P: Generate Remove/AI Selections fail during export

[marcella_5983]

Since the new update in Lightroom (8.31), when I export an image, items I've removed with generate remove do not apear in the exported image.

[CMass]

Hi @眞里5CC4,

Thank you for reaching out and sharing your experience with Lightroom. To help me better understand your issue, could you please provide your system information? You can find it by going to Help > System Info. Copy that information into a text file and attach it to your response. 

Thank you! 

^CM

[Noel Orridge]

Hi @Generous_view0D45, You're absolutely right, and I completely understand your frustration. Just to clarify — the post was merged by another team member, but due to a glitch on my end, I missed the context and responded without realizing the thread already covered the exact issue being reported. That was my oversight, and I sincerely apologize for the confusion caused. To prevent any further confusion for others visiting the thread, I’ll be removing my previous response. You can stay in same conversation and stay tuned for updates.

Thanks again for calling this out — your feedback is important and helps us stay more vigilant.

[Wild Meadow]

Hello - I am having this issue too on a new Mac book pro with plenty of memory. Even if I export just a few at a time. In addition I go back in and update as it requests on each image and a few minutes later it has dropped the heal edit that I have done. It just defaults to 'Some remove edits need updating' It is causing massive delays in my editing time and deliver to clients and I don't know what to do. I have updated lightroom and as I am using a brand new Mac book pro I don't think it is relate to that...

[marina_0032]

Tried the GPU thing and it didn't work out. I regret updating the app, hopefully they'll fix this soon. Work is taking forever now for such a simple task. 😞 

[Workshop_Warrior5891]

Sad to say this issue has migrated over to lrmobile with the new update ai edits feature. Everytime I try to blur a photo something went wrong

[nadja_6956]

I get the following error when exporting and so am unable to do so: Some images need AI settings to be updated before export. Please help! 

[Wild Meadow]

this explains my problem exactly too - and on some edits when I update as prompted it says it can't do it. So I have lost that work. This has happened to me since the last update. This is such a busy time for me I don't know what I am going to do.

[Generous_view0D45]

Sad to say this issue has migrated over to lrmobile with the new update ai edits feature. Everytime I try to blur a photo something went wrong

By @Workshop_Warrior5891

How is this the same issue?

[dmitry_1415]

for what i paid for?
after updating i have to export photo one by one, cuase in other case if i export all photos in one export , my photo lost some editions. are you guys ok with it ? do you really think i paid for this ti export one by one and losing my time on this ?

Lightroom version: 8.4 arm64 [ 20250603-0500-10f89fb ] (Jun 2 2025)
NGL Version: 1.41.0.11
WF Version: 7.4 a9dfbad
VF Version: 1.0.154
HIL Version: 40501
CAI Version: c2pa-c/0.6.0 c2pa-rs/0.46.0
PH Version: 5.2.3

Operating system: macOS
OS Version: macOS 15.5 (24F74)
Application architecture: arm64
Computer model: Mac16,13 / Apple M4
Logical processor count: 10
Real memory available to Lightroom: 16,384.0 MB
Real memory used by Lightroom: 2,978.0 MB (18.1%)
Peak memory used by Lightroom: 8,195.0 MB

[audrelina]

Same issue here and its driving me insane. Edit an entire session only to export and all AI masks and remove tools aren't included. I tried moving to catelog to desktop (under another threads advice) no luck. Tried changing GPU (under this threads device) still no luck. Here's my settings. Hoping to get someone on the phone tomorrow since this is really slowing down my workflow at the moment.

Lightroom Classic version: 14.4 [ 202506051112-5918896a ]
License: Creative Cloud
Language setting: en-US
Operating system: Mac OS 13
Version: 13.7.6 [22H625]
Application architecture: x64
Logical processor count: 8
Processor speed: 4.2GHz
SqLite Version: 3.36.0
Built-in memory: 65,536.0 MB
Dedicated GPU memory used by Lightroom: 3,131.8MB / 8,192.0MB (38%)
Real memory available to Lightroom: 65,536.0 MB
Real memory used by Lightroom: 11,335.7 MB (17.2%)
Virtual memory used by Lightroom: 55,174.1 MB
Memory cache size: 1,461.3MB
Internal Camera Raw version: 17.4 [ 2272 ]
Maximum thread count used by Camera Raw: 5
Camera Raw SIMD optimization: SSE2,AVX,AVX2
Camera Raw virtual memory: 1171MB / 32767MB (3%)
Camera Raw real memory: 1425MB / 65536MB (2%)

Cache1:
Final1- RAM:387.0MB, VRAM:667.0MB, ARP_9142.NEF
NT- RAM:387.0MB, VRAM:667.0MB, Combined:1,054.0MB

Cache2:
m:1,461.3MB, n:352.1MB

U-main: 152.0MB

Standard Preview Size: 5120 pixels
Displays: 1) 5120x2880

Graphics Processor Info:
Metal: AMD Radeon Pro 580
Init State: GPU for Export supported by default
User Preference: GPU for Export enabled
Enable HDR in Library: OFF

Application folder: /Applications/Adobe Lightroom Classic
Library Path: /Volumes/2025/2025/LR catelog/2025/2025.lrcat
Settings Folder: /Users/imac/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Lightroom

Installed Plugins:
1) AdobeStock
2) Aperture/iPhoto Importer Plug-in
3) Flickr
4) ShootDotEdit

Config.lua flags:

[tzekist]

ı did some retouching in Lightroom, but when ı export, all the changes ı made with the erase tool are not applied to the photos.  So ı cant do my work. İt s ridiculous.

[nikunj.m]

Hi, thanks for reaching out, and we're sorry about the trouble! 

Please go to the Help menu in Lightroom, then System Info, and copy the text. You can share the info with us by either pasting it as a reply here or in a text file and sharing the file with us. 

You can try to reset the preferences of Lightroom using the steps mentioned here: https://adobe.ly/4kkQTWV

Thanks,
Nikunj

[Jose Teck Kang Pang]

I have this same problem even without the recent update to 20250603-0500-10f89fb build. Even with a single file export to jpeg, half the time I will get see that the generative AI removal has not been applied in the preview window just prior to export.

[Julie Kmoch]

For those who are experiencing this bug, are any of you low on disk space? I'm testing a theory.

[Nextpage]

Hi,

I'm using Lightroom and the content aware edits that I made is not appearing on my exported images. My device is MacbookPro M1 Max. Left is the exported image and on the right is the edited.

[beccamathias]

Has there been any sort of fix to this yet? I just finished editing a huge wedding and none of my AI generative remove stuck during export. This is a huge loss of time for me. I'm extremely frustrated.

[Julie Kmoch]

@beccamathias could you let me know how much free disk space you have?

[beccamathias]

@Julie Kmoch I currently have 230.21GB free out of 1TB.

[courtneya48746038]

It shouldn't matter how much space we have or not(it never mattered before when we would do this), this is not right. This is a major flaw in the update. Please fix this. I can't keep anything edited. An entire wedding gallery's AI edits just poof gone. Hundreds of photos. Then, when I try to update with the little yellow circle thing, it doesn't do anything, and where the AI remove was, there is a ! that is yellow. Please, please help. 

[courtneya48746038]

I have 133 GB or free space. 

[courtneya48746038]

@Julie Kmoch 

[Julie Kmoch]

Thanks for your responses on disk space. I asked because we did make a change in export to try and better deal with low disk situations, but it doesn't sound as if that's a factor here. We are still studying this. We're finding it hard to reproduce (though there's clearly a bug - I don't question that).

Other info that might be helpful:
- Does this only happen with photos that are synced to the cloud? Has anyone seen it happening with files edited in the Local tab?

- For files in the Cloud, if you put them in an album, right click, and choose "Make Album Available Offline", does that help? 

[Placke Pro Photo]

I have this exact same issue and it is all edited on a local drive. 

[beccamathias]

@Julie Kmoch I'm using the Classic version and editing photos on my local drive. 

[Nick Vee]

I have now experienced this issue for the past two months, and it's both super frustrating and "dangerous" as batch exports are a lottery if the AI-based edits are present or not in the final JPEGs. Thankfully I am a hobbyist photographer and not commercial, but still...

I tend to update Lightroom ("CC") to the latest asap. I also have Lightroom Classic installed, but only used for batch processing based on ISO levels (I can't find an equivalent comprehensive photo sort feature by image attributes in "CC").

I have also tried switching Preferences > Performance > GPU > ... to Off. I am sure that used to work a month ago, but now that's not the case. Sometimes it exports correctly, other times it doesn't.

Please fix 🙏

Additional info

• System (built-in) Mac Studio HD remaining space: 317.99 GB
• Working exclusively in local storage mode (I don't sync images with the cloud), the images are stored on an external (RAID 1) drive with 4.54 TB free space. This is made of 2x 8TB SATA HDDs.

System information

Lightroom version: 8.4 arm64 [ 20250603-0500-10f89fb ] (Jun 2 2025)
NGL Version: 1.41.0.11
WF Version: 7.4 a9dfbad
VF Version: 1.0.154
HIL Version: 40501
CAI Version: c2pa-c/0.6.0 c2pa-rs/0.46.0
PH Version: 5.2.3

Operating system: macOS
OS Version: macOS 14.7.5 (23H527)
Application architecture: arm64
Computer model: Mac13,2 / Apple M1 Ultra
Logical processor count: 20
Real memory available to Lightroom: 65,536.0 MB
Real memory used by Lightroom: 14,266.0 MB (21.7%)
Peak memory used by Lightroom: 14,266.0 MB
Memory cache size: 3,447.4 MB

Internal Camera Raw version: 17.4 [ 2271 ]
Maximum thread count used by Camera Raw: 11
Camera Raw SIMD optimization: Neon
Camera Raw virtual memory: 6254MB / 30720MB (20%)

Displays: 1) 5120x2880, 2) 1440x2560

Graphics Processor Info: Metal: Apple M1 Ultra
Graphics Processor Detail: loaded: Yes, supported: Yes, compute: Yes, init: I4_GPU4, hard: success, soft: success, al: Yes, dl: No
OS Media Capability: true

Application Folder: /Applications/Adobe Lightroom CC
Settings Folder: /Users/nicholas/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Lightroom CC
Library Folder: /Users/nicholas/Pictures/Lightroom Library.lrlibrary