Alternative to Lightroom?

[waymond smith]

Are there an GOOD alternatives to Lightroom Classic? With the the "recent upgrade", I'm unable to work on my images. Lightroom continues to crash no matter how many time s I unistall and reinstall it.

Device name Photography
Processor Intel(R) Xeon(R) E-2176M CPU @ 2.70GHz 2.71 GHz
Installed RAM 32.0 GB (31.8 GB usable)
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[Per Berntsen]

The majority of issues people are having with LrC are GPU related, and reinstalling rarely fixes anything.

Please go to Help > System info, click the Copy button and paste in a reply here.

[waymond smith]

What exactly are we to look for involving the GPU?

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[dj_paige]

What features of LrC are you looking for in an alternative?

[waymond smith]

I'm looking for a program than will not constantly crash. I've looked at
other programs, however they have a steep learning curve.

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[Ian Lyons]

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If running a virus checker, then make sure that you have exxcluded the LrC catalog, previews, etc.

[Bergischer Löwe]

Not a bad idea, to exclude LrC from the virus checker - it significantly improved the stability of Lightroom 13.3.1

[Ian Lyons]

Good news that it helped, and thanks for letting us know.

[Bergischer Löwe]

I have excluded the following directories:

c:\Users\UserName\Pictures\Lightroom\
c:\Users\UserName\Pictures\Lightroom\Lightroom Catalog-v13-3.lrcat-data\
c:\Users\UserName\Pictures\Lightroom\Lightroom Catalog-v13-3 Sync.lrdata\
c:\Users\UserName\Pictures\Lightroom\Lightroom Catalog-v13-3 Smart Previews.lrdata\
c:\Users\UserName\Pictures\Lightroom\Lightroom Catalog-v13-3 Previews.lrdata\
c:\Users\UserName\Pictures\Lightroom\Lightroom Catalog-v13-3 Helper.lrdata\
c:\Users\UserName\Pictures\Lightroom\Backups\

c:\Users\UserName\AppData\Local\Adobe\CameraRaw\Cache2\
c:\Users\UserName\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\

Are these all? Or have I forgotten any directories?

[Conrad_C]

The best solution seems to be to resolve the crash by isolating the cause. Lightroom Classic does not constantly crash for most people (if it did, all of us would stop using it), so it’s likely that the crashing is specific to your configuration. I personally have not seen Lightroom Classic crash in a long time, in fact I can’t remember the last time it crashed.

The problem with rushing off to an alternative is that if the cause of the crash is in that specific system, it might end up happening with alternative applications too.

Also, a lot of Lightroom Classic alteratives are not that hard to use. To pick the right alternative you just have to decide what parts of Lightroom Classic you like the most, because the real problem with the alternatives is, very few of them cover everything Lightroom Classic can do. Some alternatives are great raw processors, some are great organizers, some are great with metadata, some have AI features, but few offer features in all of those areas like Lightroom Classic does. Do you need printing, do you need plug-ins, etc.

[waymond smith]

I have tried to isolate the cause! Updated all drivers, updated Windows 11,
reinstalled Lightroom ver13.3, The problem is with Lightroom version 13.3!
Others are having similar issues!!! The problem is with Adobe!!!

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[ericd84385284]

Hi everyone,

Same things here, 13.3 is too buggy.

Right click sometime stops working.

It takes 30 seconds for a star rating or rejected flag to be applied.

Synchronisation takes ages, 10 by 10 images.

All started with 13.3 release, and now that I have added too many images to my catalog, i cannot rollback to previous one 😞

Please release a fix

[waymond smith]

If you have not made any edits to your images that use features in version
13.3, you can do what I did, install version 13.0 of Lightroom, this
resolved my issues with the progarm.

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[ericd84385284]

Hi, thanks a lot. 

Solved my issues right away.

will stick to 13.3 for a bit of time

[bajanstefan18]

Love that you posted this on the lightroom forums lol

[bajanstefan18]

For what it's worth, I had to go back to 13.3.0 becuase even my 16 inch M2 Max full spec macbook was a jittery mess on 13.3.1.