P: Arrow keys no longer advance to next photo in filmstrip in Develop

[RyanFunkPhotography]

When I use "+" key to go up on the exposure slider it stops my arrow keys from being able to move left and right on the film strip. If I press "+" it does its job and makes the slider go up but it makes it so I can't go left and right using the film strip. However, if I press "-" it works fine and I can still select the next and previous images with the arrow keys.

I've gone back to 13.4 and it works fine so it's clearly the update is the problem. 

[levindenboer]

i have the exact same issue! 

[johnrellis]

@KaylaM67, see here for two other workarounds while waiting for Adobe to fix this:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/lightroom-classic-bugs/p-arrow-keys-no-longer-advance-to-next-photo-i...

[Yvonne3164958472gc]

Same issue here..... Rolled back to 3.14 for now.

Using the - sign last makes the arrows work again (after using the + sign which seems to cause the bug). Really dislike to add the Ctrl button to be able to use the arrow....

[johnrellis]

@Yvonne3164958472gc, you can also use the - and = keys on the top row of the keyboard instead of the numeric keypad.

[Yvonne3164958472gc]

Yeah, thank you, I have read that, but as I am working on a laptop, those keys are much harder to reach (blindly).

[rayo70575913]

Yes it seems to be a bug in the latest release from LR

if you want to use the numeric + & - rather than the ones next to the delete key, then click - and it will activate the arrows again. COME ON ADOBE, fix this bug already! 

[vlasios]

As i see its not only me that i noticed this very big problem with the left/right arrows keys to go to the next photo.

Only people doing weddings and have 2000 and more photos at the filmstrip can understand how huge is this problem for us.

Adobe has to fix this immediately, it very very difficult to work and we loosing more time at the proccecing.

[Rikk Flohr: Photography]

Greetings all, 

A new update for Adobe Photography Products has been released.  The 13.5.1 update contains an update for this issue. 

If you do not see the update in your Creative Cloud Application, you can refresh it by hitting [Ctrl/Cmd]+[Alt/Opt]+[ R ].

Note: It may take up to 24 hours for your update to be available in your Creative Cloud app.

Thank you for being so patient.

[vlasios]

Unfortunately I can't see this update. I have the photography plan of
Adobe, lightroom classic and this update 13.5.1 is not available!!

[default24879512ezuyzc]

Finally! The 13.5.1 update resolved the issue for me! 🙂

[johnrellis]

@vlasios: "this update 13.5.1 is not available!!"

Adobe employee Rikk Flohr posted above that, "It may take up to 24 hours for your update to be available in your Creative Cloud app."

[RAMA KRISHNA33395802el1q]

Develop module navigation from photo to photo used to be left arrow and right arrow. Now it is changed to cmd+left arrow, cmd+right arrow in mac.

This makes user to use both hands to navigate to photo which is major issue if i am using another device on other hand.  Please revert back to use just left arrow and right arrow to navigate to previous and next photo.

[mollye_8323]

As frustrating as the problem is, so is the solution: it's a classic "turn it off and on again" fix. (All hail "IT Crowd.") This arrow key problem happens to me periodically, usually after a bunch of new uploads, and each time I get upset before remembering LR just needs to refresh or whatever. Let me know if that helps anyone here!

[philoops]

I'm also experiencing the issue, it seems to happen randomly when I'm in develop module (windows or mac). 

After hitting < (the - on french azerty keyboard to lower the current setting) the left/right arrows works again. This is extremely frustrating. 

Currently using LR v14.1.1 on a mac. So no, this issue has not been fixed in 13.5.1.

[Conrad_C]

Yes, I still see the problem below in 14.1.1.

In addition to your workaround, I’ve noticed that it seems to be related to a loss of proper window focus. Because when it happens to me, to get it to work again I do one of the following workarounds that puts keyboard focus back on the main Lightroom Classic application window: 

Click in the main application window. 

or

Switch to another application, and back to Lightroom Classic. (I use the Mac shortcut Command-Tab to quickly switch out and back into the application.)

I say “main application window” partly because I’ve noticed that the problem reliably happens after I open the Secondary Window, which I use all the time. Immediately after doing that, main window shortcuts stop working, so I have to restore focus to the main application window to get the shortcuts to work again.

The above information is mostly for Adobe, in case it helps isolate what is causing this. It almost seems like the problem started after Adobe did some recoding to get HDR to work in non-Develop views in a recent release, so I wonder if that broke something with window focus.

I'm also experiencing the issue, it seems to happen randomly when I'm in develop module (windows or mac).
After hitting < (the - on french azerty keyboard to lower the current setting) the left/right arrows works again. This is extremely frustrating.
Currently using LR v14.1.1 on a mac. So no, this issue has not been fixed in 13.5.1.

By @philoops

[johnrellis]

"I'm also experiencing the issue, it seems to happen randomly when I'm in develop module (windows or mac)."

If you can figure out how to reproduce the problem reliably, that will make it much more likely Adobe will pay attention.

Note that there have always been situations in which other controls in Develop steal the focus for left and right arrow:

- On Windows, but not Mac, if you adjust a slider with the mouse, then left and right arrow will move the slider.

- If the Crop tool is open, left and right arrow will nudge the crop.

- If the Remove tool is open, it always intercepts left and right arrow, moving the current selection if one is selected.

- If the Mask tool is open and a mask or mask component is selected, it intercepts left and right arrow.

Is it possible that one of these situations is what you're observing at least some of the time?

[LittleLew]

Using LR Classic 14.1.1 on MacBook Pro 15.1.1 with 64 GB sometime in the last couple of updates I noticed two things.

First, the right arrow wouldn't advance in Develop module and oftentimes, the image had not been updated from the pruor edits.

Once I went back to Library and advanced the images, often the edit history would not be applied or there was a noticeable lag - the original raw image displaying and then the edits would be applied.  A good percentage of the time, I would have to go back and click on the history to update the image in the Develop module.

Once the edits were applied from the history, the right and left arrows worked in the develop module.

It may be that the R & L arrow problem in the Develop module is due to a disconnect in finding and applying the edit history.