Applying rating using keyboard does not work. Ratings are only applied when mouse

[Biggles007]

When trying to apply ratings to photos, if I use the keyboard, it says the rating has been applied but the rating does not show up below the picture. If I use the the mouse, left click->apply rating, then the rating is applied.

as expected and the shows up below the photo.

Why can't you accept videos from Onedrive?

Video has be attached via video url and here:

https://youtu.be/kagKiK_bcks

[johnrellis · Accepted solution]

First, restart your computer. If the problem persists, 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.

[Biggles007]

I had to do the Lightroom preferences (reset) to get it to work.

[Happiest Camper]

I restarted the computer and reset my Preferences in LR Classic. I am culling, click the 3 on the keyboard and it says, "Set Rating to 3" over the photo, but the rating isn't being set. I also right-clicked to choose "Set Rating" and it doesn't show up then either. I've had this happen a few times, it usually stops after a bit, but this time I cannot get it to rate the photos. Any other ideas?

[viva_la_zoom]

It still isn't working for me. I restarted and reset Lightroom preferences, but the issue persists. When I manually set a rating by clicking a star, the thumbnail doesn't reflect the change, and all the other photos display the same rating—it's a complete mess. Lightroom has always been a reliable system, but this problem makes it unusable for me since I need to quickly go through pictures and rate them using the keyboard as I go.

[johnrellis]

@viva_la_zoom: "When I manually set a rating by clicking a star, the thumbnail doesn't reflect the change, and all the other photos display the same rating"

Next steps:

1. Do you have more than one photo selected? Triple check by doing the menu command Edit > Select None. With the subtly different shades of grey LR uses around thumbnails, it can be hard to tell.

2. If that doesn't help, the most effective way to see precisely what you're doing and what's going wrong is to attach a short, full-resolution screen recording (not a phone video) of the entire LR window as it misbehaves:

https://www.descript.com/blog/article/how-to-screen-record-on-windows
https://support.apple.com/guide/quicktime-player/record-your-screen-qtp97b08e666/mac

[philb86684650]

Did you get a resolution for this problem viva_la_zoom? Continually having this problem at the moment and it is making Lightroom Classic unusable. I've restarted, reset, trashed preferences multiple times and the problem of intermittent failure of the rating system persists. 

[david_8961]

Agree.  I just spent a bunch of time trying to set ratings and they don't show up.  So much for Lightroom improvements" -- new software has bugs!