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New Participant
June 19, 2023

P: Lightroom internals failed to initialize

  • June 19, 2023
  • 48 replies
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Hey All,

 

Since updating to the latest version of Lightroom (as of June 20th, 2023), this message pops up as soon as I press the app icon to open it on my Mac. It happens on my M1 mac as well as my Intel macbook pro. 

 

Anyone else havbing this issue? It's rendered my business dead in the water until I can access my photos again.

 

Pete

48 replies

New Participant
July 16, 2023

I have the same problem.

Shroker1
New Participant
July 15, 2023

I uninstalled Lightroom CC, and deleted the entire folder and its remenants. Reinstalled and this seemed to fix my issue.

New Participant
July 15, 2023

I cannot open Lightroom at all.   It fails to initialize.  I tried uninstalling it and reinstalling and it still fails. This must have happened during the latest update.   I had no issues prior.  

Shroker1
New Participant
July 12, 2023

The app crashes and says "Error intializing Lightroom, unexpected system exception" if the issue persists, pleease report it.

Ranjisha Sengupta
Brainiac
July 10, 2023

Thanks, @ke255886923hag@Viorela1992, and @다승307034880p9c, for sharing the screenshots. We're aware of this issue and have also raised a ticket for the bug. This task is under investigation. We request all to stay tuned to us, if there's any update on this issue, we'll surely update the thread. Thanks for your patience and understanding.

 

New Participant
July 9, 2023

Hello Guys,

i have the same issue as you all on Win10. 

 I tried to downgrade on a later version but have issues there aswell. 

New Participant
July 8, 2023
hi, I subscribed to this service, I installed the program but I couldn't open it at all. please help me
 

 

 

New Participant
July 7, 2023

 

I deleted and re-downloaded lightroom but same error message popuped. 

New Participant
June 29, 2023

Hi Ali,

From what I can see, we have the same problem. I've tried various methods from YouTube videos, but unfortunately, nothing helped. I went to Adobe Creative Cloud and selected the "Apps" tab. Under Adobe Lightroom, I clicked on the three dots (more options) and chose a different version. I installed the previous version, 6.3.1, which started working. Then I went back to Adobe Creative Cloud and performed an update. I don't know why, but version 6.4 started working. Try doing the same as I did; maybe it will work for you too.

 

BR

Piotr 

New Participant
June 28, 2023

For the past few days, I've been having trouble launching Lightroom. After clicking, I receive the following message: "Error initializing Lightroom - Unexpected system exception." This issue only occurs on Windows; everything is fine on my Mac. Please help me.