Lightroom Classic crashing on import

Forum|Forum|4 years ago
January 4, 2022
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Lightroom Classic keeps crashing on import. Everything works well and quickly in the program until I try to import. Usually the file>import photos and videos menu makes it stall out and finally crash. Occasionally it will get as far as the "select a source" screen where it stalls and crashes before I can click anything there. I'm running 11.1 on Windows 10. I've tried all the usual fixes - restarted the pc, restarted the program, closed all Adobe apps, etc.

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JohnMDunn

Participant

I'm having the same issue, tried the suggestions and LR goes grey ever time I click on add photos. I have tried to fix this for far too long and after my trip I'll be trying alternatives.

dj_paige

Legend

I'm having the same issue, tried the suggestions and LR goes grey ever time I click on add photos. I have tried to fix this for far too long and after my trip I'll be trying alternatives.

So are you asking for help? It doesn't sound like it, to me it sounds like you are just telling us you won't be using LrC any more.

AxelMatt

Community Expert

The first thing that you should try is to switch off the GPU support from the Lightroom preferences and check if that helps to fix the issue.

Go to Lightroom > Preferences > Performance tab > Uncheck "Use Graphics Processor" > Restart Lightroom.

https://helpx.adobe.com/lightroom-classic/kb/lightroom-gpu-faq.html#troubleshooting

https://helpx.adobe.com/lightroom-classic/kb/troubleshoot-gpu.html

Another step is to try to reset the Lightroom preferences.

https://www.lightroomqueen.com/how-do-i-reset-lightrooms-preferences/

Do you get an error message? If yes, please post the exact message or an screenshot.

My System: Intel i7-8700K - 64GB RAM - NVidia Geforce RTX 3060 - Windows 11 Pro 25H2 -- LR-Classic 15 - Photoshop 27 - Nik Collection 8 - PureRAW 5 - Topaz Photo

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michaels50597485Author

Participating Frequently

My apologies, it's been a couple of weeks since I've been able to get back to this. I've tried both of your suggestions and neither helped the issue. The only error message I get occasionally is the generic Windows one: "Adobe Lightroom Classic is not responding. If you close the program, you might lose information." Then the option to close or wait for the program to respond. Sometimes I have to go to task manager instead and shut it down that way. I've let it sit for up to 10 minutes to see if there would be a response or a change.

AxelMatt

Community Expert

Is your system up-to-date? Do you have installed all available updatres and patches for your hardware drivers and operating system?

Create a new user account on your machine and logged in with this account. Check the import in LR.

Please create new catalog and try the import.

My System: Intel i7-8700K - 64GB RAM - NVidia Geforce RTX 3060 - Windows 11 Pro 25H2 -- LR-Classic 15 - Photoshop 27 - Nik Collection 8 - PureRAW 5 - Topaz Photo

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