Cropping issues in Lightroom

I am having problems in Lightroom with photos not holding my crops. When I return to a photo that I have cropped previously, it automatically goes back to the original photo cropping when selected. I have LR 5. This is driving me crazy!! Is anyone else having this problem and what can I do to fix it?

I find that sometimes the full image is displayed while Lightroom is reading from the catalog. But the cropped version always displays in less than 1 second. If you want better help, provide some information (OS, Lightroom version, RAM, etc.).

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Have a look in the system.log file for a IOkit timeout.
I had a problem with my Imac from purchase, it turned out to be a problem with the firewire port.
If there is a IOkit Timeout during boot-up, check to see if your system profile can seethe firewire port okay(no warnings).
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system/library/extentions folder.
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I have been doing some tests and this is a rather odd issue I seem to be getting and I can't believe this is an Adobe oversight as it's a bit major and must be something I am missing.
I am going to explain exactly what I am doing to simulate this simple test, although please be aware this is appearing in my normal work flow and causing me some headaches.
I create a new RGB 72dpi 1000x1000 pixel artboard.
I draw a blue box 1000x10 pixels exactly at the top of the artboard.
I then export for web (ctrl+alt+shift+s) and select "crop to artboard" and have it set to 100% quality jpeg.
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I move the box down half a pixel so it's again back on the top of the box.
I now select the artboard tool and click on the blue box again, I notice that the artboard dimensions and position again exactly matches the blue box.
I click export for web again and again only the blue box is selected, BUT this time I have a 50% (seemingly) transparant pixel line on the top of the blue box, which in JPEG mode makes a light blue line. If I switch to transparant PNG instead of JPEG I have a semi transparant blue line at the top.
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Now let me explain why this is a real pain in my work flow: I design websites in Illy. It's effectivly the tool I use to bring all my elements together, I use PS for advanced image editing, Word for writing my text etc and Illy for putting the pages together, formatting the text, creating the graphics etc. Now all this worked fine in CS3 because I could have something 11px high and have it start on a full pixel (as it works in HTML) and just create a crop box for it when I was exporting. It all worked wonderfully. So what I want to know is am I missing some option in Illy that makes it as good as it was? I love the idea of the artboards but this cropping issue seems like a step backwards and is giving me substandard output like I used to get from ImageReady years ago. If I draw a crisp edge, that is what I want comming out the other end.
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I am going to reply o this if you make a circle and you make an artboard for that page and save it for the web you will crop half a pixel off the bottom and right sides if you increase the art board by a little over one third pixel all will be fine you get the whole circle.
This was happening to you as well but since it was a rectangle you did not notice it, Now to the problem you mention I would say it was related and that why you don't see it until you move it down is related to the problem that is happening at he bottom and you only see it when it is brought into view as you did.
So what can be done about it?
Adjust it manually make notes of the adjustment and write a script to adjust any artwork to accommodate the discrepancy.
As to you disbelief that Adobe would allow this to get by I am with you we all are hence the reason no one else answered we accept this and wait for a fix and by then we will probably never even notice that the save for the web is fixed.
Everyone will be back on this thread with "Hey when they did they fixed this? Huh?
But until then Happy Trails To Us.

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are there any changes to the crop tool in new PS CS5, that enable a simliar cropping than the cool crop tool in Lightroom?
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Hi can anyone help, Crop problems in Lightroom

Whenever I work on a raw file in Lightroom 5 then open in CS5 for final tweaks the crops I made in Lightroom are not carried over into photoshop
although all other corrections are. Am I doing something wrong! I work on a Mac and all software is up to date

Rafael Aviles wrote:
Jim, when opening a raw file from LR into PS, there is no dialog offering the choice of "a Copy with LR adjustments". I believe those options are only for non-raw files.
I tried to replicate the OP's problem, but when I edit a raw file in PS after cropping and lens correcting (upright) in LR, the file opens fine in PS, with the crop and the upright showing up fine. I do have PS CC 2014, though, that's why I wondered if CS5 is capable of handling lens profile corrections. The OP stated that is just the Upright correction that does not carry over, not the crop.
The reason you don't see the dialogue offering the choice is because you are using CC, and everything between Photoshop and Lightroom is in sync. However, the OP is using Photoshop CS5 with Lightroom 5, and should be seeing that dialogue unless they have chosen the option not to ask again. Then Lightroom will simply make the choice that has been made. When Photoshop and Lightroom are not in sync that dialogue should display, even (maybe especially) for raw files. This response is sort of after-the-fact because it looks like the issue has been cleared up.

Why is the crop tool in Lightroom 5 so sluggish on my otherwise very fast machine?

I'm running a Macbook Pro Retina, new from this time last year. It's got 16gb RAM, a 768gb SSD (with about 150gb free space), and 2.8GHz processor. Everything else is lightening fast on my system. Lightroom is fine otherwise, but the crop tool is almost unusably slow. When I tap "R", it sometimes takes 5-10 seconds to load into crop mode, and another 5-10 seconds to load out of it.
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I've tried what other users recommended - using both full screen and not, updated to the latest version, restarted multiple times with no solution. Please help!

I was amazed at the amount of info you put into that post. Thanks for that effort.
I made sure Onyx was up-to-date and ran all the schemes you listed. That did nothing. However, reading further in your support thread gave me some ideas. I started looking into third party extensions and plugins. I recalled installing Silverlight a few days ago, for what reason I have no idea, since I trust Microsoft only marginally more than I trust Google. Which is to say, I don't trust either of them at all. So I threw that plugin into the trash.
I should have checked the performance right there, but I didn't. Right under Silverlight, you mentioned Flash. I decided to check the prefs on it, and found that it was set to allow sites to save info to my computer, and Camera/Mic and Playback were changed from "Block" to "Ask Me". I distinctly remember setting those for maximum privacy. I reset them, cleared all the files, and exited the prefs.
I just checked them again, and everything is changed back to allow Flash to have its way. Looks like I'll be uninstalling that now...
I also installed Acrobat recently, just to have an alternative to Preview. Sea Monkey opened an alert box just now, telling me to watch out for the Acrobat plugins, as they've been known to cause problems. Gotta love Adobe.
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