Stacking not working with Edited PSD/TIFs

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December 20, 2023
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I have been using Lightroom (Classic) for over decade and have had the same workflow:

Work in lightroom for the selects
From Lightroom, Edit in Photoshop... Make Edits. Save..
Go back to lightroom and see my CR2 and PSD file side by side so I can see / work with the original and the edited version.

Somehow this is no longer working... The edited images do show up in my catalog (in "All Photographs") but in the folder view and with my images, they are not showing up.

I have hunted around for settings (Preferences - Auto Stack = Yes, Filters, sorts, etc.) and everything is set 'correctly' and nothing has changed from my previous catalog / workflow but for some reason they aren't showing up.

It's really maddening and it _feels_ like a bug, but I don't see anyone else reporting it.

Lightroom Classic Version: 13.1

Mac OS Version: 14.2 (I do see the issues for that update but I don't see THIS issue as one of them..)

Any help and or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Update: Just upgraded to 14.2.1 and tested it out and still behaving the same way... Sigh.

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JohanElzenga

Community Expert

If the edited image shows up in 'All Photographs', then it must be in some folder as well. But maybe it's in another folder than the original photo. The 'capitalisation error' can do that. So do the following: in 'All Photographs' select the edited photo, and then choose 'Photo - Go to folder in Library'. Lightroom will show you in which folder the photo is stored, so you can see if this is the same folder as the original (the way it should be), or in another folder.

-- Johan W. Elzenga

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davco9200Author

Participating Frequently

THank you for your response but nope that's not it. See attched screengrab where you can see where I tested .tif and .psd for the image Icarus-135 - I've overlayed the finder folder with the Library view of the folder. I took a screen grab of the 'All Images' too...

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richardplondon

Community Expert

Ah thanks - that's my error then. Apologies to Johan! I have been googling for the 'definitive' way to solve the capitalisation bug - (I'm backing up the catalog now)... If folks can point me to something - I haven't been able to find a help page from Adobe on this... Is there a way I can prevent it going forward since it's jsut a few images and live with those or do I have to go through the whole CapFix move?

(Also, shame Adobe - this is 2023 - to have this kind of issue where path capitalisation is an issue... I work in software and this is a bit of a rookie bug.)

By @davco9200

You need to use the whole procedure, or accept that you see two folders. It doesn't do any harm not to solve this:

https://www.lightroomqueen.com/capitalization-catalog-error/

And for your info: this is not Adobe's fault. It is caused by the fact that MacOS (and Windows too) is case-insensitive, so it disregards the capitalization in a folder name, while Lightroom is case-sensitive so it (correctly!) sees that there are actually two folders with the same name (but different capitalization).

I do wonder if the design decision might have been better pragmatically, to simply have LrClassic Catalogs be case-insensitive - since that's what the file system is, that they are referencing. At the very least, as an option. But I can't imagine a use case that requires case sensitivity. Two differently capitalised but otherwise same named folders OR files can never exist side by side on disk, anyway - no circumstance could arise where such needed to be told apart.

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