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Develop module strangeness....

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saddlehorngal

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I am having an issue with LR that I've never experienced before.

I tend to use the mouse rather than keyboard shortcuts and over the years have formed the habit of taking an image from the grid in the library module into the develop module by clicking on the word "Develop" in the module picker.

Currently, I'm reviewing (and tagging with an x, nothing at all, or a star) hundreds of images and I'm working fairly quickly. If I want to see a particular image in full resolution before making a decision on tagging it, and I click on the word Develop, more often than not I'm not getting the full develop panel, but rather just the image and the toolbar below it and no panels at all. If I go back to the grid and try again, it's fine. If I try for a different image all I get is the image and the toolbar again. If I use the keyboard command of D it seems to work well more often though sometimes all I'm getting is the image and the toolbar. What's going on and how can I get this to behave properly again?

Thanks!
Saddlehorngal
 
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Can you tell us your Lightroom version number please?
 
Make sure that the version is actually 2015.12. Help->About will tell you:
2017-09-12 17_53_24-5-2 - Adobe Photoshop Lightroom - Library.png
 
OK, next question. What OS are you using? Your profile indicates you're running Snow Leopard, which I don't think will run LRCC2015.12.
 
more often than not I'm not getting the full develop panel, but rather just the image and the toolbar below it and no panels at all.

I have seen this behaviour recently, to the utter frustration of the owner. While I cannot be definitive, I would put it down to a memory shortage, when too many apps were open and two many documents, emails etc in use. I sense that when Lightroom is not busy.... memory is borrowed by other apps and not returned when Lightroom next requires it.

I cannot be scientific about this, merely an observation. I do not have the skills / tools to dig into the Mac architecture.

Also ... maybe the machine was not rebooted for a while.
 
Nothing else running and I did restart LR and reboot computer yesterday to no avail. HOWEVER, just rebooted again and the problem SEEMS to have vanished. Hope all's well now....
:)
 
And could I ask that you update your profile?
 
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