What in particular are you looking to get from the db that you couldn't get from the Sdk alone? Maybe, for example,  using smart collections as queries and interrogating those? ... View more

Interesting. I had thought that maybe the issue was with the name indentation but maybe that's not the case.   FWIW, my own solution was to write a Raycast extension that provides the basis for keyboard access to menu items. It has the advantage it will work with any menus from any app, not just Lightroom. It also allows me to use both shortcut key combinations and words to trigger menus. It's a lot easier to add menu items than in Apple prefs and gives decent feedback if the menu path contains errors. I'm happy to make it available but it's a bit rough round the edges for the moment, may need some to and fro-ing to get it installed. But if you don't mind getting your hands dirty ...   Apple prefs are a pain because you don't seem to be able to edit the menu name field; you have to delete the shortcut and start again. Very annoying, especially when trying to debug. ... View more

Yeah, that works. Thanks. It seems to go against the Apple documentation on how to do this, though - see attached and link below. Also, setting a shortcut for, say, Photo->Flip Horizontal, works with "Photo->Flip Horizontal" in the shortcut menu title field. The '->' notation seems to work on all menus except Lightroom's plugin extras menu with the indents. Go figure. ( https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/mac-help/mchlp2271/mac ) ... View more

Updated. Still doesn't work. It's working in all apps bar Lightroom.  my "system" is fine. The evidence for it not being Lightroom is sparse. In the meantime I've worked around it. ... View more

* I've been running Ventura for months. * The shortcuts disappeard 2-3 days ago. * Entering them in Apple Preferences doesn't work. ... View more

No.  They're neither in the Lightroom menu nor in Apple preferences. I've been running Ventura for a while now. Shortcuts disappeared 2-3 days ago.  ... View more

Bearing in mind, also, that all the shortcuts I previously had in this menu, and there were a few, have completely disappeared. I think that reinforces the argument that it's broken. ... View more

Yeah, I got that. I also tried it on other menus in Lightroom that didn't have indents. It appears that custom shortcuts are broken in Lightroom, because they're working fine in other apps.   ... View more

Yes. Like I said, they can't be put back on again. The shortcuts MmacOS preference pane takes them but they won't appear in Lightroom. ... View more

The file makes a great deal more sense if you can read it into an editor that can format it. You might need to rename it to an xml file. ... View more

Sure, I get all that. Maybe I should have been clearer in my post. Digging around in the xmp isn't ideal; it's obtuse and the thought of dipping backwards and forwards between the file and a dialog, checking boxes doesn't exactly fill me with joy.   Your point about only populating the dialog with params in the preset is a good one; I'd always assumed it was what happened anyway, before I looked more closely. I think in general the whole preset management & workflow thing is over-ripe for a rerthink. And it doesn't help that much of this stuff seems to appear in the SDK. I may take a look at parsing xmp files into something more visually useful. If I can pull that out out I might be able to write a better updater. ... View more

I don't think there's ever going to be a direct to Instagram solution from Lightroom but in the meantime, uploading using a desktop web browser works pretty well for me. I think you can now upload multiple images from the desktop, which you couldn't originally do.   For me, the biggest pain in the a was dealing with varying image formats, mostly landscape and portrait. I got around this by padding images out to square with white. Lightroom won't do this but I have a custom export plugin that allows you to run scripts on the output picture and I use Imagemagik to pad the images. It works pretty well. Page, with download link here ... View more

If it helps anyone, moving the mouse over the main image and back onto the preset panel sometimes gives you the preview back again. Or sometimes not.   (belated thanks, John) ... View more

LrPathUtils.standardizePath( '~' )   should do the job for you. ... View more

Annoying. Thanks. ... View more

I have a number of photos in publish collections that I use to update a web site. The collections have been created by my own Publish Service plugin. Sometimes, but not always, selecting photos that are up to date in one of these collections causes the photos to be marked as requiring updating. There is no new entry in the dev history list when this happens. Has anyone seen anything like this? ... View more

I have an app that I've e written  for, amongst other things, running Lightroom connected UIs in a browser view. Currently I'm using it to edit dev parameters from an iPad and to show information about selected photos, again on an iPad browser. I'm also in the process of building a full screen tone curve editor. you'll need Lua and HTML/JavaScript language knowledge but if you feel like getting your hands dirty and if you're on a Mac and you fancy checking it out I can let you have a copy, see how you get on. I've been toying with the idea of making it public for a while, it would be useful to have someone else testing it.  you can see brief description of it here      . Check out the first video, around 3.00 for a floating window demo.  ... View more

As far as I can tell, there's nothing in the sdk that lets change crop parameters. ... View more

Did you try just selecting any collection while the publish is hung? This has been working for me.  ... View more

Coming to this a bit late in the day; one of my own publish plugins recently stopped working. Diggin around a bit I found two things, if it's of any help: 1. it only hangs on images that are being published for the first time. Images marked to republish publish just fine 2. the hang seems to happen somewhere in a getFormattedMetadata() call.   and now I just found it's all working again. No idea what I did to fix it.   Happy to do any testing if they still need it. ... View more

Yes, this is all happening in a publish service, publishing to a web site. The Quick Collection thing doesn't work but that may be to do with how I'm working this. I figured out that I could speed publishing up quite considerably by putting the Post to site process into concurrently running tasks, and there's a dozen or so of them when it gets going.   It might be worth noting that this hang only happens when the photos being published for the first time. If I publish them all one at a time then mark for republishing, they all go across quick as you like. ... View more

I have an export loop - for i, renditiion in exportContex:renditions( {stopIfCanceled = true } do - inside of which is an LrTasks.startAsyncTask() which in turn contains some calls to photo:getFormattedMetaData() before exporting the photo to a website. The first iteration of the loop runs through fine but second time around any calls to getFormattedMetaData() fail. I can't see why this might fail, any thoughts? This code has worked in the past, I'm returning to it after some months and probably a couple of Lightroom updates. ... View more

thanks, John ... View more