JPEG Edits Disappear After Update — History Intact, Sliders Reset

[julesmiranda]

After updating to Lightroom Classic 14.4, I opened my working catalog and discovered that edits to many JPEG files had disappeared. Here's what I experienced:

• The History panel still shows all my previous adjustments

• But the Develop sliders are all reset, and the image preview is unedited

• This only affected JPEGs, not RAW files

• My catalog had been functioning perfectly before the update

I confirmed this is a 14.4 issue by:

• Opening a backup catalog in 14.3.1 — all edits displayed correctly

• Returning to the most recent catalog (used in 14.4), the edits were still invisible

• Even importing metadata into the edited files didn’t fully restore them in the 14.4 catalog

This is extremely disruptive. I'm a professional photographer, and this issue caused me to:

• Waste hours trying to recover edits

• Lose recent work from the broken catalog

• Downgrade my software just to get things working again, and lost edits between my last backup and the broken catalog

System Info:

• Lightroom Classic 14.4 (Build: 202506051112-5918896a)

• macOS 14.7.6 (Apple M3)

• JPEG files

• Catalog stored on external SSD

Please investigate and issue a fix as soon as possible. I also believe some form of compensation is appropriate given the time lost and the impact on my professional work.

[Sameer K]

Hey, @julesmiranda. Welcome to the Lightroom Community. I understand this must be frustrating. I'll help you figure this out. 

Please update to Lightroom Classic v14.4 again and try this:

1 - Create a new catalog by holding the Opt key at the launch of Lightroom Classic.

2 - Go to File > Import from catalog > target your old catalog. Proceed with merging the previous catalog into the newly made, internal storage-based catalog. For more help via video-based steps, check here. See https://adobe.ly/3NTC9Rv

Let me know how it goes. Thanks!
Sameer K

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[dj_paige]

One possibility is that you have (perhaps accidentally) two catalogs, you edited the photos in one catalog and then upgraded the other catalog.

Here is a recent example of a user who had two catalogs without realizing it, and he insisted he had edited the photos but now saw no edits on those photos after the upgrade. https://community.adobe.com/t5/lightroom-classic-discussions/all-my-lrc-edits-seem-to-have-disappear...