"Waiting for Settings" happening regularly with LR Mobile since updating LrC to v12

[jmorg65]

I've only noticed this since updating to LrC v12, but I'm getting regular "Waiting for Settings" messages with photos in LR Mobile (iOS version) on photos which I've edited on LrC. Attached screenshots show the message. The only option is to keep waiting or overwrite all the edits that have been done. The screenshots were from 11/10 and some of them say that the edits were done in late October so almost two weeks and, for some reason, they have not sync'd over to LR mobile from LrC. I have even done a Rebuild Sync Data on LrC recently and it fixed the issue for some photos but not others. If the data hasn't sync'd in almost 2 weeks, unclear if it will ever do so and why on earth it would take this long to sync the information.

Unless v12 broke something that needs fixing, I assume there is a way to make this stop happening so that small amount of edit data are sync'd quickly as I've never encountered this issue in the past roughtly 4 years of using LR mobile until updating to v12. 

Anyone know why this is happening and how to fix it permanently? 

[Jim Wilde · Accepted solution]

I get a "Waiting for Settings" condition quite often, but I find that I can easily clear it by making a tiny inconsequential slider change on the affected image in LrC (usually just make a +1 adjustment to the Texture slider in the Basic panel, but it could be any slider). After the adjustment syncs, the problem in Lightroom usually clears. 

Worth a try?

The permanent fix would be to wait for Adobe to fix the problem. They are aware of it, so hopefully we'll see a fix soon.

[jmorg65]

Jim, thanks. That did the trick. Weird. Look forward to the fix from Adobe. Very annoying, particularly because it means that the photos I'm most apt to want to edit and work on are no longer available on the mobile version unless I want to reset and start from scratch, which is a non-starter.

[RichardChubb]

Hi Jim, just stumbled across this, and it worked for me, so thank you. 

One question, if you have a batch of say, 50 photos, is there a way of telling which ones have the "Waiting for Settings" issues? I found this one by accident, so now am worried there are more I don't know about. Thanks

[Gawrobryk]

I am still moving from LRC to LR. So far keep uploading photos to both. LRC as backup. I recently moved all my 2022 photos from internal disk to external one to make more space. Since then many (not all) pictures in LR lost their settings (but previews are still OK ?!!!!). I was not even processing them using LRC (only in LR). Editing is not possible even after pressing reset. I have to manually delete those photos upload backup and start editing again. Adobe - I pay you lots of money every month. I am getting tired with this nonsense. Please be kind and respectful to us.