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how to prevent LR 8 to be always on top

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February 9, 2019
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with all software on windows 10 that i work i'm able to permanently switch between applications, i just need to use alt+tab and i can easily open another application over the one i'm using. unfortunately on LR 8 i only can do this for a few minutes of use, then it stays always on top, to switches between applications i'm forced to minimize LR. i really hate this and i'm not being able to find a way to configure LR 8 to permanently accept to open other application over it. it's horrible! like almost everything else on LR 8.

i never had any problem using LR 6, it was like any other application, working perfectly all the time, but LR 8 is completely different than everything else i ever used in windows, including all other adobe software that i used in the last 20 years.

i was always able to configure and use all adobe applications, but with LR 8 i really need a lot of help. sometimes it feels like the thing is incompatible with windows 10, it's so weird.

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GoldingD

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And let me restate the following, as I think you really need to get in touch with ADOBE and bring this issue up.Following from a canned bit of text I am keeping for such situations

__________________________________________________________________________________

Please post a report in the official Adobe feedback forum, where Adobe wants all bug reports posted:

Lightroom Classic CC | Photoshop Family Customer Community .

Adobe product developers read everything there but rarely participate in this forum, which is primarily user-to-user. Be sure to include the link to any sample file and your System Information from the menu command Help > System Info. (At least down to just past the Plug-ins)

(Simply posting a link to this thread will make it more likely Adobe won't pay attention.)

You can should also contact adobe as follows:

FAQ: How do I contact Adobe Support?

PaulgiAuthor

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i don't have much time now.

i have all my work delayed because i made the mistake to buy a LR 8 plan.

i've been completely unable to work straight in the last weeks and now it got worst.

i'm pretty sure that there are no problem at all with any of my hardware. it's all tested and it's running amazingly with all my other software that uses much more resources than LR.

today i was able to run LR 8 for a while, but after the reset i lost something very very important to me and i couldn't get it back to work.

after i work on a folder i always leave it with a specific filter with some star fixed, and the filters are different on all folders, that's how i can track what i already did. after the reset i lost it completely, now the filters only work globally and it seems impossible to make it particular again.

LR 8 is really a total waste of time and money. everything works great on LR 6. i just regret i started paying the damn rent to adobe for a damaged software when i have a perpetual license on a better tool.

thanks a lot for your help. you tried a lot and i'm very thankful. but in all this time not for one single time anyone from adobe tried to help, i really don't want to talk to adobe about a piece of software that is now ruining my work.

GoldingD

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Scrolling back thru previous reply's, and having some experience the last day or so with issues people are having with the Enhance Details feature added in LR Classic CC v 8.2.. It has occurred to me to point you towards the following Adobe article on GPU issues. Read the whole thing. Part is making sure your LR points to DirectX (done), part is updated drivers (a new one exists, but that was probably not the issue) . But part of it is to make sure the GPU is not going kaput.

Adobe Lightroom GPU Troubleshooting and FAQ

GoldingD

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Pretty much out of ideas. One thing to consider, although probably not until Monday is to contact Adobe

FAQ: How do I contact Adobe Support?

Now in prep for that, perhaps add to what you have already stated, some screenshots. Pictures are worth a thousand words.

give a step by step itemized read thru of what you do, what happens, show what happens, what you attempt, what happens.......

heck, as you do that, and post in your discussion, perhaps a forum member will go agggg, I did not understand...perhaps I am attempting to answer the wrong question, etc.

When you contact Adobe, you could then provide this discussion as reference.

you might want to start the comment with nice bold words “HEY ADOBE HERE” but add a sentence like “To forum members, yes I understand Adobe does not normally read this forum, using this comment as a posting to reference in my chat with Adobe” (that will hopefully prevent a member from stating..thus is a Internet forum nit a support page...etc)

frig, too many words..

PaulgiAuthor

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ok. thanks for the help

but i don't think that i can show LR always on top and running slow in a screenshot

GoldingD

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Cool,

ohh, still stumbling on little clues via google, Now part if this one is a MAC related, but part us not. Both a reminder of a keyboard shortcut to minimize, and a setting mod (view option)

https://www.lightroomqueen.com/community/threads/a-silly-question-cant-figure-out-how-to-minimize-lr-cc.28520/

and

https://lightroomers.com/missing-minimize-maximize-close-buttons/18/

GoldingD

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Oh, and how is your Windows taskbar configured, always visible? That would give you another way to click on the program running you want up front.

PaulgiAuthor

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yes, the taskbar is always visible, but it also doesn't work when LR 8 gets always on top.

i can open anything from the taskbar but everything opens in the background.

when LR 8 gets automatically on top, the only way to fix it is closing and opening LR again.

PaulgiAuthor

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Very odd, I sometimes get something like that on my MAC Book, not my PC.

Under the concept of why not, have you considered resetting the Lightroom oreference file?

https://lightroomers.com/replacing-the-lightroom-preference-file/745/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bARt-hoCc2Q

https://helpx.adobe.com/lightroom/kb/preference-file-and-other-file-locations---lightroom-6.html

https://helpx.adobe.com/lightroom/kb/recover-catalog-images-resetting-lightroom.html

i did the lightroom reset yesterday, in the end it surprisingly updated the lightroom to build 1204643.

i have no idea if it fixed anything, because now the lightroom crashes and closes frequently when i try to drag and drop something.

my system has everything up to date, i don't have any other software with problems, and i don't even remember to have this kind of crashes in any application in the last 20 years.

i profoundly hate LR 8, is clearly the worst piece of software i ever used or the thing is not compatible with my system.

i'm going to try to move back to LR 6, it was the last stable version known of LR, and in time i think that it might be safer for me to start looking for an alternative to LR 6.

this is going nowhere. i never saw anything like this. photoshop is running perfectly, like any other software i have installed.

i quit.

GoldingD

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Please accomplish the following, it might provide a clue as to LR slowing to a crawl, or it may not.

In Lightroom, click on Help, click on System Information, click on Copy. And paste that into a reply.

PaulgiAuthor

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