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January 13, 2023
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Activate all control panels in the Develop module?

  • January 13, 2023
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A very mundane question for the LRC experts.
After I was able to put my old LRC database from 2018 back into operation and update it without any problems and everything is running smoothly so far, I have an operator question in the development module.

There are my control panels as shown in the screenshot

https://www.dropbox.com/s/py1fpx5ao3fzp4h/Bedienfelder.pdf?dl=0

always deactivated. I always have to enable them all individually first and am looking for a way to enable that for the entire filmstrip or even the entire database and so far can’t find a way to do so. The help only refers to the fact that you can activate or deactivate the control panels using the small switch, but this is unnecessarily time-consuming.

 

BTW.: I just created a new empty catalog and all panels are disabled there as well. 

Oliver

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Correct answer riwo.dot

When you have (say) 10 images selected, with AutoSync active: if you use the toggle switch for one of the Develop panels - LrC brings up a message saying (e.g.) "Toggle Split Toning updated for 10 images". 

 

That suggests a fix:

 

after backing up Catalog for safety, click on one image and turn off all of its panels.

Select a lot of other images also, keeping this chosen image as the active one.

Turn on AutoSync at bottom of Develop panels.

Toggle all of the panels ON for the active image.

Result: any images selected with any panels in a disabled state, will get those panels re-enabled accordingly - appearing as a new History step - shown twice for some reason (shrug).

Any of their panels which were already in an enabled state, will silently remain so.

Remember to then switch off AutoSync, if you do not normally work with this option active.


What I don't understand at the moment is that if I have synced the disabled panels to other photos (without being aware of it), why can't I sync the enabled panels back, because that's what I tried first, but without success.

But I have to do the instruction of you with Autosync once step by step on a copy of the database. I am curious whether the übwr Autosync then works, which does not work with the normal synchronization.

 

Oliver

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Ian Lyons
Community Expert
Ian LyonsCommunity Expert
Community Expert
January 13, 2023

Before resetting preferences.

 

From your description and screenshot, it would seem that you have enabled Solo mode. To disable Solo mode you will need to right-mouse click on any of the panel headers to open a context menu. When context menu opens - click on 'Solo Mode' to disable the checkmark. I've attached a screenshot as an additional aid.

 

If above doesn't solve the problem, then go ahead with resetting prefernces as John suggests.

 

 

 

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    riwo.dotAuthor
    Inspiring
    January 13, 2023

    Solo mode isn't the problem, I've tried all that and whether it's enabled or not doesn't change anything on the panel switches.

    Unfortunately, resetting and deleting the preferences with a restart of the Mac did not help.
    Oliver

    johnrellis
    johnrellis
    Legend
    January 13, 2023

    I poked into this some more. There might be two separable issues going on:

     

    - When you go into Develop with no photo selected all the panel toggles are always off.  This explains why, when you created a new empty catalog, they were all off.   If you tested resetting preferences with the empty catalog, you wouldn't be able to observe whether resetting worked.

     

    - The setting of the toggles is saved in photo metadata in the catalog (and on disk, if you have the relevant option set).  So if all or many of your photos had been edited with the toggles off (for an as-yet unknown reason), changing the toggles on one photo won't affect the other photos.

     

    To narrow this down most efficiently, do these steps:

     

    1. Reset preferences again (using either the Preferences window or on program startup, but not deleting the .plist).

     

    2. Make a new catalog.

     

    3. Import a new JPEG into the catalog that's never before been imported into LR, and when you do the import, make sure that Apply During Import > Develop Settings is set to None (in case there was a develop preset being applied on import).   Importing a JPEG rather than a raw will ensure no camera-raw default preset is applied on import. 

     

    4. Open the JPEG in Develop.  Are the toggles on or off?

     

     

    johnrellis
    johnrellis
    Legend
    January 13, 2023

    Try resetting LR's preferences:
    https://www.lightroomqueen.com/articles-page/how-do-i-reset-lightrooms-preferences/


    LR sometimes soils its preferences file, and resetting it can fix all sorts of wonky behavior. That article explains how to restore the old preferences if resetting doesn't help.

    R
    riwo.dotAuthor
    Inspiring
    January 13, 2023

    Hello,

    I have now reset the preferences three times according to the instructions. Once in the program, once at startup with the Option key on the Mac and then deleted the PLIST files. Unfortunately, all this did not lead to success. The switches are still deactivated and I always have to activate them manually. Quite strange.

    Oliver

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