X to Rotate Crop

[dawnmichele]

In the current version of Lightroom Classic Develop Module, when in crop mode and you use the "x" keyboard shortcut to rotate the crop and then press x again to rotate back the "Remove Photo from Lightroom Catalog" prompt appears instead of the intended action. Please advise.

[Rob_Cullen]

Interested if other Mac users find the same.

I cannot reproduce the problem in my Windows-11 system.

It could be a Mac specific bug if more reports pop up.

[Conrad_C · Accepted solution]

It’s an unusual problem that does not happen on my Mac either. But we can try to interpret some clues.

The X shortcut should not normally make that alert appear (“Remove Photo…”). The keyboard action that normally makes that appear on a Mac is pressing the Delete key when a folder is the selected source.

We’ll assume that the Delete key is not actually being pressed, because you’re pressing the X key. That leads to the question, what would cause a Mac to think that an X key means the Delete key? One angle would be to look at any software that might be installed that remaps keys or launches macros with a keyboard shortcut. Another thing to look at is which language that macOS is set to, because X is the shortcut on a US English keyboard and might differ for other languages.

Also make sure you have tried restarting Lightroom Classic and tried restarting the Mac, in case it was just some weird temporary problem.

If the problem persists, a workaround is that if you only want to undo a crop rotation you just did, instead of pressing X again to forward rotate (which adds a second crop rotation step in the History panel, for a total rotation of 180 degrees), press the Undo keyboard shortcut instead (backs out of the crop rotation History step for a total rotation back to the original 0 degrees).

[dawnmichele]

Thank you!!! Your answer led me to investigate keyboard shortcuts which led me to discover I didn't disable Lightroom in one keyboard shortcut I had set up in keyboard maestro. The shortcut changed two "x" characters in a row to ×. Problem solved! 

[Conrad_C]

Well, thank you for letting us know that worked! I thought it might be a long shot but I mentioned it anyway, now I’m glad I did.

[Bob Somrak]

I can not reproduce on my Mac either.

[johnrellis]

Try resetting LR's preferences:
https://www.lightroomqueen.com/articles-page/how-do-i-reset-lightrooms-preferences/

LR sometimes soils its preferences file, and resetting it can fix all sorts of wonky behavior. That article explains how to restore the old preferences if resetting doesn't help.