Lightroom Classic

PHOTOSHOP OPENS AND WORKS FINE BUT LIGHTROOM CLASSIC WILL NOT OPEN 

“Lightroom can’t import this catalog because of an unexpected error” I shot a festival last weekend, did some on site editing on my laptop. Now i want to import the festival catalog to my main one. specs of the main one and the festival match, they’re both:Lightroom Classic-versie: 15.5 [ 202607291506-b8869fa7 ]Licentie: Creative CloudI can open both catalog on my computer i can optimize them, close one, open the other all without problem. So they both seem to be working. I’ve put them in the same folder. So in folder x is a folder current catalog and a folder festival catalog. But everytime i click File → import from a different catalog, i select the festival catalog and immediately i get the error “Lightroom can’t import this catalog because of an unexpected error”. Somebody who can advise me? 

I cannot create a file on the external disc like saving my pictures year 2024. I tried to pick and slide 2024 file to the external disc, nothing happen.

Hi, since the last update of LRC it changes the “date created” and the date “last modified” to the time of ‘now’ when I export my RAW’s to JPG’s. Before the update I had no problems, I have searched through a lot of settings and preferences, but I can not figure out what has changed. I’ve read some old posts regarding this topic, but I still don’t know what to do. Can someone please help?

hii copied my lightroom catalogue to an expernal encrypted usb-drive. I can’t open it directly on the external drive (because it is read-only) so i copied it on my notebook (windows).When i open it in Lightroom it updates the catalog (which works fine) and then opens it …. unfortunately not a single preview is shown although i also copied those files with the catalogue(yes, i did not take all original photos with me as i intended to do most work in the catalogue section (where the previews would be enough to have).can i somehow get those previews to be shown in the catalogue? 

HiI am running LrC version 15.5 on a Mac - 3.8 GHz 8-Core Intel Core i7, AMD Radeon Pro 5500 XT 8 GB, MacOS Tahoe 26.6Until recently I had no issues using the masking tool, however it no longer finds people .. it comes back with "No people found"Other masks such as background and subject selection work as they should. Any help or guidance would be most appreciated.Thanks

Sliders for the new mask feather/edge seem quite sensitive.  Was wondering if there were any keyboard shortcuts available which would allow nudging the sliders a step at a time?

As soon as I import, “fetching previews” is stuck. No previews show.  I have tried updating, restarting the computer and the application, and going to the catalog settings- face detection was not checked/address lookup not checked / culling not checked.   

Hi all. I upgraded Lightroom classic to the latest version 15.5 which is the August update and now I find that I cannot see any of my images in the libary module. Lightroom was fine before the upgrade and now I find this happening to me. I want to know if this is a bug or something else. Has anyone else experienced thins issue after upgrading to the latest version of Lightroom classic. I have enclosed a screenshot if anyone can help out a solution to this. 

I updated to LrC 15.5 a few hours ago.  Since then LrC has problems with video files.  The first problem I noticed was that when I tried to synchronize a folder that had two new video files.  After a couple of minutes I got the error message “An unknown error occurred while reading the video file. (2)”.  I had just completed those files with DaVinci Resolve so I went back and produced the same files again to check if DR had made an error.  When I tried again with the new files but got the same errors.  I was able to play both videos without any issue using VLC Media Player, so they seem to be OK.  I then shutdown LrC and did a backup including optimizing the catalog, and then restarted it to see if that made any difference, but same error.  Then I started looking at other videos that were already in LrC and found that when browsing them in the Library module, most of them pop up a message “There was an error working with the video”.  They will not play in LrC but work fine with VLC Med

After latest update "There was an error working with the video" message appears for all of my GoPro videos leaded earlier this year. Videos from other cameras still process just fine.

Problem: Lightroom Classic catalog backup fails every time, consistently at the final step — "Katalogsicherung wird komprimiert" (compressing the catalog backup). Error shown: "Lightroom konnte den Katalog '2026_07_LightroomFull-v14' nicht sichern" with generic advice to check folder permissions/disk space.System:Lightroom Classic 15.4.1 [202606201310-b9f148a4], Creative Cloud license macOS 26.5.2 (25F84), Apple M2 Max, 32GB RAM, arm64 Catalog:  (~4.2GB), on an internal HFS+ (Journaled) volume connected via PCIe Backup target tested:  (on boot APFS volume) — also failed with 2 other previously tried destination foldersAlready ruled out:Destination folder permissions/ownership — correct, and writable (verified via Terminal) Free disk space — 213GB free on boot volume, 4.2TB free on catalog volume macOS Full Disk Access — granted to Lightroom Classic Filesystem corruption — Disk Utility First Aid on the catalog volume: clean, exit code 0 Catalog SQLite structural integrity — PRAGMA integ

Assisted Culling is now generally available in Lightroom ClassicTL; DR: Assisted Culling has graduated from Early Access to General Availability. It gives you a fast, reviewable first pass on large shoots: it surfaces your strongest frames and sets aside the obvious rejects, so you spend less time comparing near-duplicates. You stay in control: review everything, adjust the thresholds, and override any call. If you tried it back in October 2025, it's substantially more accurate now, especially for wedding, event, group, and portrait work. We'd love for you to give it another look and tell us what you think in this thread.  What it does Open an album or collection, run a cull, and Assisted Culling analyzes your images against the criteria you choose: Subject Sharpness, Eye Sharpness, Eyes Open, exposure, and more. It marks Selects and Rejects, shows you why behind every call, and leaves the final decision to you. How far it's come since Early Access  February 2026: Expanded from individ

Trying to export a Video (MP4), status shows no progress at all for a long time. I have tried a 1 seconds video, its the same. I can still work on other files in the library. I have also export an image file to the same folder, while the video files is still in export process, the image files successfully exported.       Below is System info  Lightroom Classic version: 14.2 [ 202502071718-3869eef7 ]License: Creative CloudLanguage setting: en-THOperating system: Mac OS 15Version: 15.3.2 [24D81]Application architecture: arm64Logical processor count: 8Processor speed: NASqLite Version: 3.36.0Built-in memory: 16,384.0 MBDedicated GPU memory used by Lightroom: 273.9MB / 10,922.6MB (2%)Real memory available to Lightroom: 16,384.0 MBReal memory used by Lightroom: 1,487.5 MB (9.0%)Virtual memory used by Lightroom: 410,782.8 MBMemory cache size: 240.3MBInternal Camera Raw version: 17.2 [ 2155 ]Maximum thread count used by Camera Raw: 5Camera Raw SIMD optimization: SSE2C

This post applies to Lightroom Classic and the Lightroom Ecosystem products. Camera Raw feedback can be found here.   Generative Remove makes it easier to remove unwanted objects and distractions with a simple gesture, even on complex backgrounds. For more accurate results, be sure to include the object's shadow in your selection and/or expand its size.    Detect Objects uses AI to find the objects underneath a brushed area. The masked areas will now appear larger than the Early Access version of this feature. You can also circle objects for quicker selection now.    We have also updated the spot selection experience to make it easier to manage variations, switch the fill type, refine the selection area, or re-generate as needed.    Batch updating is also now supported for Generative Remove spots.    Try out the latest updates and share your feedback with us here. Please also include the following details in your post:  App versi

Select a number of photos say about 200 on the film strip. auto sync on Hit auto to adjust the settings automatically. Can be done on library or develop module does not matter to the issueLightroom will adjust the settings automatically and you can go to different photos and the automatic settings would have been applied to all the photos.Now adjust one setting on one photo with auto sync on (eg. bring the vibrance or saturation down back to 0 or a different amount….in this case vibrance to -5)Browse the rest of the photos … The rest of the photos should now have auto adjustments applied + the vibrace slider to where you adjusted it manually. However when I do this other than some photos that are in immediate to left and right of the photo that was active while I did the vibrance adjustment the rest of the photos has the auto adjustments back down to 0 and the only vibrace is at -5. This seems to affect tone and vibrance saturation.. not presence (probably because auto does not affect

I recently updated my version of Lightroom and moved to the 15.4.1. since then I have a problem of AI storage. all the modifications I do (remove with AI, denoise...) do not work or are lost when I work on another photos. I tried to follow all the steps mentioned by adobe.com, but nothing works. what should I do. the message error I get is “AI Edits Storage Issue - Lightroom has encountered an issue updating AI edits. Future AI edits may not be saved and could be lost. Please contact Adobe Customer Support for troubleshooting”.Unfortunately I can not contact anyone, apart from posting a message here.What should I do? I am a professional photographer and need LRC to work. thanks a lot for your help Emilie

I was told that “when an image is opened in LRC, sometimes Adobe automatically creates a mask” and I want to know if that is correct and if so how do I detect or search for these auto created masks?