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Short Story. there are significant problems with the Book module in the CC Classic release 8. Use an earlier version or once you start a Book, don’t touch photos in the Develop module.
I use the Classic version on Windows. After the recent release of version 8, I began experiencing major problems. When I left the Book module to do any editing in the Develop module, then returned to the Book module, one or more of the photos I had placed in the book was no longer visible. It was not always the photo I had edited. I tried to resolve the problem by using another Windows laptop and another disk drive with the same catalog. I had the same unwanted result.
The Adobe Help staff took over my computer and produced the same result (three technicians during three sessions). During the first 3 sessions, despite “escalation” of my “issue” to end the session and uploading several copies of my catalog, they never seemed willing to believe that the Lightroom software could be at fault. At their suggestion, I restarted my book from scratch several times. Each of the first three sessions had the same unsuccessful and frustrating results. My problem was escalated a third time and after about a week I did receive a call and email. I called back only to find they had no solution for the escalated problem. Every session was starting from square one. During the last session, a young lady helper took over my computer and again re-produced the problem. Unlike the others techs, she tried something new. She hinting that other users were having problems with the Book module since the release of 8.0 version. She uninstalled the newest version and reinstalled version 7.3. That seems to have eliminated my problems. In total, I was on the phone over 4 hours during the sessions (not counting hold time).
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I can confirm thee issues with the Book Module in Lightroom Classic CC Version 8 on Mac. Any edits are not considered and if you change your collections the book pages are empty. Got it solved by going back to version 7.5.
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Unfortunately, even rolling back to 7.5 or 7.3 doesn't help me.
I add a photo to a page and then about 10 to 15 seconds later it shows in my unused photos - even though it is still showing on the page in the book module. If I export to PDF there will be a blank where the photo was however.
I've tried deleting the pages. Re-creating new pages. Removing the photos and then adding them again.
Nothing seems to make any difference.
This is so incredibly frustrating.
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I too can confirm that there is a serious issue in the Book Module of the latest upgrade of Lightroom Classic version 8 for Mac. The first indication of trouble was when suddenly, half way through a book, I couldn't add or modify text. When I deleted the problem pages and replaced them, the photos in the new pages disappeared. Impossible to finish my first book in a multi-volume series of books. Very annoying as I had budgeted a hunk of time for this project which now I can't work on. Adobe needs to fix this, and Blurb is losing revenue and should apply some pressure. I'll try to revert to a previous version of LR Classic. NOT GOOD.
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I have another post Photos disappearing from Book - with a similar issue.
I was going back to edit photos in develop mode while compiling the book, so as suggested, perhaps that is the trigger. Either way, once the issue starts in LR, wherever I am up to in the book is fine, but all new photos or edits will be forgotten when I change modules.
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I too have the same problem. I made duplicates of books I have printed through Blurb and try to change the duplicate only to have all of the changes and additions deleted when I leave the book for any reason. It is very frustrating and I was unable to take advantage of the Blurb 50% off sale because of the lightroom bug.
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Just tried reverting to Lightroom 7.5 and it worked.
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Reverted to LR 7.3 and it seems to be working. The crazy behavior of individual pages has stopped, but I've yet to upload a book to Blurb. The proof will be in the pudding.
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I can confirm this serious issue in the Book Module CC 8. Very annoying, as I wanted to create the yearly family book. Does anybody knows if Adobe has accepted this issue as a bug?
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dirkw70264320 When I spoke to adobe they knew nothing of the issue and seemed to think it was just a fluke with my installation.
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The option to use titles based on metadata id not working - MacOS, latest updates.
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Same for me. Latest LR classic 8.0. I rotate an image and randomly pages and/or images are gone....
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Here is a vdo. In the beginning ingot 5-6 pages. I crop, go back and all is gone. Lost 1 hour work by this.
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Nothing has worked for me. 7.5, cache, pref-reset. Nothing. the best I can tell, the problem is more prevalent with custom page layouts. That's where most of my errors are happening.
Here is a screencap of the weirdness. photos are showing up twice but are tagged with a 1 for being placed once. before switching to the dev module, they were different photos. If I delete one, it deletes from both places.
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Been using LR 8.1 and it appears so far that the issues I was running into have been resolved. Was even able to open a "corrupt LR catalog" that previously was stuck in the book module and it is now functioning. Have not yet seen any responses or comments from Adobe on this or any other threads acknowledging the issue / update.
The one other issue that would be great to see resolved is that the Book Module only works with Blurb - I know you can print to PDF but have not seen that as a high quality solution......
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I am having major problems uploading Lightroom-produced books to Blurb. I don’t know if the problem is unique to my system or more widespread. A Deember 25 posting in another thread (Blurb Changes Finished Pages by Itself) may indicate I am not alone. This is a follow-up to my November 28 posting here; not sure if I'm violating any Forum rules but am posting to the other thread as well in the hope of getting attention from Adobe or Blurb.
I have created quite a few Lightroom/Blurb books in the past with minimal problems. That happy situation came to an end with LR 8.0 and its problems in the book module. I am now using LR 8.1 but now I can't upload properly to Blurb. I can now create books with no problem and publish them in pdf format with Lightroom, but I cannot upload my current 112 page book to Blurb- the upload "stalls" or "hangs" when the upload bar is at about the 80% complete point. About a dozen attempts over a two-week period have produced the same result- the upload hanging at the same 80% point. When I click on the stalled bar, I get a message reading "waiting for Blurb server processing."
Significantly, I AM able to upload the book in thirty ot forty page segments, apparently indicating that there is nothing in the individual photos or texts preventing a succesful upload and the file is not corrupted. As a control, I uploaded the LR-produced pdf of the entire book to Dropbox in about 15 minutes with no problem.
As another test, I tried uploading to Blurb copies of books I had succesfully uploaded and published in the past. One stalled at the 80% point, one uploaded successfully but slowly and with many error messages before completion.
On December 14 the Blurb Help Center published a note entitled "Lightroom Upload Problems." (Interestingly, Lightroom 8.1 became available on or about December 12.) I followed the Help Desk suggestions with no resolution of my problem. I reached (on chat) a very courteous agent at the Blurb help desk on December 26 who said she was unaware of any upload issues with Lightroom. I have no idea whether or not I am the only LR/Blurb customer with this crippling upload issue, but the timing of the December 14 Blurb note may indicate I am not alone.
Techical data: I am running Mojave on my Mac desktop. I began the book in question in LR 8.0, was forced to revert to LR 7.3 when the book module in 8.0 misbehaved, then upgraded to LR 8.1 when it became available. My internet connection is not great but adequate as can be seen from the easy upload to Dropbox.
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EvG I also replied to your similar post in-
Blurb changes finished pages by itself!
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There seems to be an easy and effective work-around to the Blurb uploading issue described in my post above. The Blurb Help Desk referred me to the "Blurb PDF Uploader" here http://www.blurb.com/pdf_uploader_frontend/index.html#/chooseFiles.
After yet another failed attempt to upload a 110-page book to Blurb using Lightroom, I followed Blurb's urgings to use this work-around. Instead of uploading directly to Blurb, I made two pdf's of my book (cover and book proper) with Lightroom 8.1 and uploaded them using Blurb's web-based PDF Uploader. Easy, intuitive and INCREDIBLY FAST- much faster than I have ever experienced with any version of Lightroom. A 110 page book that I have been trying to upload with Lightroom for over two weeks uploaded first try in 15 minutes! The ready-to-publish book appears in my Blurb Dashboard as before, complete with cover- the only difference is that the Dashboard indicates uploaded by pdf whereas in the past it said uploaded by Lightroom. (Nice developing work, Blurb!)
I had never seen the Blurb PDF Uploader before and don't know if it's new or if it has been around a while. I won't see my finished book for a while, but the process was so fast and easy I may well be a convert, using Lightroom just to make pdf's of books.
What is troubling about all this has been the waste of time trying futilely to complete uploads. The upload process from Lightroom is for some clearly broken. Blurb seems to have developed an alternative that can upload a book better than Lightroom ever did. But where are the timely bug notices to users? A Blurb Help Page seems to indicate that something was known to be amiss two days after the arrival of LR 8.1 . Is the upload via Lightroom dead or dying and soon to disappear? Is a long-standing work-flow no longer viable for some or all? Or is the upload issue limited to a few unlucky customers? A little more transparency would be welcome.
I'm waiting to see what my book uploaded via the Blurb PDF Uploader looks like. So far so good.