Lightroom Classic: After adjusting on one image, the exact edits for that image, masks and all, were applied to all other images

Maybe you accidentally hit Com-A and selected all? Darker grey not selected, middle Grey selected, bright grey the active shot.

Oh boy, that's a killer if true.  I am in LR 7.5 with Mojave right now.  I will attempt to replicate.

When you state "...all other images..." what exactly are the parameters?  Everything in your catalog, or the current working folder or collection?

There were a whole "Synchronize Local Adjustments" in the History, so I suspected multiple selected images as well. And I did discover after trying to replicate that at some point all the images in my Smart Collection were indeed selected, but not on purpose. So, thankfully it was a case of some editing steps done on multiple images, that were unintentionally selected. I am always careful to avoid this, unless in the selection process (N). (I was able to backtrack wrongful edits on the other images,)

1 - Could be wrong, but I don't think Mojave is officially supported yet, so you're putting yourself in a bit of a use at your own risk situation.

2 - Any chance you had multiple images selected and Auto Sync turned on?  That would explain the behavior you described.


3 - You should be able to go to the History panel and step back the changes to your image(s).  Not the best solution if you changed tons of images, but still workable.

The poor guy had autosync on and watch out! Adobe haters gotta hate! Chill peeps! It’s not always Adobe’s fault, you know!

True, but more often than not it is their fault based upon the numerous bugs in the LR 7.x releases...and Adobe's lack of effort to address issues which have been known for years. Read the posts in this forum where Adobe actually acknowledges the issues.  They are there.  Period.

It's one thing to make your living as a pundit or an author of Lightroom help texts and another to be a professional photographer who places their livelihood in Adobes' hands and sees no improvement from one realease to another.

Every hour I spend working around Lightrooms' faults costs me money, so please forgive me if I tend to look in the direction of Palo Alto when I want to discover the source of the problem.

Maybe it’s not Adobe’s lack of effort, maybe they’re trying real hard, all the time. Not being a coder, I don’t really know how hard it is to make a huge program that sits on top of a huge operating system, but I’m guessing it’s real hard so I cut the bugs some slack. I have worked with coders, and I know their work ethic and pride. As a Mac IT Pro for 25 years, I don’t seem to have as much a problem as some people on this board, because I know sometimes the problem is with the operating system, (or the user!) and I’m always doing updates and maintenance (like with your car) and therefore not always Adobe’s fault. That being said, I know how lousy their Creative Cloud authentication servers have been over the years, so that must also be hard to get right. Some of their employees are photographers too, and they are in the “making money” business, so they sometimes have to make tough choices.


PS- I’m now a pro photographer who relies on Lightroom, still the best organizing/developing tool. I just need 64GB now to make it work well!