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The Missing Link

The Missing Link

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Lightroom Experience
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Lightroom Version
Classic
Lightroom Version Number
12.1
Operating System
  1. Windows 10
I've been getting the "Watermark failed" error when exporting some (!) pictures. The behavior seems random as only a few pictures have the error where many other export normally.
I've seen that resetting all settings sometimes helps, but I've painstakingly found my settings and don't like to see them all disappear.
Is my behavior different from what others report (because it's only happening on a few photo's)? And are there ways to fix this without losing settings (or is there a way to re-import settings)?
 
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Paul_DS256
Found this. May help. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84DcwYtaeOU

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Edit by JRE: For those who hate chatty "solution" videos, I watched it just now so you don't have to:

- In the watermark editor, make a new text watermark with empty text and save it under a dummy name, e.g. "My Test".

- Restart LR.

- Exports with and without your existing watermarks should now succeed.
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Check if your watermark is based on a jpg / png file, which may have been moved / deleted. You may have different export presets which may be using different embedded watermark image files.
 
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Check if your watermark is based on a jpg / png file, which may have been moved / deleted. You may have different export presets which may be using different embedded watermark image files.

Alternatively, create a new watermark and see if that works. I would prefer to do that rather than reset settings.
 
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As I said... for most pictures it works fine, only for some it does not. So it's not the jpg/png or the preset. And BTW, my watermark is text only. I also deleted and re-created it and if continued to fail on the same pictures... I know, it's weird
 
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Found this. May help. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84DcwYtaeOU

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Edit by JRE: For those who hate chatty "solution" videos, I watched it just now so you don't have to:

- In the watermark editor, make a new text watermark with empty text and save it under a dummy name, e.g. "My Test".

- Restart LR.

- Exports with and without your existing watermarks should now succeed.
 
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YES. Thank you so much. I did search with Google but didn't find this one. I have 12.1 Classic but it seems the bug wasn't fixed but at least this trick helped. :)
 
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For those who hate chatty "solution" videos, I watched it just now so you don't have to:

- In the watermark editor, make a new text watermark with empty text and save it under a dummy name, e.g. "My Test".

- Restart LR.

- Exports with and without your existing watermarks should now succeed.
 
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