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Nov 17, 2014 6:13 AM UTC
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P: An internal error has occurred: ?:0: attempt to index field, "?" (a nil value)

This message appears on the screen. "An internal error has occurred: attempt to index field "?" (a nil value). How can I fix this?

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    brucekorb
    brucekorb
    Inspiring
    Jan 29, 2026 8:23 PM UTC

    How you accommodate it depends on the cause. 100% guaranteed software bug, but LrC won’t reveal what area of the code triggered it. In my case, I got this precise message:

    Internal error ?:0 / indexing a NIL value while exporting a JPG

    Cause: select two images in the “recent imports” collection and permanently delete one, then export

    Solution: switch to the everything collection and then switch back to recents. The selection for the removed photo will be released and export won’t fail on it.

    ADOBE thinks that it’s only worthy of discussion and I think that whoever reviewed my bug report has a poor understanding of software. I said as much before, but my bug reporting capability has been disabled, or I’d re-report the bug. (They moved it into a comment on a discussion thread, saying my bug report duplicated the discussion. Wrong.)

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    J453
    Legend
    Jan 5, 2018 10:05 PM UTC
    Hi Becky, have you tried updating or reinstalling Shotproof?
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    FeedbackCommunityMemberAuthor
    Inspiring
    Jan 5, 2018 2:37 PM UTC
    Did anybody get any resolution on this? Getting the same error, using a Shootproof plugin on LR 7.1 subscription version running on MacOS Sierra.
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    Anonymous
    Oct 22, 2017 6:25 PM UTC
    Getting the same error - posting to Facebook.
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    Anonymous
    Oct 22, 2017 6:25 PM UTC
    Same here
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    FeedbackCommunityMemberAuthor
    Inspiring
    Aug 13, 2017 8:46 AM UTC
    Also getting the same error - very frustrating
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    FeedbackCommunityMemberAuthor
    Inspiring
    Aug 6, 2017 7:52 AM UTC

    Same here


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    FeedbackCommunityMemberAuthor
    Inspiring
    Jul 22, 2017 6:15 PM UTC
    I am using LR6 and get this error when trying to export to Facebook.  Only started about a month ago (May 2017)
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    areohbee
    areohbee
    Legend
    Jan 3, 2015 11:32 PM UTC
    Try Jeffrey Friedl's SmugMug plugin.
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    FeedbackCommunityMemberAuthor
    Inspiring
    Jan 3, 2015 5:23 PM UTC
    I'm having this same problem. Here's the error:

    an internal error has occurred: ?:0: attempt to index field 'error' (a nil value)

    I'm using LR5.7 (monthly subscription) and Windows 7 OS. The error occurs when I'm trying to publish a Smart Gallery via SmugMug plugin 2.1.8 (says it's updated version). It takes for bloody ever and finally after hours upon hours of doing nothing (but saying operation in progress), there is this error. HELP!!! I need to be able to publish to SM.
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