LIGHTROOM: Automatic advance behavior

It sounds like you might have changed your sort from User Order (or whatever it was set to) to Edit Time A-Z

I can reproduce it on LR 4.3 (Win 7 64 Bit) with normal "sort: file name" and using the context menu (I think that was the point).

To reproduce e.g. in grid mode: Select one photo in the middle of the grid so it becomes the target photo, then use the context menu to change e.g. the color label of the first photo in the grid. The result is that the target advances one photo, which is kind of funny.

Auto advance should be ignored when using the context menu, perhaps except for the target photo.

By the way: There is another situation where auto advance does not make sense: When multiple photos are selected and being in grid mode (or in other modes with auto sync enabled): When setting rating/label/flags in this situation, the change is already applied to all selected photos, so it does not make sense to advance the target photo at all.

OK I can duplicate what you are seeing. I didn't catch that you were changing an attribute without selecting the photo That said, I don't believe it would be classified as a bug just an unexpected behavior but probably as designed.