Lightroom randomly edits my photos

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May 20, 2026
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After I’m done editing my photos, I will review my edits from the beginning. But Lightroom has this bug where some photos will be randomly rotated. I’ll fix the rotatation. But even then, when I export the photos, some will still get random rotations. Meaning I have to go through multiple reviews to fix the rotations.

It’s not just the rotations. Some edit like exposure, crop, masking etc. get randomly applied too. Seems like some are copied form a different photos. It gets worse. Sometimes I can’t just fix the edits because multpile photos seem to have auto sync. So when I fix one photo, another photo gets “fixed”. I’ll do all sorts of stuff like restart lightroom, reset edits, copy/paste from another photo etc. Some photos become unsuable because of this. I litarally have to decide which photos to not edit.

Please help. I am being paid to take photos. I can’t give my client bad edits because of buggy lightroom. And it’s very time consuming to review hundreds of photos multiple times. It’ll affect my business.

Sameer K

Community Manager

Hey, @daltontan. Welcome to the Lightroom Community. I'll need more information to help you figure this out.

What troubleshooting steps have you tried already? Please share more details about your workflow and the system info from Lightroom. Go to Help > System info, copy and paste it into a text document, then upload and attach it here along with a few screenshots or a short video. Right now, the information I have is too limited to help you.

With specific edits and workflows, you can end up triggering the following issues: https://adobe.ly/42Go013

Please check if this matches what you see.

Thanks!
Sameer K

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daltontanAuthor

Participant

@Sameer K

Here’s a video showing one of the many wierd edits that happens https://drive.google.com/file/d/1LW2M6Fo3GR-rCCwZhLUD59qLl-RrocqP/view?usp=drive_link. In this video, I found that some photos were underexposed after I have sent the photos to my client. It seems like the settings from the couple photos were synced over to the next 2 photos. You can see me going back and forth to ensure the photos have the correct exposure. And you see it being set twice to 0 instead of staying at +0.1. Btw, this is after I have reviewed and fixed the entire album 4 times! It’s ridiculous and embarassing.

Edit: I got the issue again. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gxoExAHGNqWvL_wl3ujovdJCyvlhBBK4/view?usp=sharing

This time you will see the image rotate by itself. The exposures are also synced between the 2 photos and I can’t edit them separately.

As for the issue you shared, mine seems different. The main one being that the edits happen by themselves to my entire album, not just the current/next/previous photos. It happens to something like 5 out of 100 photos.

This is my system info:

Lightroom version: 9.3.1 x64 [ 20260429-1653-6cd29ca ] (Apr 29 2026)
NGL Version: 1.43.0.5
WF Version: 8.3 5c9a130
VF Version: 1.0.164.1
HIL Version: 40501
CAI Version: c2pa-c/0.6.0 c2pa-rs/0.46.0
PH Version: 5.2.3
Adobe GSDK Version: 1.4.0.210
CR Version: 29.0.0.202506270808_710830c
Catalog ID: e275c1226c844da3bf6caaace21bb7b8

Operating system: Windows 11
OS Version: Windows 11 Home (2009)
Application architecture: x64
System architecture: x64
Computer model: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. B550I AORUS PRO AX / AMD Ryzen 5 5600G with Radeon Graphics
Logical processor count: 12
Processor speed: 3.8 GHz
Real memory available to Lightroom: 32617.0 MB
Real memory used by Lightroom: 2906.7 MB (8.9%)
Virtual memory used by Lightroom: 7931.0 MB
Memory cache size: 6164.1 MB

Internal Camera Raw version: 18.3 [ 2526 ]
Maximum thread count used by Camera Raw: 7
Camera Raw SIMD optimization: SSE2,AVX,AVX2
Camera Raw virtual memory: 641MB / 14260MB (4%)
Camera Raw real memory: 643MB / 32617MB (1%)

Display: 3840x2160
System DPI setting: 144 DPI (high DPI mode)
Dark Mode: Yes
Desktop composition enabled: Yes
Input types: Multitouch: No, Integrated touch: No, Integrated pen: No, External touch: No, External pen: No, Keyboard: No

Graphics Processor Info: DirectX: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB (32.0.15.6094) - 6 GB
Graphics Processor Detail: loaded: Yes, supported: Yes, compute: Yes, init: I4_GPU3, hard: success, soft: success, al: Yes, dl: No
OS Media Capability: true

Application Folder: C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Lightroom CC
Settings Folder: C:\Users\Dalton\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Lightroom CC
Library Folder: C:\Users\Dalton\AppData\Local\Adobe\Lightroom CC\Data

daltontanAuthor

Participant

Now lightroom is corrupting my photo metadata, and unediting too! After I opening lightroom I found 10+ photos with random edits, and exif data that is totally wrong e.g. captured date is 1 week older. Also about 10+ photos got unedited and I have to go through the all the unedited photos and edit them again 😭. I think the edits were synced from another album. Feels like lightroom is going to destroy all my photos now 😖.

I tried to change lightroom to an older version. We’ll see how this goes. This issue was not happening a few weeks ago, I think.

@Sameer K are you from adobe? Would apprceciate if you could file this as a bug report. I’ve been using lightroom for many years, so it’s quite unlikely a user error.

Thank you.

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