Have you tried to create a new catalog, then import from a catalog? ... View more

Not sure which of may various babbling s, you are noting. Was that the link to where resting preferences by holding ALT and the SHIFT key down when relaunching Lightroom?? Tried that to see what would happen (bringing up my test catalog just in case of damage) and no big deal other than Lightroom treating me like it was the first time I brought this version up (welcome.... new features... bla bla bla).  MInd you my presets are behaving so nothing to prove as to a fix. It did not, however, fortunately, turn all those third party ones on. ... View more

So, when you open one of those sub folders (HDR Presets for example) are the presets in that sub folder, or have you created an additional leval of folders? ... View more

Another possibility I see mentioned in various issues in various forums is a corrupt presets. and mentioning of deleting then recreating. I do not have the steps for this. Perhaps another member??? Ah, perhaps in this thread: Lightroom Classic 7.3.1: Since update, the presets don't work | Photoshop Family Customer Community By the way, appears this problem is not unique to v8 ... View more

Hunting on google, your issue is really bugging me, as opposed to moving on and waiting for another member to solve. I noticed several people advising to reset preferences, so I went and did that to see what occurs.  (reset all default develop settings) Screen shot of place to do this (or at least what I did) . Notice all the frigging presets I turned of popping back up on the left: ... View more

Just to check, a picture is worth a lot more than the words. Following is an screen shopt of waht I see whern I goto the manage option in the LR presets:: In this example, the internal to Lightroom general preset B$W filter has been turned on. Is this what you are doing in this step to make those presets visible?? Moving further down and taking another screen shot: I have turnrd on a 3rd party preset (think I may have renamed), Can not remember if my User Presets was already checked on. ... View more

A similar posting exist: Lightroom Presets Not Working One possibility came up 3.  Re: Lightroom Presets Not Working           cmgap     May 14, 2018 10:04 AM  (in response to callej95372726)        Under preferences > do you have Store with this Catalog checked or unchecked. 3rd party presets that you have purchased require that the box be unchecked in order to show up. User Presets can be found in their previous location either by searching or by clicking on the link to Show Where Presets are Stored button. You  may need to copy and paste them to the new Lightroom folder in your Pictures/Lightroom/Lightroom Settings folder Otherwise, likely as johnrellis suspects, a corrupt install (also mentioned inabove posting) OHHH, if the fix/setting by cmgap is helpful, go back into that post and thank her (not me) ... View more

Looking at where the lens Profiles are kept, I notice its related to Camera Raw. What is your ACR version?? Yes, I know, LR is ACR with extra bells and whistles, but humor me and  go and check on your ACR version, update it if not latest (11 I think). see if that resolves the issue. ... View more

Ok, so I see or assume you went into your preferences, and clicked on the presets tab, and then clicked on "show lightroom develop presets". And LR brought of the folder they are supposedly in (  Roaming -> Adobe -> Camera Raw -> Settings) . Now, while you are in the same folder "Settings" is in, scroll up and notice a folder "ImportedSettings"  (  Roaming -> Adobe -> Camera Raw -> ImportedSettings ). Did a bit of experimentation, when in LR, in presets you go and import some, this is the folder lightroom places those in. Now , both folders have worked for me, but go and try to copy some to ImportedSettings. P.S. in LR try the optimize tool just in case. Both folders should work. ... View more

In the presets tab, click on the +, select manage, see if your missing presets are listed, and just need to have the box checked to display. ... View more

OK, works on my Windows 10 PC LR CC Classic 8 ... View more

I see the Keystroke is now CTRL BACKSPACE ... View more

Ok, curiosity is up, so I started googling on this issue. Came up with this: Use This Simple Trick to Delete Multiple Images in Lightroom - CaptureLandscapes Now, you stated you marked (flagged) unwanted image with an X. The author of the above link uses that as a method of culling AND deleting based on the flag of Rejected. Thea author keys in CRL + DEL, and they go away. Is this what you are doing? I think most of us simply select all the ones we want to go away, then use the LR command to remove. ... View more

What happens outside of lightroom to a file you delete? Close Lightroom, Bring up Widows Explorer (the file manager), navigate to the folder an image you wanted to delete is stored in. Place some file at that location, perhaps just a text file. Delete it, and see what happens. Heck, renumber what image you wanted to delete, see if you can delete it from within Explorer. For the MAC only crowd, that would be the Finder. ... View more

Not at my PC just now, so this from memory. In my copy of LR, the process is not DELETe, but to click on remove, I am then presented with the option of deleting from the disk, or removing from catalog (and if published via publishing service, I would also get an inquiry into those befor the above). So, are you referring to the delete vs remove in this dialog? ... View more

On my X-T3, have experienced that Photo Merge HDR-Panoramic is buggy. Too many frames, no go (think It worked for 90 or so but not past 96). Oh, this is not the exact error as the OP listed. But doing this outside of LR, in ACR worked. And for even some small sets, for example 28 frames (7 exposure 1 stop bracket, 4 columns) I get that specific error, despite in camera auto bracket, 1 stop, 7 frames, bracketing order -0+. If I Romberg correctly, when I got that error and then tried using ACR instead, I git the same error. so, truly odd, same camera, same in camera settings, sometimes works, more often does not. ... View more

I do not have that problem, either on my MacBook, Retina 2015 OS High Sierra, or my PC, OS 10, both with 16gb. Also, when on vacation, and as such using the MacBook, I do in fact use an external drive (FireWire). Now, first suspicion, a week one, are you perhaps using RAM as an virtual hard drive for ant odd reasons. I doubt this. Moving on to more viable inquiries/suggestions, check Lightroom’s use of CACH. ... View more

Make that 100 GB of free space,  my typo. ... View more

Oh, and then optimize the catalog if you get it open. ... View more

So, researching in google for "cannot update lightroom classic catalog". Appears to be lots of opions, and some metion of an Adobe site that provides info on recovery (no, I do not have a link ) One thing that came up is how much hard drive space is available on the hard drive the catalog is in?? Someone states at least 10 GB (I have no proof). Another concept is to 0pen the catalog up in an older version of Lightroom. Turns out you can get that via the Adobe Creative Cloud Desktop Application, Go into the apps tab, scroll down to Lightroom Classic CC, click on the down arrow, select manage, other versions, and pick one. ... View more

Ok, I do not know how to do that. ... View more

Instead of exporting your image to a JPEG and then uploading that to Wordpress, consider purchasing for your Lightrooms Publishing Services the Photo Upload WordPress available from Adobe. Probably more efficient. You can find additional publishing services at Adobe by clicking on the + symbol at your Lightrooms Publishing Service tab, select Find More Service Online, brings up a web page, do a search (for example wordpress) and download/purchase the service (this ones not expensive and a trial exists, note that a trial will probably have annoying features, but you can test out before spending bucks) Typically using this method means you do not have to expend hard drive space on creating JPEG's (will, the are small, so no big deal) and the Publish Service may have specifics tailored to the publishers requirements. Used to do this for facebook, until they got all strange and did not allow it. Works great for Smugmug. . ... View more

Can  you open the catalog without updating? ... View more

Actually I was inquiring on your Adobe Creative Cloud Desktop App version. ... View more

Just to make sure. In your Adobe Creative Cloud Desktop Application, notice the three dots near top right, click on those, click on preferences, Is your version 4.7.0.400? While in preferences, check that "Always keep creative cloud up to date" is checked. ... View more

By the way, while you are at it, has your photoshop and your ACR updated? probably same issue. ... View more

In the end, I suspect the computer nerds will uninstall Lightroom, then they will go into Windows Settings/Apps, remove any older instances of Lightroom (these might not be actual full copies, but just bits of Lightroom). Then they may go to Windows Explorer and look for directories with Lightroom files (not your catalogs)  and delete them. They will probably then go into the windows registry (this is not for non technical capable users) and look for any stray instances of Lightroom that various updates left behind (they should not have). An then  reinstall Lightroom (be sure they understand the difference between LR and LR classic) Note that EXCEPT FOR THE REGISTRY PART do some of that yourshelf. You can remove Lightroom and older copies of Lightroom. Remember the proper way to uninstall Lightroom is via the Creative Cloud Desktop Application, go to the apps tab, click on not the open button, but the arrow next to it, select manage, etc.) WARNING: Please have a backup of your catalog(s) on an external hard drive, kept at home. WARNING/BE AWARE. The processes above may foul up Lightrooms handling of any plugins you have installed, and any third party or user created presets. They probably still exist, they just may be in a location that the newer copy does not look for (Adobe appears to love tweaking this, especially for Photoshop). All fixable, Plugins easiest by reinstalling, Presets by Moving location, or just importing again. ... View more

If you  have not already gone to the computer nerds for repair, and that is a very good idea, then a few things to look at (the nerds will probably do this). Oh, and windows profiles can get corrupted, but your issue is probably in the windows registry (we will not go deep into that, registry repair by non nerds either needs registry repair/maintenance software or very very good knowledge on what you are doing and a acceptance to take responsibility if it goes very wrong), moving on. 1. Probably best if you re-do your cold boot before doing the fowling snooping. SYMPTOMS IN PROCESSES/APPS RUNNING 2. After the PC starts, do not at first launch Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Classic. Lets do an initial step. 3. At the same time press the following keyboard keys: CTRL  ALT  DELETE The taskbar will come up, click on Task Manager. If it is not by default already selected, select the Processes tab. Pay attention to the Apps. Is "Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Classic" stated as running? Should not be yet. If it is, then click on it as to select it, then right click and select End Task While still in the Task Manager, go to the tab  Details and see if Lightroom.exe is listed as running. It should not at this point. 4. Close the task manager, sometimes it does not take refreshes very efficiently and you may be happier relaunching it instead when called for. Now go and attempt to launch Lightroom, while it fails (I assume) go back to the Task Manager, see that only one instance of  "Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Classic" is running under Processes/Apps, and only one instance of Lightroom.exe appears in Details. If more than one is running, again end those task, repeat and see if the issue reoccurs. If this is happening, get to that store, let them know, and they will fix. By the way, have a fresh memory of your Adobe login when you go to the store, they might in the end have you login to reload a fresh copy of LR. SYMPTOMS IN EVENTS 5. Moving on. On your screen, bottom left,the windows icon that you might normally left click to bring up applications, right click on it, left click on Event Viewer. Wait for the summary to populate. do not get all tied up in Oh my gosh, issues, lots of reasons for issues to be represented in these logs, not all are the end of the world. Now over on the left, note the item "Windows Logs", click on it,Click on Application. Note any error, those today, probably in the last hour or less. See if any relate to Lightroom (note application path). This might give a clue, might not, might be all in nerd speak. Re-post any error from that log.\ ... View more

A cold boot is when you shut the PC down resulting in it turning off. A restart is a warm boot. You want to shut the PC down, so that anything in memory is lost. ... View more

Have you tried a cold boot of the PC? ... View more