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Natzure19143389
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April 3, 2016
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P: Preparing slideshow hangs on slide # 2

  • April 3, 2016
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This has been happening repeatedly in previous versions and hasn't been fixed in LR 6.5 (standalone). 
Steps
1.  Select some slides.  I'm using a filter to select slides that are 4 stars or higher.  There are 16 of them in the folder that match.
2. Go to slidshow and hit "play"
3.  The dialog box comes up "Preparing Slideshow" and below Preparing preview for slide #2.  It mostly hangs on # 2 but sometimes a different slide.  If I cancel and choose a different folder with no filters (all images) and hit "play" it hangs on # 2 again.
4.  BTW...if I hit the -> buttone (play) below the images, instead of the "Play" button in the right hand lower corner, it'll play.
5.  Also, based on some other input, I've tried turning off/on the GPU. No difference.

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    Natzure19143389Author
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    July 2, 2016
    Hi burkemt.  That works on LR non cc 6.6 windows 10 too.  Thanks.
    However, I'm surprised the bug is still in the code.
    Burkemt
    Burkemt
    Participant
    July 2, 2016
    Sunil et al: I found this forum when I encountered the exact same problem this morning.  I discovered that if I change Quality to Draft (from the default of Standard), the module "unfreezes".  I was then able to go back to Standard and successfully run the slideshow.  I'm running LR CC 2015.6 and OS X 10.11.5.
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    FeedbackCommunityMember
    Inspiring
    April 14, 2016
    Sunil, I'm getting the exact same issue and I'm not able to fix in any way. Is there any known workaround for this?

    Running LR CC on OS X updated to the latest version.
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    Natzure19143389Author
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    April 4, 2016
    Thanks Sunil.  I'm on windows 10 64 with LR 6.5.  This issue has been there for awhile but is better as before both play buttons (text and icon) would hang.
    Sunil_Bhaskaran
    Sunil_Bhaskaran
    Inspiring
    April 4, 2016
    Thanks for the update, Byron.
    We could reproduce this issue intermittently. Are you using a Windows 7 machine?
    We are investigating this issue. Will update you on this further.
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    Natzure19143389Author
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    April 4, 2016
    HI Sunil, I"m on LR6.5.  There are 2 play buttons.  One to right of Preview that has the word Play. The other is the right arrow head below the image.  If I press the text "Play" button I have this issue. If I press the right arrow play button, it works.  I removed spaces and still the same issue.
    Sunil_Bhaskaran
    Sunil_Bhaskaran
    Inspiring
    April 4, 2016
    I suppose the button you are referring to is Preview Slideshow.
    Did renaming helped you to play the slideshow?

    Thanks,
    Sunil
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    Natzure19143389Author
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    April 4, 2016
    Hi Robert, thanks for the reply.  I'll try it. What's odd is that if i hit the arrow play button it works.  So there's some other process that's brought to bare hitting the text PLAY button.
    Rob_Cullen
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    Rob_CullenCommunity Expert
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    April 4, 2016
    I experienced the exact same problem here!  (CC2015.5 Windows-10)

    I did try re-naming all the images in the slideshow and that solved my problem with that one slideshow!  (They were JPGs collected for a workshop presentation)
    So maybe it's a file-name bug. Never use spaces in file-names!
    Regards. My System: Windows-11, Lightroom-Classic 15.3, Photoshop 27.5, ACR 18.3, Lightroom 9.3, Lr-iOS 10.4.0, Bridge 16.0.3 .
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