Lightroom Classic

Have been having a lot of crashes with LRc 15.4.1 for a week or so. Currently the situation is so bad, that moving from library to dev the app crashes every time. I’ve been sending a lot of crash reports. I’ve also tested multiple files from different cameras over past 20 years, the issue stays.I’ve also tested downgrading LRc, issue doesn’t go away. I also tested the other Lightroom, Photoshop, Bridge and Bridge (beta) - all crashing equally the same, when changing to dev/edit or in case of bridge an ps, just opening any raw file. This suggests that the problem is somewhere in Adobe shared runtime stack that is used by all of the apps. I also repaired Creative Cloud installation, no help. Files can be opened just fine in any other capable app. I created new catalogs to see if it was catalog corruption, but it is not. I have gone through all the usual Windows error checkings, sfc, dism, chkdsk, even the memory check. no problems there. All my other apps and even games work fine. Window

The default location for Lightroom Classic catalogs is the user's Pictures/Lightroom folder. Modern operating systems and users frequently sync the Pictures and Documents directories automatically using services like iCloud Drive and Dropbox.When Lightroom is open, these services constantly try to sync the .lrcat and .lrcat-data files in the background while they are actively being written to. This causes frequent write-conflcts, locked databases, and critical catalog corruption.Please update Lightroom Classic to default to a local, non-synced directory (such as a dedicated folder directly in the User Home directory) to protect user data from automated cloud-syncing mechanisms.I have my .lrcat and .lrcat-data files in Pictures and I was about to update to the new Apple File Provider for Dropbox and upon researching it I found Apple will no longer also Pictures to be backed up by Dropbox. I had a double backup, one to iCloud and one to Dropbox.  I didn’t realize it would be backing up c

It works fine for a few days and then won’t open.  Task Manager says it is running but I see nothing.  What gives?I should mention my catalog is huge … don’t know if that has anything to do with it.

Hi everyone,I’ve been experiencing an ongoing issue with Adobe Lightroom Classic, currently on version 15.2. This problem has been happening for the last three updates, not just this latest one.After importing RAW files, the thumbnails do not appear in the Library module. The folder and total file count display correctly, but the preview area remains blank.The only workaround that consistently works is fully restarting Lightroom. Once I relaunch the program, all thumbnails appear normally.System details: Lightroom Classic version: 15.2 Computer: Apple M3 Pro Memory: 18GB RAM GPU acceleration: Set to Auto File type: RAW “Generate previews in parallel”: Enabled Storage: [internal SSD or external drive] This happens every time after import. Restarting fixes it temporarily, but having to do that after every import is not practical.Has anyone else experienced this over the last few updates?Is this a known issue with Apple Silicon machines?Is there a more permanent solution besid

Since the latest versions of Lightroom Classic and MacOS the masking of people always shows “No people found” – even on photos where it was working before. Lightroom Classic version: 15.2 [ 202602111402-ec4112e8 ]License: Creative CloudLanguage setting: en-DEOperating system: Mac OS 26Version: 26.3.0 [25D125]Application architecture: x64Logical processor count: 24Processor speed: 3,3GHzSqLite Version: 3.36.0Adobe GSDK Version: 1.4.0.171Built-in memory: 196.608,0 MBDedicated GPU memory used by Lightroom: 4.743,3MB / 16.368,0MB (28%)Real memory available to Lightroom: 196.608,0 MBReal memory used by Lightroom: 3.040,3 MB (1,5%)Virtual memory used by Lightroom: 55.303,7 MBMemory cache size: 62,7MBInternal Camera Raw version: 18.2 [ 2482 ]Maximum thread count used by Camera Raw: 5Camera Raw SIMD optimization: SSE2,AVX,AVX2Camera Raw virtual memory: 631MB / 98303MB (0%)Camera Raw real memory: 644MB / 196608MB (0%)Cache1: Final1- RAM:519,0MB, VRAM:1.818,0MB, ALP05331.ARWNT- RAM:519,0MB, VRAM

What an awful release. Don't get me wrong, I'm glad to see new developments, but this Lightroom update is an absolute disaster. After culling just 5-10 images, the AI Assist culling tool completely hogs all my RAM, causing my Mac to freeze and throw memory errors. It’s a total nightmare.Culling images via the library module is practically impossible right now - everything just locks up. Even with previews pre-generated and trying to run AI Assist culling, the performance is still abysmal. On top of that, it frequently fails to even generate a Denoise. What is going on, Adobe?! This is absolutely unacceptable!P.S. The RAM management is completely broken and goes beyond any acceptable limits!  

Our mother (a great photographer documenting the lives of her 9 children / grandkids from 1948 to 2010) has left us over 30,000 negs, slides that are now all scanned.  About half are scanned/edited/curated by her, the rest we need to do the work.  We now have over 200 descendants we want to share this with most use iPhones. some iPad. / Mac and some other smart phones/tablets.  Looking for a great photo editing / organization and sharing solution to do this.   Is Lightroom good at this?Is it decent at batch tagging people (up to about 50 different people across the 30,000)?There is no metadata on vast majority but our mom was diligent in identifying each roll with year, month and event type / location when availableWhat happens if we share html links for finished albums with the 200+ direct family descent? Thanks for any insight you may have.   Frederic

Crop tool gets wrong mouse marker when changing image in Light Room Classic How to reproduce:1) Mark any image in the time line.2) click the crop tool. The tool on the mouse marker is now a hand, used to change the crop.3) click any other image in the time line.Expected result: The marker tool should be a hand, enabling change of crop.Actual result: The mouse marker is now a magnifying glass, making cropping impossible. To get the hand back, you have to choose another tool and then go back to crop tool.

I updated to LrC 15.5 a few hours ago.  Since then LrC has problems with video files.  The first problem I noticed was that when I tried to synchronize a folder that had two new video files.  After a couple of minutes I got the error message “An unknown error occurred while reading the video file. (2)”.  I had just completed those files with DaVinci Resolve so I went back and produced the same files again to check if DR had made an error.  When I tried again with the new files but got the same errors.  I was able to play both videos without any issue using VLC Media Player, so they seem to be OK.  I then shutdown LrC and did a backup including optimizing the catalog, and then restarted it to see if that made any difference, but same error.  Then I started looking at other videos that were already in LrC and found that when browsing them in the Library module, most of them pop up a message “There was an error working with the video”.  They will not play in LrC but work fine with VLC Med

Na de update van 7 aug 2026 krijg ik bij meer dan 10000 foto’s het teken om het Adaptief Profiel bij te werken. Ik heb willekeurig een aantal foto’s gekeken maar het lijkt erop dat dit bij foto’s gebeurd waarbij het Profiel is aangepast naar Aangepaste Kleur. Ik vermoed dat dit door de nieuwste versie van LC is gekomen. Echter ben ik ook op 2 juli overgestapt naar een iMac M4 en heb toen de nieuwste software van LC geinstalleerd. Hiervoor draaide ik op een iMac uit 2017 met OS 13.7.8 (22H730), Daar kon ik niet de laatste versie van LC op draaien. Kan mijn vermoeden kloppen? 

When I attempt to synch new photos from my collection I get "synch error:. I have the collections set up to synch. I have paused synching in LrC, restarted my Win11 PC, restarted LrC but I still receive the same error. What other troubleshooting steps should I try?

Select Subject in Lightroom Classic has suddenly become significantly slower on my PC. It previously worked much faster on the same hardware (2-3 sek).System: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 12 GB, 32 GB RAM, Windows 11.Tests with the same images:Lightroom Classic 15.5: 13–14 sec Lightroom Classic 14.5.1, completely new catalog: 7–11 sec Lightroom 15.5 with GPU disabled: 14–18 secLightroom recognizes the RTX 5070 and reports full graphics acceleration. However, GPU utilization appears very low during Select Subject.Since the problem also occurs with a new catalog and different Lightroom versions, it does not appear to be catalog-specific.Around two weeks ago, Select Subject was considerably faster on this same computer.Could you please advise whether this is a known issue or help identify what may have changed?

Hi everyone, I'm currently trying to migrate my entire Lightroom CC library (about 41,440 images) into a new, empty Lightroom Classic catalog. However, the sync in Lightroom Classic is extremely slow: after more than 20 hours, only about 3,200 images have been downloaded. For comparison:On the same system, I also ran the Lightroom Downloader app, which downloads all images in about 20 hours total – many times faster. The app maintains a stable download rate of 30–100 Mbit/s, with peaks up to 200 Mbit/s. But when I pause the Downloader and activate the LrC sync instead, the download rate drops to below 1 Mbit/s, with only occasional peaks and very long idle times. Sync activity in LrC barely progresses, and it seems to load only 1–2 images at a time, with frequent stalling. Both apps are:Running on the same systemUsing the same networkTalking to the same Adobe serversSo I can safely rule out any system or network bottlenecks. I've already tried:Resetting th

I would like to know which “AI” processes are counted and automatically tagged as such.Since I’m required now to mark images as “Made with AI” and I’m still not sure how that truly applies; I’d like to see how much of the LR features that made it worthwhile I can still use without having to have my clients put AI badges all over the place, or having to provide them with 10 different versions for Social media so the markings are “clearly recognizable” on an iphone 4s as well.Discussing the principle of “faking”, i.e. retouching vs. doing it with/without AI is futile in the face of EU lawmaking, but what processes would I have to circumvent so my work doesn’t get automatically flagged via creator cloud?As much as I love the AI mass masking features, I’ve done well without them for decades and I’d rather live without my work being inadvertently AI tainted. Imo, many automated processes are and have been using some sort of artificial intelligence, video games with “opponents” always did. T

I upload Iphone photos from my phone to the LR Cloud using the LR Phone App. I then go into LrC and let them sync back down to my desktop. No problem so far. Once the photo files are safely on my desktop I unsync from the cloud. I then assign keywords and other metatdata whilst in LrC. My next step is to sync the photos back to the Cloud as smart previews. I do this by dragging the photos to an already synced collection. However, they don't sync. They try for about 3 mins and then they remove themselves from the synced collection. However, they still appear under "All synced Photos" and the blue sync ball continues to spin. However, when I remove these photos from "All synced photos" the green tick immediately appears. To sync these photos I have to restart LrC and then again drag the photos the the synced collection. They then sync properly in seconds. I should add it makes no difference whether I delete smart previews, delete the deleted original files from the deleted folder, save t