LightRoom Classic Generative AI Remove Tool Not Saving Edits or Reverting After Finishing a Photo

[brendardzphoto]

Hello Everyone,

I´m currently having issues with my Lightroom Classic.

I´m using the generative AI to edit out backgrounds and other details in my wedding photographs. However, when I use the develop tab, and edit several hundreds of pictures at a time, I sometimes go back to a picture to check it out. Turns out a lot of my edits are not being saved for some reason. I´ve seen this happen when going back to pictures or when trying to export them through the Pic-Time plugin to save them in a gallery at Pictime. 

The generative AI keeps asking me to update the changes made, but why is it just not saving what it already did?? "Some Remove settings need to be updated" keeps showing up in many of the pictures I did and the experience is just not consistent throughout all the editing. I´m wondering maybe i have some kind of setting not set up properly but this is annoying and I need to rework many pictures. 

Another thing I´ve noticed is if I export them 1 by 1 the settings tend to save, but when I´m doing hundreds of pictures, or export them several at a time, the edits are not saved and the "Remove Settings needing to be updated" shows up again.

Any help is appreciated!  I´m using a MacBookPro 2.6 i7 amd radeon pro 5300M 16gb mhz ddr4 sonoma14.5

[brendardzphoto]

 As you can see here, I updated 7 (SEVEN!!) times, I just wanted to remove a waiter that was in the background. While seeing the picture, I could see the waiter removed every single time, but the changes would not save. Is there some kind of setting I need to check to make sure those changes are saved properly? I would imagine not, since if they´re being shown in the history, it means that the changes ARE occurring and are being registered properly within the application and system and into the picture. Any ideas on how to fix this?  

Also, when editing pictures and using the app, some pictures may show signs of being ´corrupted´, like light streaks of cyan, yellow, red, white. If I close and reopen the application, the picture where i saw this is completely fine again. It´s weird, I´m wondering if I´m doing something wrong within the app. Thanks!

[JohanElzenga]

AI masks (and I assume also AI remove) is saved in 'Catalogname.lrcat-data', an extra file next to the catalog file. We have seen reports where AI masks could not be saved because 'Catalogname.lrcat-data' was locked for some unknown reason. There is a long thread in this forum about this problem. Perhaps this is the same issue. What you could try is remove 'Catalogname.lrcat-data' from the catalog folder, so Lightroom will rebuild it. It does mean you will have to update the Remove Settings once again, but hopefully then this will 'stick'.

[lucaGhedini]

I have the same problem. 
30+ hours of works wasted. the idea to remove the file does not work. it seems the the problem aris also if you simply wait enough. i.e. leave LCR open -> go to lunch -> all work is gone! 
even worse: if you just "update " as suggested in the ai panel the results produced are not the same...
The same promlem on operation with the mask. 
 (i'm using the last version of LRC on m2 Mac with osx 14.x)

[lucaGhedini]

just an experiment (on mac)

1. close LCR
2. select Catalogname.lrcat-data
3. show packge content
4. remove "LOCK"

now seems it's work

[lucaGhedini]

i have the sme problems. 

just an experiment (on mac)

1. close LCR
2. select Catalogname.lrcat-data
3. show packge content
4. remove "LOCK"

now seems it's work... 

[WG Photo]

Thank you for this!  I just started editing wedding photos and was 80 photos in when I decided to update Lightroom Classic to the latest version of 14.  This was the first time I had this issue and what you suggested fixed this issue for me.  

HUGE THANK YOU!!!!! ^_^

[GoldingD]

You are attempting this in batch?

[brendardzphoto]

Hi! I am not editing things out in batch, no. I check and edit every single picture out individually, including removing people several times for similar pictures like the one shown in my second comment! However, I am exporting into Pic-Time in batch, if that´s what you meant.  Hope this helps 

[Herman38347346n04d]

I'm running into the same issue. We used the AI removal tool to remove a whole bunch of tapes in the background with 2 days worth of shots. After moving the catalogue files and exporting them, all the remove settings need to be updated, and there is no way to update all. The update AI function in Library mode only updates the masks, but not removals... so I'm painfully cliking them one by one this moment, and gonna be here for hours until Adobe fixes this.

[terencew23591293]

I'm now finding that the generative AI tool is not working at all.  After trying multiple times with multiple images I give up...  It seems to be a waste of time trying.   

[czlowiekadrian]

I have the same problem. It stop working.

[JohanElzenga]

Check the opacity settings of the brush. It seems the update sometimes sets it to (close to) zero. Set it to 100.