent, but does not happen every time either.  This is new behavior that started recently, in the last 4 months or so.

Needless to say, this makes adding metadata to photos very difficult.  Combined with the bug that the title or caption field gets truncated and is not entirely displayed, a bug that was reported by multiple people years ago and has yet to be fixed, and Lightroom is becoming unusable as a photo cataloging tool.

Lightroom Classic 13.0.1 [ 202310121438-d2af310c ], MacOS 12.7.1.

There’s no way to disable the built-in keyboard shortcuts, but there shouldn’t be any need to…because what you’re seeing is not supposed to work that way. What it sounds like is something is causing keyboard focus to exit the text field, because the single-key shortcuts only apply when no text field has focus.

My Mac is also on macOS 12, and the reason I’m replying is that I’ve seen something similar. Maybe it isn’t the same as what you’re seeing, and I don’t know the exact cause, and it doesn’t happen all the time. But there have been times when I am typing in a Mac app and it starts beeping, and I realize it’s because something caused macOS to escape the text field.

I suspected it was some process that was in the background and decided to come to the foreground, and because it would keep happening and I had no idea which process it was, I would log out of macOS and log back in, and that would cure it for a while. (If that didn’t work, I would restart.)

Because it doesn’t happen all the time, and I haven’t seen it in a while, I am not sure if what I saw is related to your issue at all. But you should at least log out and back in, or restart the Mac, and see if that clears it up at least temporarily. (The point of logging out/restarting is to quit all user processes in case one is misbehaving.) If it continues to happen after that, try looking for any non-Apple software that’s running and has the potential to interrupt a foreground process. Especially the kind that lets you assign keyboard shortcuts or gestures that can be system-wide (overriding other applications).