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April 3, 2016
Question

P: Preparing slideshow hangs on slide # 2

  • April 3, 2016
  • 29 replies
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This has been happening repeatedly in previous versions and hasn't been fixed in LR 6.5 (standalone). 
Steps
1.  Select some slides.  I'm using a filter to select slides that are 4 stars or higher.  There are 16 of them in the folder that match.
2. Go to slidshow and hit "play"
3.  The dialog box comes up "Preparing Slideshow" and below Preparing preview for slide #2.  It mostly hangs on # 2 but sometimes a different slide.  If I cancel and choose a different folder with no filters (all images) and hit "play" it hangs on # 2 again.
4.  BTW...if I hit the -> buttone (play) below the images, instead of the "Play" button in the right hand lower corner, it'll play.
5.  Also, based on some other input, I've tried turning off/on the GPU. No difference.

29 replies

Participant
March 23, 2025

Well, it's 2025. and I just found this post searching for a solution for this specific issue. The workaround worked for me. 

Participant
February 27, 2024

I am running into the same error

JohanElzenga
Community Expert
Community Expert
February 27, 2024

It's better not to post a "me too" message in an old thread that discussed a Lightroom version that was discontinued years ago. Because this thread is about an unsupported version, nobody at Adobe will look at it. Post a new thread, describing the problem as it occurs with the current version of Lightroom Classic.

 

-- Johan W. Elzenga
yuliadavis
Participant
February 21, 2024

It's 2/21/24 and the bug is still there in LR Classic.

Participant
May 13, 2023

Well it's back to the future in 2023! This bug is back - was it ever fixed?

Windows 11.

with LRC v12.3

Inspiring
June 19, 2020
Still broke "Zoom to Fill Frame" in 2020
Inspiring
September 15, 2019
I've got the same problem, but turning off zoom to fill doesn't always fix it. I'm now stuck on slide 1 and zoom to fill frame is turned off. Any ideas please.
Participant
July 16, 2019
It is 2019, and we still have to turn off "Zoom to Fill Frame".  Why can't this be fixed?


Participant
August 20, 2018
Me too the same problem.....Why the Cancel is not working??. I have no other option to exit the application now...Wasting time...
Inspiring
April 10, 2018
It is 2018, and we still have to turn off "Zoom to Fill Frame". Why can't this be fixed?
Inspiring
April 5, 2017
Disabling "Zoom to Fill Frame" fixes this for me.