Lightroom 5 changes crop history

Question

so I keep having a problem where I crop inlightroom, get a photo all set, move on to the next one and then come back and it automatically reverts back to the crop before the final, so I have to go back one stop in the history to where I actually left.  I am not sure why it is automatically undoing my final crop but is SOO annoying! Anyone have a clue how to stop it?

Answer 1

Chas Clark wrote:
Also, in Lightroom 5, when I go back using 'History' and find a version I like; how do I lock that in.  That is how do I ignore/delete the most recent changes I no longer want?
You can go to the history step you want and make a small change like +1 clarity and then -1 clarity and it will get rid if the history steps above these steps.
Another way is to use ROB COLE's "Clear Top" Preset.
Create an empty preset called "Clear Top" by going into develop and hitting the + button in presets and when the dialog opens clear ALL the checkboxes, name it Clear Top, and then hit Create.   Find the" Clear Top.lrtemplate" file and open it in a text editor and change it to look as follows.
s = {
          id = "1111111111111",
          internalName = "Clear Top",
          title = "Clear Top",
          type = "Develop",
          value = {
                    settings = {
                              NoEdit = true,
                    uuid = "1111111111",
          version = 0,
The id and uuid will be different so leave them alone.   I you created a truly EMPTY preset, the only thing you will have to add is the
NoEdit = true          line.
save the edits to the same file name and reload lightroom.   Make sure ONLY the above code is in the listing although with different id and uuid numbers so you won't be applying other settings.
From now on, you can just hit the "Clear Top" preset and it will clear all history steps above the one you have chosen.  This is my most used preset!!!!    Thanks to ROB COLE for this idea.