Selective editing masks disappear when revisiting for adjustment.

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Lightroom Cloud Based... Latest version.

Selective editing works fine. I select my prefrence, I have coloured mask zone set up. It's fine.

I then move on and do more editing elsewhere in the software.

I then decide to return to the selective edit function and the masks for the different selective edits no longer show.

It's one annoyance after another. One very obvious problem after another. Something eventually gets fixed. Something else that is very important and obvious becomes a problem...

I'm thinking of finding different editing software and leaving the Adobe ecosystem. Lightroom never "just works". I'm sure there are pleanty of photo editing suites that do!!

Sameer K · Answer

Hey, @Doombandit. Welcome to the Lightroom Community. I'll help you figure this out. This must be frustrating.

Try these suggestions:

Ensure Lightroom has the required permissions on macOS: macOS:https://adobe.ly/3WfrQf2
Log on to Lightroom Web (https://adobe.ly/3XVZmIp) & ensure everything is synced & backed up before you proceed further.
Choose Go > Go To Folder in the Finder window and type ~/pictures. Locate a bundle named Lightroom Library.lrlibrary.
Right-click or control-click this bundle and choose Show Package Contents. You'll find a folder inside it with a long cryptic string of numbers and letters (for example: d1a4f88d2b534c7d91022136fd182532). Open that folder.
In the folder, move out all the files named Managed Catalog.[anything] to the Mac's desktop. Also, delete the Previews.db file.
Launch Lightroom.

Let me know how it goes. Thanks!
Sameer K

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