bird whisperer Loc: Massachusetts

Hello Fellow Hedgehogs. Can anyone help me with Lightroom 6 crashing after post processing anything. If I remove photos in a catalog it crashes. Adjust exposure on one photo or synch many photos it crashes. Adobe doesn't support this version anymore. Only cloud subscriptions I'm told. I like Lightroom but exiting and restarting is time consuming. Tried other photo software and I'm hooked on Lightroom. Been using it for a while. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

Ron 717 Loc: Pennsylvania

My only suggestion is to try shutting down and restarting your computer, this cures a lot of issues for complaints like yours.
I lied about this being my only suggestion, I would also consider subscribing to Adobe LR/PS photography plan at $10.00 per month and have at your disposal the most updated version of LR/PS. That is not much more than a cup of coffee at one of the popular coffee houses that have lines of cars waiting in line at the drive through.

CHG_CANON Loc: the Windy City

What operating system are you running on? Do you have all the final maintenance applied, where the Help / About menu reports v6.14?

Did you investigate the ideas at: https://shotkit.com/lightroom-keeps-crashing/

Looking at my date-stamps, I had a problem in Nov 2021, although I forget the specifics. My Previews had become corrupt, probably an unexpected power outage to the computer (or Windows Blue Screen of Death) with the LR software / catalog open. The solution was to delete the previews folder (Lightroom Catalog Previews.lrdata) and run a batch rebuild of the previews. That's a long-running process that took more than overnight for my 90K+ images. All I remember is I googled the issue I was having and found that as the recommended fix. My LR6.14 has worked fine since then on a Win10 machine (two boxes in fact). The command is Library / Build Standard Sized Previews.

For the link above, one of the early suggestions is to optimize your catalog. That won't fix a corrupted previews issues, but I'd start there before the larger process of deleting the previews and rebuilding.

pithydoug Loc: Catskill Mountains, NY

I think you know the answer. Check to see the system requirements for the LR/PS subscription and if your system is robust enough, upgrade. If you want to verify, get the trial version. If the trial version flops, sounds like your under powered.

In your quandary, try rebooting your system. Check to see you don't have a applications running that you don't need and chewing up resources like memory. If Win, use your task manager to see what is running all kill the stuff you know you don't need.

Capn_Dave

Try turning the graphics processor off. Go to Lightroom > Preferences > Performance tab > Uncheck "Use Graphics Processor" > Restart Lightroom.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

How about uninstalling and reinstalling? Before you remove it, be sure to unregister it - or whatever they call it.

CHG_CANON Loc: the Windy City

Before you screw-up everything with this wild idea of uninstalling, you should (a) exhaust all other ideas and (b) assure you have all of the original installation files (and point-updates) and (c) know your Adobe credentials as needed to access the Adobe.com website.

Unsupported software should never be uninstalled lest you cannot re-install. The problem likely exists outside the unsupported software, not inside.

DWU2 Loc: Phoenix Arizona area

Time to say goodbye to old LR6. For a ten bucks a month subscription, you get LR Classic, LR cloudy, full Photoshop, your own web site. If ten bucks seems like a lot, what are you spending on streaming services, Starbucks, increasingly irrelevant print media, etc.?

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

Every time I get a new computer, I install LR6 from the original download file. So far, so good.

CHG_CANON Loc: the Windy City

You have it. Someone else, the more typical population, doesn't. And if they just assume they can download a fresh copy as-needed, they discover they can't. And then, they really wish they'd thought more about where they get their advice on dealing with problems in unsupported software.

jaymatt Loc: Alexandria, Indiana

My LR 6 does the same thing, as did my older 5.7 version. I have tried re-booting, refreshing, etc., but nothing works. For me, it happens most often when I ask LR to open a plug-in. Since I am not interested in moving to a subscription, I have found my solution: I just live with it--my computer and I have a mutual understanding that it’s going to happen from time to time.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

It must be that timer that Adobe hid in their software kicking in.

Although I use LR6 regularly, it's not the only show in town. I can do the same things with other programs. I'm not trying to do magic through processing. My pictures are so outstandingly good right out of the camera that they hardly need any processing.

jaymatt Loc: Alexandria, Indiana