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Thay.j
Thay.j
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May 1, 2023
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Can't click anything in Lightroom after a while

  • May 1, 2023
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I can`t click on anything in Lighroom after it`s been running for a while. Everything is working perfectly and then out of nothing it just dont let me click anymore.
I can use keyboard shortcuts, highlight picures and so on, but cannot click at all. 

Closing LR and opening again helps but it`s really starting to annoy me since sometimes it happens after 2 minutes working, other times after 30/40 min. It`s doesnt have a pattern. 😞

Everything else works normally. This only happens in LR.
I`m using version 11.5 of Ligthroom (Don`t want to update because other versions are working too sow for me).

Not sure if all the info below is relevant, but here it goes:

Operating system: Mac OS 11
Version: 11.7.6 [20G1231]
Application architecture: x64
Logical processor count: 8
Processor speed: 2,2GHz
SqLite Version: 3.36.0
Built-in memory: 16.384,0 MB
Real memory available to Lightroom: 16.384,0 MB
Real memory used by Lightroom: 1.792,5 MB (10,9%)
Virtual memory used by Lightroom: 10.837,5 MB
Memory cache size: 293,9MB

Graphics Processor Info:
Metal: Intel Iris Pro Graphics


Thank you in advance!

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Thay.j
Thay.jAuthor
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May 1, 2023

PS: Read someone having similar issue with this a while back, and as suggested on the topic I turned my graphics processor off - didnt help. And also Opmitized Catalog which didnt help either...

johnrellis
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May 1, 2023

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1. When LR gets in this state, right-click the LrC icon in the Mac dock. Do you see more than one window listed in grey in the menu?  E.g. like this:

 

If so, provide a full-resolution screenshot (not a phone pic) of what you see.  Perhaps somehow a command that displays a dialog (Enhance in the example above) is getting invoked and the dialog is hiding behind LR's main window (it happens, rarely).

 

2. 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.

 

Thay.j
Thay.jAuthor
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May 3, 2023

Hi John! 
Unfortunately resetting LR preferences did not help.. 
My LR did it again exactly one minute after resetting. 

And as for the window at this state, I only see one..

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