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3 hours ago
"I think Adobe should offer it in the watermark tools." I agree. Unfortunately, people have been asking for years for watermarks that could pull dynamically from metadata.
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4 hours ago
But if the discussion gets split between the two forums, with conflicting, duplicate, or incomplete suggestions, as sometimes happens, then we all waste time and lose, especially the person asking the question. Since three people had responded in the other forum and just one here, I recommended using the other forum as the focal point. If it had been the other way around, I would have recommended making this forum the focal point (as I've done in the past). Others coming here for help can easily click the link to the other forum.
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4 hours ago
[This post contains formatting and embedded images that don't appear in email. View the post in your Web browser.] The white ghost of a powerline likely indicates you applied Remove on top of an AI mask (e.g. Sky). Do the menu command Settings > Update AI Settings to recompute the mask and get rid of the ghost.
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5 hours ago
Take a look at the LR/Mogrify plugin, which can add watermarks containing various metadata fields.
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8 hours ago
Unfortunately, there's no good solution. Adobe inexplicably omitted "exact match" from smart collections and text filters. You used to be able to do All of
filename starts with xxx yyy zzz
filename ends with xxx yyy zzz but that broke in LR 13.3. If your end goal is to find files given a list of file names, you could use the Any Filter plugin's "matches lines" operator: If your goal is to write a plugin that provides that functionality, the plugin could call catalog:getAllPhotos() and then catalog:batchGetRawMetadata () to get the photos' file names. It could create a temporary collection in which to store the matching photos.
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9 hours ago
@Jan0846 has also posted this in the Lightroom Queen forum: https://www.lightroomqueen.com/community/threads/where-is-my-catalog.52974/ to which another person and I have also replied. To reduce confusion and make the discussion most efficient, I recommend continuing it there. (@dj_paige's reply aligns with what's posted there.)
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10 hours ago
@Patrick Cunningham, there is an open bug report about Starts With and Ends With, acknowledged by Adobe: https://community.adobe.com/t5/lightroom-classic-bugs/p-starts-with-text-filter-on-captions-or-filename-incorrectly-matches-words/idi-p/14729614 The original bug was fixed many years ago in LR 6 or 7 (I think), but then it regressed back to the buggy behavior in LR 13.3. "I want to find pictures which have a caption which contains only a certain phrase, eg: "Trafalgar Square, London, England." but NOT "Trafalgar Square, London, England. A man walking with his dog."" While you can refine particular searches using smart collections (e.g. "contains words Trafalgar Square and doesn't contain walking his dog"), in general, there's nothing in smart collections and filters that will solve this general issue. Consider using the Any Filter plugin, which has correctly working Starts With and Ends With, as well as exact match and many other operators that LR lacks and the ability to search 880 different fields. It's not as convenient as having it all built-in, but it gets the job done.
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Jun 12, 2025
Similar recent reports (on Mac or unspecified): https://community.adobe.com/t5/lightroom-classic-discussions/lens-blur-halo-effect/m-p/15339521 https://community.adobe.com/t5/lightroom-classic-discussions/black-outline-to-subjects-when-applying-lens-blur/m-p/15350918 One person reported the following helped, but they never responded when asked which step helped: 1. Try setting Preferences > Performance > Use Graphics Processor to Custom and unchecking Use GPU For Export. Does the problem still occur? 2. Do you see any red dots under the icons in the Develop tool panel at the top? If so, that means you've applied Remove on top of the lens blur, and LR needs to recompute the Lens Blur mask. Do the Develop menu command Settings > Update AI Settings. 3. If neither of those help, upload a problem original photo to Wetransfer, Dropbox, Google Drive or similar free service and post the sharing link here. We can see if the problem occurs on other LR installations, and if so, file a bug report.
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Jun 12, 2025
06:13 PM
When the SDK method photo:setRawMetadata("gps", coordinates) changes the GPS coordinates of a photo, the Library Metadata panel doesn't show the new coordinates. The same problem occurs with the fields "gpsAltitude" and "gpsImgDirection".
To reproduce on LR 14.3.1 / Mac OS 15.5:
1. Save the attached file "setrawmetadata-gps-bug.txt", rename it to have the .lua extension, and move it into the LR Scripts folder. Restart LR.
2. In Library, select a photo.
3. In the Metadata > Location tagset, set GPS to these coordinates:
37°19'50.6"N 121°53'40.1"W
Observe that the address suggestion matches the coordinates:
5. Do Scripts > setrawmetadata-gps-bug, which sets GPS to these coordinates:
40°43'42.3696" N 115°28'58.9836" W
Observe that the address suggestion has changed to match those new coordinates, but the GPS field still shows the coordinates from step 3 (incorrect):
6. Restart LR, and observe that the changed GPS coordinates are now displayed correctly:
The same problem occurs with the fields "gpsAltitude" and "gpsImgDirection". Modifying the test script is left as an exercise for the reader.
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Jun 12, 2025
03:48 PM
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1. Try deleting the Camera Raw GPU Config.txt file, following steps 2 - 5 of this article: https://helpx.adobe.com/lightroom-classic/kb/troubleshoot-gpu.html#solution-4 2. Delete any TempDisableGPU2 or TempDisableGPU3 files. Read the instrructions carefully about the Lightroom Classic subfolder: https://helpx.adobe.com/camera-raw/kb/acr-gpu-faq.html 3. If these steps don't help, do the LR menu command Help > System Info and copy/paste the entire contents here so we can see exactly which versions of hardware and software LR thinks you're running and important LR options that are set.
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Jun 12, 2025
08:46 AM
As a first troubleshooting step, do the LR menu command Help > System Info and copy/paste the entire contents here so we can see exactly which versions of hardware and software LR thinks you're running and important LR options that are set.
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Jun 11, 2025
04:59 PM
I haven't heard of that error before. Please provide full-resolution screenshots (not phone pics) of the Export settings window showing all the export settings, the error message(s), and "the .text file" and its contents.
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Jun 11, 2025
02:50 PM
[This post contains formatting and embedded images that don't appear in email. View the post in your Web browser.] Click on your "avatar" in the upper-right corner: and click Edit Community Profile. Then click Following: Uncheck the communities, topics, and and posts that you'd like to unfollow, then click Update or Unfollow, as appropriate.
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Jun 11, 2025
02:37 PM
"Several shortcuts are not working and I would like to move them to another key combination." You could use the widely used, free Autohotkey utility. It's a little geeky but is reliable. Or use the Any Shortcut LR plugin.
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Jun 11, 2025
02:28 PM
[This post contains formatting and embedded images that don't appear in email. View the post in your Web browser.] Go to the LR menu command Edit > Preferences, click the General tab, and click the Language drop-down: Then restart LR (very important). If this doesn't work, please describe what you observe when you follow those steps. Full-resolution screenshots (not phone pics) of the entire LR window are often helpful.
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Jun 11, 2025
02:15 PM
Can you post just a screenshot / crop of the hand and the area around it on the edge?
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Jun 11, 2025
01:52 PM
@CapturingTimePhotography: "There was a hand in the edge of my photo that needed to remove and it will only take it to a shadow of the hand." 1. Uncheck Detect Objects before brushing a selection -- it doesn't work well, especially with skinny objects and along the edges of photos. 2. See this short article for how to remove objects more reliably: https://www.lightroomqueen.com/generative-remove-replace/ Most complaints about Remove are addressed in the article. But if it doesn't help, please attach a full-resolution JPEG exported from the unmodified original photo (not a screenshot). With nearly every one of the many dozen problem photos posted here, we've been able to show how to quickly remove the desired objects.
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Jun 11, 2025
11:26 AM
@Virginia Photo: "Generative removal failed. We detected a problem with your results. Please check our guidelines and try again." To see the "guidelines", click the miniscule "?" icon in the upper-right corner of the Remove panel and then click Generative AI User Guidelines. Adobe's AI is a repressed Victorian and often faints at the slightest hint of skin or small children. In geek speak, it has a high false-positive rate for adult and child p o r n (not allowed to type that in the forum), making it unsuitable for many kinds of innocuous professional use.
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Jun 11, 2025
11:20 AM
@Erik36545164gcm6: "when an update arrives, will there the published a document/list of things that have been addressed so I can find out if the issue is solved?" Do the LR menu command Help > What's New to get a low-density marketing overview with a link to the fixed issues. Or visit here for a higher-density, generally more complete list: https://www.lightroomqueen.com/whatsnew/
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Jun 10, 2025
07:54 PM
Unfortunately, there have been many, many reports about Denoise "Uknown error", most of which don't have posted solutions or workarounds. The few that do don't apply here, e.g. out-of-date graphics drivers. It's unfortunate that LR doesn't log more details about the "unknown" error -- it has those details but the programmers weren't motivated to record them.
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Jun 10, 2025
07:30 PM
Another report of similar symptoms: https://community.adobe.com/t5/lightroom-classic-bugs/%E3%82%AB%E3%83%A9%E3%83%BC%E3%83%A9%E3%83%99%E3%83%AB%E3%81%A7%E3%81%AE%E9%81%B8%E6%8A%9E%E3%81%8C%E3%81%A7%E3%81%8D%E3%81%AA%E3%81%84/idc-p/15364915#M61555
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Jun 10, 2025
07:30 PM
"I can't select using color labels when editing: The color label display sometimes appears and sometimes doesn't. Please tell me how to fix this. (The flag and ★ display also have the same problem.)" Someone else reported similar symptoms last week: https://community.adobe.com/t5/lightroom-classic-discussions/color-labels-not-working/m-p/15357144
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Jun 10, 2025
07:27 PM
Please do the LR menu command Help > System Info and copy/paste the entire contents here so we can see exactly which versions of hardware and software LR thinks you're running and important LR options that are set.
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Jun 10, 2025
06:13 PM
Building on that, another cause of computer crashes is overheating due to a faulty cooling system, e.g. fans that aren't spinning or fan vents that are clogged. You can download a free CPU temperature utility to monitor the temperature of your CPU/GPU as you use LR (which uses a lot of power and generates a lot of heat).
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Jun 10, 2025
06:07 PM
2 Upvotes
As Axel requested, please do the LR menu command Help > System Info and copy/paste the entire contents here so we can see exactly which versions of hardware and software LR thinks you're running and important LR options that are set.
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Jun 10, 2025
05:15 PM
With your sample .arw, preset, and profile, I'm not able to reproduce the problem in my LR 14.3.1 / Mac OS 15.5. Here are the steps I took: 1. Do File > Import. 2. Select the .arw. 3. Set Apply During Import > Develop Settings to the preset Sony A7CR 100-12800 adaptive Preset 2204 11 27 V1. 4. Select the option Copy As DNG. 5. When the import completes, I observe that the imported DNG has that preset selected, with Profile: Linear-Sony ILCE-7CR, and all the slider settings set by the preset. See the attached screen recording. Are you doing different steps? Perhaps a full-resolution screen recording (not a phone video) of the entire LR window showing what's happening would clarify. If Adobe can't reproduce the problem easily, they won't pay attention.
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Jun 09, 2025
11:58 PM
"I saw some errors in the logs and thought about just reloading Adobe Camera Raw. I found instructions here: https://helpx.adobe.com/camera-raw/kb/camera-raw-plug-in-installer.html After I reloaded the subsystem I saw less errors in the logs and it worked just as it had in the past. Yea!!" That's very curious -- Camera Raw is built-in to LR, so reinstalling the Camera Raw plugin to Photoshop normally doesn't affect LR. But glad it's now working for you!
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Jun 09, 2025
11:08 PM
"whether Lightroom should be able to recover this data if the folder wasn’t backed up" Yes, LR should be able to recompute the exact AI masks, Generative Remove replacements, and enhanced-profile LUTs if the .lrcat-data file has been removed or not recovered. LR sometimes corrupts that file, and a workaround is to delete it, restart LR, select all photos, do Update AI Settings, and then wait a long time while LR recomputes everything. A few people have reported that when they do that, they're not getting back the same exact masks and removes, though I'm mildly skeptical of these reports.
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Jun 09, 2025
11:02 PM
"I also came across some mentions that .lrcat-data can be related to LUTs and/or Look tables. " An "enhanced profile" (sometimes called "creative profiles"), a .xmp file that appears in the Profile browser, can contain LUTs. The LUTs get copied into the .lrcat-data file. If you delete the .lrcat-data file, LR will get the LUT from the enhanced profile (.xmp file), as long as it's still accessible. There's more detail about this in my posts in the long thread that Rob linked to.
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Jun 09, 2025
10:56 PM
I'm trying to reproduce the issue you're observing. But the preset you attached, "Sony A7CR 100-12800 adaptive Preset 2204 11 27 V1", applies a camera profile "Linear-Sony ILCE-7CR". You'll need to share that file as well. It's a .dcp file, so you probably can't attach it here. Instead, upload the file to Wetransfer, Dropbox, Google Drive or similar free service and post the sharing link here. To find the file, in Finder do Go > Go To Folder and copy/paste this line into Go To Folder: ~/Library/Application Support/Adobe/CameraRaw/CameraProfiles/Imported
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