P: LR5.2 flickr publish causes all photo collections to only show the flickr set being published

[onesimus81]

Just updated Lightroom to 5.2. When I publish photos to flickr, then click back to a different collection, the photos shown in the grid are photos from the flickr set being published instead. This happens every time I publish to flickr. Occasionally, photos in other collections disappear instead, once I begin publishing.

[temtam]

I have exactly the same problem.... HELP PLEASE.
Is there a possibility to go back to Lightroom 5 until they have fixed this problem.

[KenStanek]

This is not just a flickr publish problem. This happens when working with ANY Publish Collection. I have the same problem when working with the Photoshelter Publish Collection.

I've heard that there were bugs with the Publish Collection since 5.0. But something changed in 5.2 to make any use of the Publish Collection basically trap you in that collection. There is no returning to the main gallery short of closing the program and restarting. I have been using Lightroom since the version 1 beta, so I am very familiar with its use, and I have not had such an adverse usability issue like this until this update to 5.2.

I am getting by in the mean time by trying to do most of my work in the main galleries/collections before publishing photos. If there is a need to return to my other photos, I have to close Lightroom and reopen. A restart does get things back to normal, but be very careful working on photos once you have clicked on one of your publish collections and try to switch back: you may not be working on the photo that you think you are!

[temtam]

help...... there is still no answer to this problem

[DarcyMoore1968]

Help. Same

[Victoria Bampton LR Queen]

I'm hearing a few similar reports, but I haven't been able to reproduce it myself yet. Which OS are you all using?

[FeedbackCommunityMember]

After installing LR 5.2 I have found that LR tend to not update the content of the grid view when I switch folder or collection or apply filter. Switching to Develop module and back does not help - I actually have to restart LR

[FeedbackCommunityMember]

Mac OSX Moutain Lion

[DarcyMoore1968]

Exactly what I experience too. Restarting L5 is what I do as well.

[temtam]

It is all the same problem. I am using a MacBookPro with 10.8.2. Mountain Lion.
And Victoria.... be glad that you haven't been able to reproduce it.... it scared me..... I thought all my pictures were in one big folder (all 26.000 of them) because doing a search on whatever criteria doesn't work either. The only thing to do it shutting down and hope for the best.....

[FeedbackCommunityMember]

I really hope Adobe can fix this asap, because I use published smart collections quite a bit so LR 5.2 is close to useless now 😞

[Pete.Green]

I've worked with one user who after updating to 5.2 this was resolved by resetting the preferences in LR.

Can some of you experiencing this try resetting the LR preferences to see if that helps out?

blogs.adobe.com/lightroomjournal/2013/06/lightroom-basic-troubleshooting-to-fix-most-issues.html#Preferences

Regards
Pete

[FeedbackCommunityMember]

Did this after a chat with adobe support yesterday, but it did not make any difference

[temtam]

I did that too, doesn't make any difference.....

[Julie Kmoch]

Can you let us know how many photos are in the collections you're publishing? We're wondering whether collection size is a factor. And does it straighten out if you quit and relaunch?

[temtam]

I am publishing about 20-30 photo's at the time (this time) and everything seems to be okay once you relaunch LR. But as soon as you try to publish again.......

[FeedbackCommunityMember]

I tested going into a publish smart collection with only 5 photos. The problem occurs even if I don't try to publish. I just look at the photos in the collection and then the problems starts to happen. If I double click on a photo in the collection, at totaly different photo is displayed in loupe view. Also the metadata in the right panel shows data for yet another photo.

Restarting LR helps, but only until a pubilshed smart collection is used in any way.

[DarcyMoore1968]

Exact description of my issue too.

[FeedbackCommunityMember]

This is 100% reproducible for me (OS X 10.8.5 on a 2013 Retina MacBook Pro).

1. Select a publish collection with a bunch of unpublished photos, in my case a smart collection with 950 of them under the SmugMug publish service. The grid view switches to the list of photos in that collection as expected.

2. Select another collection. It can be a special collection like "Previous Import" or a regular one or a smart one, doesn't matter.

The grid view continues to show the photos in the publish collection, not the photos in the newly-selected collection. Restarting Lightroom is, as far as I've found, the only way to fix the issue.

[FeedbackCommunityMember]

One detail that may or may not be useful: you can switch to another collection without trouble if the publish collection is selected when Lightroom starts up (i.e., if it was selected when you previously quit LR). It is only if you switch to the publish collection after Lightroom is already running that things get stuck.

[DarcyMoore1968]

Help: after following the instructions and deleting the plist file I Choose a Different Catalog button fine but then only have the option to Upgrade that catalogue. I thought I could just open it as the instructions suggest. I am a little scared to upgrade it but have no other option. Please advise (quickly if possible).

[Victoria Bampton LR Queen]

Don't upgrade - you're looking at the wrong catalog. Look for one, probably in the same location with the same name, but with a -2 on the end.

[DarcyMoore1968]

TY. 🙂

[DarcyMoore1968]

NB I have Cannot seem to make the resetting in preferences work. I select my current catalog but it always wants me to upgrade.

[temtam]

It seems we all have the same problem. Please help.... every time I close down LR I am afraid my pictures will be damaged.

[DarcyMoore1968]

Apologies: I can now confirm that this fix works (for me). I found my 2013-2 catalog and voila. Thanks to Victoria Bampton too.