- Joined
- Apr 15, 2020
- Messages
- 36
- Lightroom Experience
- Intermediate
- Lightroom Version
- Classic
- Lightroom Version Number
- 10.3
- Operating System
- macOS 11 Big Sur
Hi, apologies if this question has been asked and answered 1000's of times, but it's doing my head in and I can't find a simple, logical explanation anywhere in any of the resources that I can look up - not even here. Now, if I recall, it never used to do this until quite recently, and I can't work out what's changed.
I'm editing pictures in Develop module or simply just rating them with a star or a colour label (without edits)
That pesky Down Arrow appears in the top right corner of the image file window and when I click on it, this dialogue box pops up:
I click 'Yes' and another dialogue box pops up:
Do I 'Cancel' or 'Overwrite settings?'
I'm getting confused here because I'm not understanding which "external application has changed one or more of my photos?"
I'm ONLY editing in Lightroom!
And if I tell Lightroom to "overwrite the settings on disk" what does that actually mean? Which settings will it overwrite? Is it good or bad to do that?
All I want is for Lightroom to save and preserve my edits as I do them!
If you look at the last screenshot with the red dragonfly, I haven't applied any edits, only rated with a star.
Thank you, in advance.
I'm editing pictures in Develop module or simply just rating them with a star or a colour label (without edits)
That pesky Down Arrow appears in the top right corner of the image file window and when I click on it, this dialogue box pops up:
I click 'Yes' and another dialogue box pops up:
Do I 'Cancel' or 'Overwrite settings?'
I'm getting confused here because I'm not understanding which "external application has changed one or more of my photos?"
I'm ONLY editing in Lightroom!
And if I tell Lightroom to "overwrite the settings on disk" what does that actually mean? Which settings will it overwrite? Is it good or bad to do that?
All I want is for Lightroom to save and preserve my edits as I do them!
If you look at the last screenshot with the red dragonfly, I haven't applied any edits, only rated with a star.
Thank you, in advance.