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saxriff1

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Lightroom Classic version: 8.4
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I'm unable to move from compare view in Lightroom Classic to the grid view. I followed the suggested troubleshooting suggestion listed on this website but to no avail. When I exit Lightroom and turn it back on it remains in the compare view and will not allow me to shift to grid view. Would appreciate anyone's experience to resolve this issue.
 
Hi Saxriff1, welcome to the forum!

What happens if you try to go to, for example, the Develop module? And how long have you been using 8.4 on El Capitan? It's not officially supported on that OS, so I'm wondering if that's part of the problem.
 
Hi Saxriff1, welcome to the forum!

What happens if you try to go to, for example, the Develop module? And how long have you been using 8.4 on El Capitan? It's not officially supported on that OS, so I'm wondering if that's part of the problem.
When I go to the Develop module, one of the images in the compare mode shows up. I've been using 4.4 El Capitan since it updated the software and it hadn't been a problem.
 
It's possible that they've tightened up the restrictions recently. However, since the rest seems to be working, let's keep at it.

From Develop, does it let you hit the G key to go back to Grid? Or what happens when you click G?
 
It's possible that they've tightened up the restrictions recently. However, since the rest seems to be working, let's keep at it.

From Develop, does it let you hit the G key to go back to Grid? Or what happens when you click G?
I tried that, however, it didn't allow me to go back to Grid. Actually, when I press the G key or when I move the curser to Grid and press nothing happens.
 
When did it start? Like, what were you doing before it started? Did you perhaps run a Lightroom update or something like that?

And can you go to Help menu > System Info and paste the top section of text please? That might offer some clues.

Is there a particular reason you're still on El Capitan? Now's the ideal time to upgrade to Mojave, with Catalina due out shortly. We're shooting in the dark since El Capitan is unsupported and was supposed to be blocked installing.
 
Ah good, that helps. Ok, what troubleshooting steps have you tried so far? Did you try resetting preferences? And what happened just before this broke?
 
Lightroom Classic version: 8.4 [ 201908011719-03751b60 ]
License: Creative Cloud
Language setting: en-US
Operating system: Mac OS 10
Version: 10.14.6 [18G87]
Application architecture: x64
Logical processor count: 8
Processor speed: 2.3 GHz
Built-in memory: 8,192.0 MB
Real memory available to Lightroom: 8,192.0 MB
Real memory used by Lightroom: 1,315.7 MB (16.0%)
Virtual memory used by Lightroom: 4,306.4 MB
Memory cache size: 80.1MB
Internal Camera Raw version: 11.4 [ 273 ]
Maximum thread count used by Camera Raw: 5
Camera Raw SIMD optimization: SSE2,AVX
Camera Raw virtual memory: 603MB / 4095MB (14%)
Camera Raw real memory: 604MB / 8192MB (7%)
Displays: 1) 2880x1800

Graphics Processor Info:
Metal: NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M
 
To reset preferences, hold down Alt/Opt-Shift as you start Lightroom, and you'll get a dialog box to reset. So if I do this is there some suggestions which preference to choose in each category
 
In the dialog that comes up when you follow those instructions, there's nothing to set. Just say yes. That'll wipe out the preferences file, which can sometimes become corrupted, and set the preferences back to their defaults.
 
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