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November 24, 2023
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Unexpected behavior with AutoSync

  • November 24, 2023
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Just when things couldn't get more unsuable for professional photographers. The 2-year Auto sync bug is back!

I posted about this bug for over 2-years before it was "addressed" in a recent update (13). I had spotted it happening a couple of times after said update but was unable to replicate whilst screen recording, until now....

Same as before, when auto sync is selected and multiple images are selected for syncing, adjustments to entirely unrelated aspects of the develop module will elicit adjustments to elements of an image like filters (in the case of the screen recording, a graduated filter) across all images.

A "collection ruining" bug if you're not well versed with the plague-like bugs of Adobe Lightroom Classic.

In the case of the screen recording, with auto sync selected, I made an adjustment to the Orange Hue of an image intented to be synced across the entire collection, when in fact the graduated filter of that image was then synced across all images. As you can see in the history, the last few adjustments were to Orange Hue, Temp, Tint and a radial filter. Nothing to do with a graduated filter.

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Adobe Expert
November 25, 2023

Are you sure the adjustments to the filter are actually synced to the other images and it is not just an artefact in the small previews? I am asking because I can't get anything like this to happen. This would be a pretty serious bug indeed.

Participating Frequently
November 26, 2023

100% affects all images. This is a serious bug that I have been documenting for over 2-years. I can replicate is everytime with certain adjustments in a certain order but it also happens randomly. Rikk Flohr and his team know all about it but they simply avoid dealing with it by doing things like changing post titles to be irrelevant so that other users are unable to relate it to issues they are having with autosync.

The issue was apprently resolved in version 13 but it clearly isn't.

Adobe Expert
November 28, 2023

So how do you explain my multiple screen recordings of the issue? I'm not sure you're moving fast enough. My suspicion is that this is a speed issue connected some other performance issues being reported by hundreds of users.

https://community.adobe.com/t5/lightroom-classic-bugs/p-unable-to-advance-to-the-next-photo/idc-p/14261205/page/14#M49747

Have you looked into the below issue. This was a comonly reported issue in a previous version except it applied the crop across all images instead of a filter.

https://community.adobe.com/t5/lightroom-classic-bugs/p-auto-sync-copies-previous-crop-from-before-autosync-was-enabled/idi-p/13438532


I can't explain it ut yeah it clearly happens in your recording but I just can't reproduce it and have never seen anything like this even though I edit a lot in Auto Sync mode. I can see your recording and I am going about the same speed with my changes. I highly doubt it has anything to do with how fast you go but it must be some kind of corruption in your catalog file that causes it to behave in unexpected ways. Does this happen with a fresh catalog file? Does resetting Classic's preferences make a difference?

Also, I do not see any of the bad performance people are talking about. My main catalog has ~130,000 images in it most from high megapixel cameras. This catalog has been going since before Lightroom version 1 (I was an early beta tester) and I always just let Lightroom upgrade it. Most images are stored on a NAS and it works as fast as always. Classic just flies on this M1 Max machine but even on my previous intel it always worked just fine. I shoot and edit high volumes of images all the time. I do have some optimizations that I use which is to always import using embedded previews (enormous time saver!) and not let Lightroom generate its own previews. I also have my raw default set to "camera settings" so the embedded preview is actually very close to what Lightroom would have generated by its own. This speeds up initial culling vastly. I also don't use smart previews as they are an enormous time waster to generate and worse do not help with performance on modern machines at all. They might have had a purpose years ago but nowadays they are useless except if you need to edit images that are offline. These two things (use embedded previews and don't let Lightroom generate any other previews) save me hours of time.

JohanElzenga
Adobe Expert
November 24, 2023

Yes, why not?

 

-- Johan W. Elzenga
Participating Frequently
November 25, 2023

Participating Frequently
November 24, 2023

Do you mean a "reply"to you or my own post?

JohanElzenga
Adobe Expert
November 24, 2023

You can add an answer and add media to your answer...

 

-- Johan W. Elzenga
Participating Frequently
November 24, 2023

Unfortunately Adobe uses Khoros which is as bad as their software. Trying to upload media as part of posts is a 50/50 gamble. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.

Unfortuantely you also can't edit psots to add them media fterwards......

Keith Reeder
Participating Frequently
November 25, 2023

"Unfortunately you also can't edit posts"

 

Sure you can:

 

 

"Just when things couldn't get more unsuable for professional photographers"

 

Just to be clear, you're "professional" photographer - you're not speaking for all pros, hundreds of thousands of whom use "unusable" Lr happily every day.

Participating Frequently
November 25, 2023

No such option. You must be an adobe spinning propellar hat minion.

Using LR 12? Editing 20-30 photos a day? Goo on you.

JohanElzenga
Adobe Expert
November 24, 2023

You refer to a screen recording, but nothing was attached.

 

-- Johan W. Elzenga