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andreasb12603241
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October 30, 2024
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  • October 30, 2024
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Hey,

For some time now my program memory in Lightroom Classic has been filling up - slowly and steadily up to about 80 or 100 GB! After that the program crashes. I have saved the current version of Lightroom. I use a Macbook M1 pro, 16 GB memory. Operating system Sequoia 15.01

What can I do?

Greetings Andreas

 

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    Rikk Flohr_Photography
    Community Manager
    Rikk Flohr_PhotographyCommunity Manager
    Community Manager
    February 13, 2025

    Greetings all, 

     

    A new update for Adobe Photography Products has been released.  The February updates contain an update for this issue. 

    If you do not see the update in your Creative Cloud Application, you can refresh it by hitting [Ctrl/Cmd]+[Alt/Opt]+[ R ].

    Note: It may take up to 24 hours for your update to be available in your Creative Cloud app.

     

    Thank you for being so patient.

    Rikk Flohr: Adobe Photography Org
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      NormLevin
      New Participant
      November 7, 2024

      Can someone interpret this crash log and help me diagnose the issue? LRC hangs just about every time I run it.

       

       

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      iltb2000
      Known Participant
      November 10, 2024

      I have had the same problem when I try to import from my iPhone.  Sometimes when I just plug my iPhone into my MacBook Pro laptop with LR running, and as it tries to begin an import session, the memory consumption goes up to 90 or 100GB in just a minute or two before crashing.  I've gotten to the point where I just monitor memory and kill LR when it shoots above 30 or 40GB, and retry various combinations of LR restart, laptop reboot and iPhone reboot until something works.  I can supply info if desired.

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      MandoMatic
      Known Participant
      October 30, 2024

      Same here. I have to not run LIghtroom if I want to use my computer for other tasks.

      Rikk Flohr_Photography
      Community Manager
      Rikk Flohr_PhotographyCommunity Manager
      Community Manager
      October 30, 2024

      @andreasb12603241  I've located your crash report. Thank you for submitting the report!

      I am checking with the Classic team on this. Please stand by. 

      Rikk Flohr: Adobe Photography Org
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      Mark26325167cxa3
      New Participant
      October 31, 2024

      Happening in the Windows 11 operating system as well. Using Lightroom Classic V14.0.1.

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      Toro-2222
      New Participant
      October 30, 2024

      I had just the same issue, and were struggelig for a long time. 

      I did all the tricks in the book, that I could find. 

      To check if the same issue is whats causing your memory leak, try with a newly created empty library. 

       

      If this is working without the memory gobbling, import your prior library into this new one.. (Or start another new) .. 

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      andreasb12603241Author
      New Participant
      November 1, 2024

      That really seems to work. I created a new catalog and then imported the old catalog. It took a long time, but the system is currently running stable. Hopefully it stays that way. Thank you for the tip.

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        Toro-2222
        New Participant
        November 1, 2024

        You are very welcome, I am very happy it helped you. 

         

         

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