Sync Settings not working

[dphershman]

I'm having an issue with synch settings all of a sudden.  Making changes in one file, I should be able to select another file and click the 'sync settings' to get the other files to have the same settings.  As of today, doing so does not export those settings to the other selected file(s).    The adjustment icons appear on the selected files, but when you look at the images in 'Develop' there have in fact been no synced changes.  I've tried updating my MacOS  (10.13) and my Lightroom (2015.12).  I've even reset my preferences, all to no use.  Thanks ahead of time for help. 

[jorik17393943]

I have been having the same issues with syncing my settings to 100+ images. I haven't had any issues with just the white balance though. I tried selecting smaller groupings around 15 images and the sync seems to work just fine. Just very annoying when you have hundreds of images.

[WebEddb]

same problem. Pretty bad bug, this. Makes syncing unworkable:

Syncing JUST the crop and process version settings (sequence: copy settings, clear all, select process, select all crop, select second picture, paste settings) changes all/most develop settings in the second picture. And the settings are NOT the ones in the first picture. It does not affect all pictures. Does not seem related to WB status.

In some of the affected pictures the settings are exactly as in one of the other other pictures (but not the "source"picture): WB unchanged, Tone 0 0 0 5 +50 +25 Presence 0 0 0.

New catalog, just a few photos.

Edwin

[astrosven]

yes, same bug noticed in latest LR/ (Classic CC) - this makes editing of many images captured in same conditions impossible. Tried to sync for white balance many selected images in develop module. WB settings do not  become synced across images. The same is true when trying "copy & paste" WB settings - it does not get propagated. This is a critical bug. It worked for years before. Current Classic CC is full of bugs and performance issues.

[anssik_]

Mein Gott, I've had this problem trouble me for a month or two and it's actually just related to White Balance and that silly "As Shot" flag. First changing the white balance to something else and then syncing settings worked for me as well. Thank you!

[astrosven]

Does not work on my latest CC LR7.01version on Mac. no way to get synced white balance or other parameters - neither in library not in develop mode.

[Just Shoot Me]

https://forums.adobe.com/people/Sven+OM  wrote

Does not work on my latest CC LR7.01version on Mac. no way to get synced white balance or other parameters - neither in library not in develop mode.

There is an update to V 7.1. Install that and test.

[astrosven]

done - no change, no fix unfortunately. Is there any other way to post errors than this forum? The release notes for 7.1 mention only so few known bugs - and no words about bugs and performance issues discussed in this forum :I(

[astrosven]

I have to correct - it works as Jim said. Tested on LR7.1. Thanks

[Fine Art P]

Is there any workaround? Any way to sync white balance between images?

[diegohblack]

It still doesn't work on Windows 10, although it works on Mac.

Could it be the configuration of my PC?

[Abambo]

diegohblack  wrote

Could it be the configuration of my PC?

I doubt this to be a configuration issue.

[Jim Garrison]

Did you read the accepted answer?  You cannot sync "as shot" settings -- well, you can but it just changes the target image's setting to "as shot" (i.e. the target image's as-shot values) instead of copying the source image's numerical parameter values.

[Abambo]

https://forums.adobe.com/people/Jim+Garrison  wrote

Did you read the accepted answer?  You cannot sync "as shot" settings

My answer was correct even that I misread sync as cloud sync and not sync over a bunch of pictures. My error.

No as a work around for the error:

Set as shot, if not as shot. Change to custom.

I don't think that this is a bug. I think it is by design.

[ZappaJul]

Are you referring to 'As shot' under WB settings? (I don't know of another place). If so, I don't think this has anything to do with 'As shot' vs another white balance setting since it affects all colour settings including those generated by the user in LR (ie not jjust Temp/Tint) these are by definition not 'as shot'. I have also found it makes no difference whether WB changed from As shot to Custom once this problem starts. Even if it did, why woulkd it be by design? What's the advanatage? I think it still points to a bug because an extra step required to make a previously working feature work again is a bug, particularly if it is intermittent.

Given the variation in timeframe for people finding this probelm - e.g. dphershman reported this 10 months ago, but I've only had it a month or two - there must be some action that triggers it...I wonder what?

[diegohblack]

see my answer elsewhere on this feed about secondary displays.

[ZappaJul]

Alas it's not workiing on my Mac!

[ZappaJul]

Not working on this Mac. 

[diegohblack]

I figured it out. The pop up window was showing on the secondary display, but the secondary display was off. All I had to do was turn the secondary display on, drag the window to the display I always use, and then it was fixed forever.

[nasarullahb28009735]

Can you explain it little further.

[magpie5]

this just worked for me too, the 2nd monitor thing, thankyou!!!!

[Toni999]

sync settings inn LR classic also not working here. neither autosync nor sync nor copy/paste settings does work properly, it will apply settings to some photos and not to all of them.

[Amedeus Voon]

Sync development not working, how? The best feature of Lightroom gone. Headache...

Select few image and press "Sync", nothing happen, active auto sync and press "Sync", auto sync turn back to off....??????

[nasarullahb28009735]

Well it's happening with me, I have source image which was cropped because of camera settings and I recovered the edges through DNG recover edges plugin, once I recovered the edges and changed the image setting from AS SHOOT to Original, and tried to sync the same setting for rest of the images, it does not worked, I called the Adobe technical team and wasted whole night with them, but they were failed to resolve the isssue, I have hunderds of images in one Time Lapse and I can't change there settings manually, some sequences are over 1000 images.
This bug started last night, before it was working fine, I tried to install the old Lightroom versions, even tried to change the catalog and many other ways, resetting preferessings, going to default settings, whatever possible I did, but nothing work, this is a big bug for lightroom and they must address it seriously.

[old_tv_nut]

Just ran into this problem, and it is not due to syncing to a "as shot" image. I set the first image from "as shot" to "daylight." Then when I sync all the other images, the basic panel for each image says it is set to daylight, but the Temp and Tint settings are still the "as shot" settings; different for every image, not set to the "daylight: vlaues.

Never saw this on previous versions.

[old_tv_nut]

Previous command is doing the same thing - says it set white balance to Daylight, but didn't do it.