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iqraa61698126
iqraa61698126
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August 9, 2022
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Why do I have to keep pressing 'update AI settings' to see my edits?

  • August 9, 2022
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Hi all,

Sorry if this is an obvious fix, but as much as I appreciate the brilliant new masking updates of lightroom, I'm getting very frustrated that every time I'm reopening a collection to contiue editing on, instead of seeing my previously edited version of the photo, I see a small triangle with an exclamation mark and 'update AI settings'. When I click on that, the edits return, but having to go through a whole catalogue of 1000+ photos and do this is such a time waster. I must be missing something here, why does it appear and better yet, can I do something to just keep the edits there permenantly? 

 

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JohanElzenga
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JohanElzengaCommunity Expert
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August 9, 2022

If it is not the permissions problem as mentioned by @richardplondon , then it sounds like maybe you deleted this separate file. It is called 'catalogname.lrcat-data' and should not be deleted. If you rename or move a catalog, then make sure this file gets renamed or moved too.

 

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richardplondonCommunity Expert
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August 10, 2022

True: but I would hope that if this folder was found absent, it should then get re-created - the next time a new AI mask was generated? Assuming LrC had the permissions to do that.

JohanElzenga
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JohanElzengaCommunity Expert
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August 10, 2022
@richardplondon wrote:

True: but I would hope that if this folder was found absent, it should then get re-created - the next time a new AI mask was generated? Assuming LrC had the permissions to do that.


Yes, it does get recreated, but you have to update each mask to do that. Lightroom won't do it automatically.

 

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richardplondonCommunity Expert
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August 9, 2022

I suggest you look in this forum for "MacOS permissions", could be that.

 

Specifically: how-to-give-full-disk-access-to-lightroom-classic-on-macos 

 

The new masking saves / caches the results from AI mask calculation to a separate resource location on disk alongside the Catalog, ready for retrieval when you next come back to the same photo. Perhaps in your case the application is not currently successful at writing those data out. 

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