and changing all the time – and crashing.Ī good program you can not trust to have data consistency, is not a good program.Īdobe has given all power to the marketing dept. I am woking hard to find adobe alternatives – Affinity and google cats + mac-photo or darktable…Īdobes biggest downside is the data formats are not backwards comp. I have found work arounds – but the Adobe way is – you think you have somthing that works – then updates crash everything – and support is not an adobe thing (even paying a yearly fee of 600us$/yr) hmmm These Lr-Cats (of around 20.000-50.000 pictures) also crash – and sometimes backups are not working. My prime Lr Cat is 500.000 photos, now split into different subjects and years. Webcopyes are still there – but not working – you can not edit (“working-weel” forever). I have lost ALL edits from my mobile devices – around 500 extensive edits.Ĭrashed synced catalog on labtop deleted all pictures from the original source(!) on my phone. Hopefully this won’t ever happen to you, but it has happened to me a few times, and so far, my catalog seems no worse for wear after all of the times I’ve had to rebuild the sync data file. Once you unpause syncing, it will go through its paces, and hopefully (fingers crossed) resolve whatever issue was holding syncing stuck in purgatory. Lightroom Classic will need to restart to create a new sync database file, and you will have to go back to the Activity Center under the Identity Plate and unpause syncing. While viewing the Lightroom Sync panel of the preferences, hold down the Option/Alt key and you will see the Rebuild Sync Data button appear.Ĭlick Rebuild Sync Data, and Lightroom Classic will warn you that this could take a long time (but not as long as sync being stuck forever), and click Continue. Here’s the trick, reserved only for those instances when you are certain that Syncing is stuck, and you want to break the log jam. Once it is done, you should see No sync activities in the panel.Īnother time, when things were not proceeding as normal, I had 8 photos that were stuck in Pending and 27 supposedly Downloading, except nothing was happening. Just giving this process a little more time and it completed without any intervention. In this situation I made some metadata changes to 4 synced photos, and that is what it means by Uploading under Sync Type and Metadata under Sync Details. The first thing I do is head over to Preferences > Lightroom Sync, and expand the Sync Activity panel at the bottom to see what’s happening.
I can’t tell you what is causing that, but I can give you some steps to consider when this happens to hopefully get it sorted. If you sync your Lightroom Classic catalog to the Lightroom cloud, then there may come a day in your future where the “Syncing photos” message seems to never go away.