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Twice in the last week Lightroom has reset all edits on photos of mine. When I'm editing, I'll import a number of raw files, then "create a virtual copy" of each as I go to edit it. I leave the original file as is, and edit the virtual copy. I always have a bunch of photos in the collection at the bottom of the screen, and I'll go back and forth between them as I edit. The same way I've always done it. Lately Lightroom has randomly reset a couple of my virtual copies. When I scroll back to a photo I've been working on, I'll find it has been reverted to an exact copy of the raw file. Its frustrating to loose hours of editing work.
I updated Lightroom yesterday, and I'm hoping that will fix the issue. I'm just wondering if it's something I'm doing wrong? Or if there's a better way to go about things? Thanks guys!
Look at the Edit History panel of your virtual copy. What does it show?
Do the sliders reflect the final edited position?
If you click on the top-most entry in the history panel and then click on the bottom-most entry, you see no difference, but you should see a difference? What if you click on one of the middle entries?
I ask because sometimes I outsmart myself, I make a dozen edits to the photo, only to find out that the dozen edits has resulted in an edited photo that is visually indistinguishable from the unedited photo.
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While I don't understand the reasoning of creating a virtual copy to leave the original file "as is" — becuase Lightroom never adjusts, edits or changes the image portion of your original file — Lightroom does not on its own delete your edits from a virtual copy or from an original. I suspect that you have accidentally imported the photo twice, and so one import its associated virtual copy has edits, and the other import associated virtual copy has no edits.
Please do a search for one of these photos by following ALL FOUR of these steps:
1. In the Lightroom Library Module, on the left, under Catalog, click on All Photographs
2. Turn off all filters (Ctrl-L once or twice)
3. Turn off all stacking (Photo->Stacking->Expand All Stacks)
4. Search for at least one of these photos by file name using the Lightroom Filter Bar
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Look at the Edit History panel of your virtual copy. What does it show?
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Do the sliders reflect the final edited position?
If you click on the top-most entry in the history panel and then click on the bottom-most entry, you see no difference, but you should see a difference? What if you click on one of the middle entries?
I ask because sometimes I outsmart myself, I make a dozen edits to the photo, only to find out that the dozen edits has resulted in an edited photo that is visually indistinguishable from the unedited photo.
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Every one of us has clicked on the wrong spot without realizing it at some point or another
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Thanks for your advice/ input. I'm by no means an expert with Lightroom. I only really got into using it in the last couple years. I'm just going through it on my own, trying to figure out the best way to do things. When I find one way to do things I'll often stick with it, but I'm always open to alternative possibilities.
I like to create virtual copies to edit, leaving the original untouched, because I'll often edit the same photo a number of different ways. I figured it would be easiest to leave the original there to copy, and start another edit from scratch. Thanks again for your response!
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Off track, but
OP is probably using virtual copy's as to have seperate treatments, seperate workflows for the one image withou having to start from scratch (as in edit, then export, then edit, export..)
For example, one copy black and white, one copy high key, one copy way overkill bonkers saturation just for fun, etc
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By default this virtual copy's get stacked, unstuck them, can lead to accidental edits if LRC thinks they are all selected, and that can occur with stacks.
One of those, opps, issues.
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I've been having the same problem. After I launch Lightroom and start editing a photo, once I leave the photo and then come back to it (even if I click the one right next to it and then imitately back on the picture I was editing before) all the edits will be gone. The edited picture that I had previously will show small at the bottom where you can see all the photos in your folder but not actually on the view. The only wat that I've gotten them to come back is if I press comand z (Edit Undo). Does anyone have any idea how to fix this or why this is happening? This doesn't happen every day but I've never been able to fix it once it starts. I'll just come back the next day and it will work fine.
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When you go back to the photo you edited and then left, what shows in the History panel? Are your edits showing there?
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All it shows is synchronize Setting in History..... it is really weird.
I wish I could videotape it because the edit appears to be there and as you go to open the files the edits disappear one by one!
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Curious has anyone figured this out? I too am having random edits just gone! I will go. back into works from a year ago and as I open the gallery and click on one of the pictures the edits are gone? This is really upsetting as they are randomly just gone! It's not all the pictures either it is just intermittently?
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There is a possibility where you have (accidentally) imported the photos more than once; one version has edits, while the other version does not.
You need to do a search for these photos in Lightroom Classic, and let us know what you find. Follow all of these four steps in order:
1. In the Lightroom Classic Library Module, on the left, under Catalog, click on All Photographs
2. Turn off all filters (Ctrl-L once or twice)
3. Turn off all stacking (Photo->Stacking->Expand All Stacks)
4. Search for at least one of these photos by file name using the Lightroom Classic Filter Bar
Also, when you find one of these photos where the edits are gone, what does the History panel say? Is the only entry the import, or are there edits showing in the History panel.
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Thank you however sadly this isn't the case. Have you heard of anyone having this issue using dng files specifically?
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Thank you however sadly this isn't the case.
What is your evidence? Did you actually try the search using the steps I provided?
Have you heard of anyone having this issue using dng files specifically?
Not that I recall, again what is your evidence that it is happening to DNG files? Is this visual, you look at the DNG, expecting to see edits, and there are none? Or do you somehow examine the actual contents of the DNG file? Please explain how you came to this conclusion.
Please answer my earlier question about the History panel.
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Sorry for the delay so I am still seeing this happening. When I go to the individual file all the sliders and edits are visably gone and reset. Outside of that I am not sure how to answer your question. When I edit an image it gets rated. This has been a work flow for a long time. I go to the rateed image and it is like nothing was ever edited on the image.
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You said "All it shows is synchronize Setting in History..... it is really weird."
Normally, in history the first (bottom) piece of information is the Import. Does that show? What does it say?
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So it looks like there is editing history when I click one of the edits in the history it then appears on the image, so the good news is there are edits, however all the sliders are reset in that image when I go to look at it normally and this is happening on a lot of the images, like catalogs worth. So will I have to go through hundreds of images and click on them in the history to see the edits? Thoughts on if they will transfer over to the newest version of LR?
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Can you show us a screen capture of the Develop module for one such photo, so we can see the sliders are reset and also so we can see the History Panel?
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