Lightroom Freezes

Lightroom 5.0 freezes when I attampt to import photos. After shutting lightroom down using Windows Task Manager, Lightroom will not open

If LR was shut down with the Task Manager, it likely left a Lock file hanging.
Find the location of the LR catalog that had to be manually shut down. In the same folder should be a file that looks like this yourcatalogname.LOCK.
Delete this Lock file and Lightroom should open.

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Help! Lightroom freezes after installing.

I get this message after trying to create or open a catalog: "An error occured when attemting to change modules." Then Lightroom freezes.
I work on a Mac and have formatted and reinstalled my systemdisk with a qlean install. I had Lightroom installed and have used it for some years. But when installing the programs again I went for the Creative Cloud solution. When I tried to open my previous catalog I got this error message. And after several deinstallings and reinstallings I still get the same message and Lightroom freezes.
Anyone who can help?

Hi Ian.
Thank you for answering. But I find no such file in Preferences. I think Lightroom freezes before making the preference file. Other solutions?
Best wishes,
Magne
6. okt. 2012 kl. 11:43 skrev Ian Lyons <[email protected]>:
Re: Help! Lightroom freezes after installing.
created by Ian Lyons in Photoshop Lightroom - View the full discussion
Have you tried trashing the Lr preference file? More details of location at http://forums.adobe.com/thread/358041?tstart=0
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NVidia video card- Lightroom freezes at startup, stalls, crashes when switching modules [Windows]

Issue: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom freezes when you start, crashes when you switch between modules, displays blank screens in Slideshows, stalls frequently or runs extremely slowly.
Solution: The nVIDIA nView Multi-Display Technology software (also known as nView Desktop Manager) is known to cause these symptoms. If you have this software installed, please see following Technote for resolution of problem.

Okay, I ended up replacing nouveau with the nvidia proprietary drivers. I did a full update of my system, which I hadn't been able to do in over a month because of catalyst's conflict with xorg, and managed to get X working (sort of). The only issue is that once X starts, and brings me to slim, the keyboard ceases to respond. If I turn the numlock on before X starts, it turns off as soon as X starts. Ctrl-Alt-Delete doesn't do anything either. Not really sure where to go from here other than to switch to vesa or something
EDIT: I tried installing the beta driver as well, but nothing changed.
Last edited by Sotanaht (2012-05-17 00:00:59)

Every time I try to import photos, lightroom freezes, then crashes

Every time I try to import photos, lightroom freezes, then crashes. Any ideas? Thanks.

Thanks DdeGannes for the heads up- I knew that this was user-generated, but didn't know that Adobe doesn't reply directly.
Anyways, here's my exact query from another forum pasted (it's a lot of info to retype):
I haven't used LR 5.3 since December, and between then and now I reformatted my computer and reinstalled my basic program set. I haven't added any new programs, and if anything my current set-up should be the same as it was in December minus extra temp file bloat and a few extraneous programs.
Fast forward to today (after taking some new photos). I open up LR, and try to import but the program hangs and eventually crashes. The exact issue can be seen in this youtube video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wg0uQvVoZYw
Thinking it was a bad installation, I proceeded to remove LR, and reinstall it. No dice.
Thinking it was a driver/program conflict issue, I booted into Safe Mode and tried to import. No dice.
I'm all out of ideas. It looks like the issue is fairly common (judging by the number of new help threads on the Adobe Community Forums. Does anyone have any experience, or better yet, any fixes for this particular issue?
In case anyone asks, my general computer set-up is below:
Windows 7 Pro 64-bit
LR 5.3
AMD Phenom II X6 1055T
8GB Ram
128GB OCZ Agility 3 SSD
1TB WD Green HD (where photos and catalog live)
Thanks in advance!

Lightroom freezes during file import

Hi,
When I try to import photos from a drive or my camera, Lightroom freezes, often while attempting to import the first photo. Any ideas of what the problem might be?
I'm using a Mac desktop and Lightroom 1.4.1.
Thanks!

Thanks a lot! That´s it!
It took me a while to understand what you had meant and to find out, where and how to change the default setting. I did not change the preset intentionally before and I´m quite sure that LR 5.7 did not do so. There is a faint suspicion that it was done by an OS X update. Perfectly horrible!
Thankful regards
Rabenschleuder

Lightroom freezes when exporting catalog

Hello, I have lightroom 5.7, I use an iMac OSX 10.9.5. When I export my entire collection 40,000.00 images and catalog to another external hard drive, lightroom freezes in mid session. Last night I updated to OS X 10.10.1 Thank you!

How do you go to the Web Module? Do you go from the grid with all your images, potentially hundreds to thousands of images or do you first make a Collection of you chosen images, More likely to be tens to maybe couple hundred of images.
If the former, LR maybe hanking on the renderign of so many images to what ever initial template Web is set for.
Best to do a selection of images to a Collection First. What happens if you go to Web with a Collecion of say, 50 images?
Don
Don Ricklin, MacBook 1.83Ghz Duo 2 Core running 10.4.10 & Win XP, Pentax *ist D
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Lightroom freezes when I enter WEB mode

Hi, I have another question. I find that Lightroom freezes when I enter WEB mode and try to build a web presentation using this feature. I'm currently running XP as my operating system, 4 gb RAM, with an AMD DualCore 4600+ processor.
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How do you go to the Web Module? Do you go from the grid with all your images, potentially hundreds to thousands of images or do you first make a Collection of you chosen images, More likely to be tens to maybe couple hundred of images.
If the former, LR maybe hanking on the renderign of so many images to what ever initial template Web is set for.
Best to do a selection of images to a Collection First. What happens if you go to Web with a Collecion of say, 50 images?
Don
Don Ricklin, MacBook 1.83Ghz Duo 2 Core running 10.4.10 & Win XP, Pentax *ist D
http://donricklin.blogspot.com/

Has anyone experienced Lightroom freezing or hanging on every command?

Has anyone experienced Lightroom freezing or hanging on every command?

Hello
Lightroom 5.7.1
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2.5 GHz Intel Core i5 12 GB 1333 MHz DDR3 AMD Radeon HD 6750M 512 MB
iMac 21.5-inch Mid 2011
98GB free disk space
Lightroom boots up fine and thumb nails load quickly however as soon as you attempt to do anything including scrolling it freezers (rainbow wheel) on every task. It takes around 40sec for the rainbow wheel to stop however as soon as you try another function it freezers again.
My Lightroom library sits on an external USB 3 Seagate hard drive (This drive is only two days old)
For the record I have been having the same problem with iPhoto and the new Photos. apple have been working on solving the issues with no result as yet unfortunately.
kind regards

Lightroom freezes my PC completely

Hello,
My harddrive got formatted yesterday and so I'm working on a clean system.
I'm experiencing the full system crash when working in Lightroom. Mouse freezes, neither ctrl+alt+del or any other ways work so each time it happens only the reset button does the job.
It may helps that this error isn't triggered by a particular action, clicking somewhere, etc. It's fully random.
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Photoshop and Lightroom freezing with supported graphics card

Good Morning,
I'm looking for some help to correct a problem. I'm sending this request to Adobe, Asus, Corsair, and Intel. I'm a professional photographer and this is my new computer to support the Nikon D800.
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When working in both Photoshop (CS5) and Lightroom 4 my computer is freezing and I'm having to do a kill restart to unfreeze the computer. This is happening when doing simple processes like panting with the air brush in Photoshop.
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Up dated graphics card drivers, and Windows, check and unchecked Open GL Draw but it freeze in both setting. Follow all of Adobe's set up guide lines. Follow the recommendations from NAPP. Had some bad sticks of ram waiting on Corsair RMA replacement. Computer has 16 GB of ram in it at the current time but the freezing characteristics are the same with 64 GB and 16 GBs of ram.
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I am running Win 7 Prof on a Xeon processor with 12 GB RAM. Occasionally I experience random freezes of my system but as far as I can tell neither Lr nor Photoshop are involved.
I never found a cause since my Event Viewer does not give any error messages.
I have searched the Win 7 forum at http://www.sevenforums.com/#windows-7-help-support
and found this: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2575077
They say they fixed it with a hotfix but it seems it still does occur. My last freeze was on May 3, 2012.

Lightroom freezes within 15 minutes of activity and process cannot end

Hi all,
This is driving me absolutely crazy at the moment.
Some time ago Lightroom started freezing, it didn't matter too much what screen was involved. I'd be editing a photo or even doing something outside of lightroom and lightroom would become unresponsive and wouldn't display the current image etc.
It would allow you to close it, however the process would stay open in the task manager. No matter how one tries to close the tree or process, it totally ignores these requests and requires a reboot to resume work. This also happens while using photoshop with lightroom open - the two programs freezing in tandem.
Does anyone have any diagnostics I could try? I have tried doing memory checks on the drive with no problem showing, I have run registry cleaning / ccleaner and so on. There is no spyware or viruses operating.
The reliability monitor does not show these crashes. I am unaware of anything that was installed or uninstalled or when this specifically started happening.
There have been a few driver power state failure blue screens while using lightroom (although nowhere near as many as the simple freezes). Unable to diagnose the problem with this I uninstalled and reinstalled lightroom. I have tried both 4.4 and the new 5 in the hope that maybe something was fixed. My display drivers I am pretty sure are up to date also.
A few dxdiag for anyone that might be able to help.
System Model: Dell System XPS L702X
BIOS: Default System BIOS
Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2760QM CPU @ 2.40GHz (8 CPUs), ~2.4GHz
Memory: 16384MB RAM
Available OS Memory: 16344MB RAM
Page File: 3332MB used, 29354MB available
Windows Dir: C:\Windows
DirectX Version: DirectX 11
Display Devices
          Card name: NVIDIA GeForce GT 555M
       Manufacturer: NVIDIA
          Chip type: GeForce GT 555M
           DAC type: Integrated RAMDAC
         Device Key: Enum\PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_124D&SUBSYS_05701028&REV_A1
     Display Memory: 4095 MB
   Dedicated Memory: 3034 MB
      Shared Memory: 1061 MB

Looks like I'll try tech support when I can get them Thanks to all the readers who checked it out anyhow.

Lightroom freezes while opening certain catalogs

While I was helped tremedously by the Adobe Tech Support to unfreeze my catalogs, the issue returns. In order to unfreeze, I have to move my preview folder to the desktop (or another folder) and reopoen the catalog. This recreates the previews and allows the catalog to work.k I've cleared the catalog cache, set the previews to medium, set the default to discrad 1:1 preview every thrty days, all in an attempt to avoid the "freeze." But, it still occurs. if I have to reopen the catalof after a time. The catalog has over 30000 images and is an integral tool in my research on fin whales in NY. What can I do to avoid this pain in the butt problem?
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Hi Susan,
The Adobe plugin in Internet Explorer is a bit different from the one in Firefox, however they're all made by Adobe and they usually come with Adobe Reader.
When you open a PDF file in Firefox, it "calls" Adobe Reader to help it read the file. In this case, the Adobe Reader takes over, and it is responsible for freezing your browser.
I suggest you try the last 4 solutions presented on the [[Opening PDF files within Firefox]] (start with "Re-install the plugin" through "Re-install Adobe Reader").
Good Luck :D

Import photos-choose folder then Lightroom freezes

Everything was working fine until I decided to upgrade to 1.3.1. Did so and then when I wanted to (during import) choose a folder for my import the program freezes. I uninstalled to 1.3. Still same problem. Then I uninstalled everything with Lightroom (even regedit) so I had to rewrite my serialnumber during install - still the same problem. What has happened?

Thanks for the input. I think though that the problem was the following: I had started a backup of catalog thing. It might be so that it wasn´t ready (even if I thought so) before I started to upgrade to 1.3.1. So the upgrade messed around with something. Now it works, but I had to change several times in the Import Photos "screen". Change between the different possibilities and different files to import. (Chant some old shaman songs not to mention to recite the Kirchoff´s Laws was something that I did in the end - I think that actually did the trick).
But it could of course be something completely different.

Lightroom freezes when i click import button

how do i keep lightroom from freezing when i click import button. right now it is worthless. adobe technical support is no help

F. McLion wrote:
You are copying the photos. Does LR have the permission to delete the files from its source location - as DdeGannes suggested? Maybe this dialog is misleading.
Did you try to just add files copied to the destination before - just for finding the issue?
If nothing helps: Any chance you can upload one of the jpg to some file sharing service so we can have look at it?
I believe DdeGannes suggested permission on the Destination folder (not the source folder). Performing a copy requires only Read&Write permission on the destination folder, not the source folder. You need to go into your operating system and change the permissions to Read&Write on the destination folder. (If you don't know how to do that, go to your favorite search engine and type in Change Permissions Mac)

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