LR 6 suddenly, cannot open pictures in Develop. Blue Screen, was working fine.. Hi all, went to pp some pictures and LR 6 will not open "Develop" screen only shows blue screen with a...

lehighjack Loc: somewhere in FL

Hi all,
went to pp some pictures and LR 6 will not open "Develop" screen only shows blue screen with a rectanular "X" OK, what did i do?what can i do. next post i will use more upper case, lazy today and frustrated...

Searcher Loc: Kent, England

lehighjack wrote:

Hi all,
went to pp some pictures and LR 6 will not open "Develop" screen only shows blue screen with a rectanular "X" OK, what did i do?what can i do. next post i will use more upper case, lazy today and frustrated...

Have fever this this before so I'm guessing.

Assuming the Library is working OK:

Back up your catalogue before doing anything else.

Close Lightroom and relaunch with Option + Shift (Mac) | Alt + Shift (Win) allows resetting of preferences when launching Lightroom. (Launch the app and then immediately hold down the keyboard shortcut keys.)

Now goto to Preferences > Performance and ensure the Use Graphics Processor is switched OFF

Now in the Library, select an image, bring it up to full size, choose Develop Module.

What happens?

juicesqueezer Loc: Okeechobee, Florida

Searcher; just launched lightroom 6 and no Library or Develop mode. Says it can't recognize any of the files I just uploaded from the CF card. Something may be going on with lightroom site? First time this has happened to me. Will wait until tomorrow and see if all is working.

Searcher Loc: Kent, England

juicesqueezer wrote:

Searcher; just launched lightroom 6 and no Library or Develop mode. Says it can't recognize any of the files I just uploaded from the CF card. Something may be going on with lightroom site? First time this has happened to me. Will wait until tomorrow and see if all is working.

Lightroom does not work from the cloud. The software is on your computer and does not require the internet on all the time.

Did you do any of the things I suggested?

A computer reboot is also in order.

drharveys Loc: Holly Springs, NC

lehighjack wrote:

Hi all,
went to pp some pictures and LR 6 will not open "Develop" screen only shows blue screen with a rectanular "X" OK, what did i do?what can i do. next post i will use more upper case, lazy today and frustrated...

You may want to visit lightroom forums.com for an excellent resource for everything Lightroom. Lots of great questions and answers and turn around time is pretty quick.

Mick 53 Loc: Minneapolis

Hello Searcher,
Very glad to see you back on the form. We have missed your advice and comments.

Hope all is well Mick

Capn_Dave

I would suggest you working with Searcher on this. He always beats me to the punch, and advice is spot on.
It would also help if you would tells us what the operating system of your computer is and version of Lightroom

lehighjack Loc: somewhere in FL

Searcher wrote:

Lightroom does not work from the cloud. The software is on your computer and does not require the internet on all the time.

Did you do any of the things I suggested?

A computer reboot is also in order.

Searcher, it worked! I do not know how this issue started. Your advice, as usual, was spot on. Again, thank you.

birdpix Loc: South East Pennsylvania

One of the reasons for getting a blue screen in LR CC comes when you have LR trying to use a non existent graphics card. CC can be set up to speed things up in the Develop module by using your computers graphics accelerator card to do some of the processing. LR CC is shipped with this feature turned on sometimes. If you don't have a graphics card or it is not working then LR gives you the blue screen when you try to use the develop module. Go to Edit/Preferences/Performance and make sure the check box for "Use Graphics Processor" is unchecked.

lehighjack Loc: somewhere in FL

Capn_Dave wrote:

I would suggest you working with Searcher on this. He always beats me to the punch, and advice is spot on.
It would also help if you would tells us what the operating system of your computer is and version of Lightroom

Oops, Win 7 and newest iteration of LR CC. Cannot figure out why it occurred, there were other changes to the program as well, I just adjusted those that I could. Darn blue screen drove me nuts. Searcher's suggestion fixed ALL the issues. Thanks for your helpful respose.

lehighjack Loc: somewhere in FL

birdpix wrote:

One of the reasons for getting a blue screen in LR... (show quote)

I bet that was the cause of the issue. I do not recall checking a box but...? Maybe I did. Thanks for the Info.

mborn Loc: Massachusetts

lehighjack wrote:

Searcher, it worked! I do not know how this issue started. Your advice, as usual, was spot on. Again, thank you.

Yea again for Seacher he is the BEST :thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup:

birdpix Loc: South East Pennsylvania

lehighjack wrote:

Oops, Win 7 and newest iteration of LR CC. Cannot figure out why it occurred, there were other changes to the program as well, I just adjusted those that I could. Darn blue screen drove me nuts. Searcher's suggestion fixed ALL the issues. Thanks for your helpful respose.

Do you have a graphics card in your computer? I wonder if you had a glitch in that card that was fixed by the re-boot?

mborn Loc: Massachusetts

BTW I reboot my computer everyday It works faster

lloydl2 Loc: Gilbert, AZ

I've had this happen a few times to me as well. A particular photo I am working on in develop goes blue with a large X running through it. I find it generally happens if LR is running for a long time without a restart and I often get around it by toggling the edit preferences/performance use graphics processor either from on to off or if it's off back to on. and then first chance I get I restart LR and all is fine.