Can't click anything in Lightroom after a while

[Thay.j]

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!

[Thay.j]

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...

[John R Ellis]

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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]

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..

[John R Ellis]

Strange.  Try temporarily disabling all plugins:

1. Do File > Plug-in Manager.

2. Select each plugin in turn, and in the Status panel, click Disable.

3. Restart LR.

[Thay.j]

Still nothing.. I disabled plugins, restarted LR, worked a little bit more and then it did that again.. 😞 

[Thay.j]

Been having the same issue all this time but for a while it didn`t happen so often during the day. But now something changed.. since the past two days it`s happening every time I compare two or more photos on teh secundary window. I`m able to close the window but once it comes back to the main LR one it all stops. Only keyboard works.

This is really driving me crazy and I`m not updating my LR because for me, this is the one that works best.. I just wish there was something I could do. 

Or if anyone has tips of another LR version which doesn`t freeze so much, because the last version was so heavy that it took a while even to open a photo when culling. 

[lifter035]

When this happens to me I can actually click, but it looks like click hotspot where mouse click is active is shifted vertically (maybe a bit horizontally as well). You need to click above of where you think you should click.

Adobhe please fix this it's really annoying I have to restart LR Classic to fix it

[Thay.j]

Really annoying that this keeps happening! I have to restant LR all the time for more than a year now! 
It happens every time I open images to compare them or sometimes when I sync edits.. ugh.