Luminar AI Crashes Constantly
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I just got a brand new laptop yesterday with the purpose of running Luminar AI and after editing 2 photos, I thought everything was fine. However, when i tried to edit the 3rd photo, the program crashes. Now, it refuses to start up and load completely. It shuts itself down everytime I try to open it. Clearly this is a software issue on Skylum's end. What I want to know is if anyone else is experiencing this issue and if anyone has solved it.
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Hello everyone,
I'm terribly sorry to hear about issues you encountered and our team will do our best to help.
Can you please kindly collect crash logs and send them to us?
- Reproduce the issue.
- Press the Windows logo key + R.
- Type eventvwr in the dialog box that opens and hit Enter on your keyboard.
- In the window that opens click the triangle next to Windows Logs on the left. A directory tree should open.
- Click Application in the directory tree.
- In the main part of the window find the two topmost entries marked with Error named Application Error and .NET Runtime.
- Hold CTRL and click your left mouse button on each entry to select them both.
- Right-click on any of the two selected entries and click Save Selected Events.
- Name the file, save it, and attach it to your support request, which should be sent via https://skylum.com/support.
Here is the video tutorial on how to collect logs: https://www.loom.com/share/d7d8325cb83b4539a0a2dae3ebf286f6
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Ray,
Thank you very much for your cooperation. Please, reach our team first and we will help you with relevant instructions. Much appreciated
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At the moment it works
Try this:
- Go to “Apps and Features” by right click on the Start button;
- Find Luminar there and click [Uninstall] (you can also uninstall from the Control Panel);
- Type %appdata% in Search (folder Roaming should open);
- Find the folder “LuminarAI” and delete it (it deletes your license for Luminarᴬᴵ too. Please, note that your Custom and downloaded Looks/templates will be removed, so make sure to save them somewhere);
- Go to Pictures and rename the folder called Luminar AI Catalog (if you have your Catalog anywhere else, find it and rename it).
- Install the app once again and launch it: http://skylum.com/download/luminar-ai-download
- Choose to Create a New Catalog and add a small folder with images or a single image for editing.
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Can someone update what the fix is? I suspect it is the same issue across the board for Windows users and maybe MAC OS. I don't want to have to keep uninstalling and reinstalling everytime there is an update and a new feature is available. No matter how many times I rename and create a new Luminar AI Catalog, at some point, the app crashes after a few edits. Thank you.
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Regarding Jorg’s suggestion, the support staff told me to do the same thing. What’s not clear in the directions is whether it’s ok to reconnect to the renamed catalogs?
I followed the directions to the letter and created a new catalog with all my old pictures. Luminar didn't crash, but of course I lost all of my edits.
I DID rename my old catalog (both the directory AND the name of the catalog itself, although Jorg's instructions don't explicitly say to do that). When I connected to that old (renamed) catalog, I saw that my edits were back, but just as I realized that.... BAM, it crashed again, and will not reopen.
I swear this is both the greatest and worst software I've ever worked with. I want so bad for this to work so I can get rid of all my other editing software.
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Same issue with me too. Just contacted support. Why don't LR or Topaz have these issues? Very frustrating.
I want to love this software but I don't want to go through this effort to make it work for each new update. Why can't Skylum just re-send a new update/fix that does all the work for us? I'm not used to working with companies that put the onus on me to fix the problem.
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Hi Cindy Maynard, Hi David Huchelega,
The team is looking into the issue right now.
Please try following the steps below:
- Make sure Luminar is closed.
- Locate your Luminar AI Catalog folder. The default location is C:\Users\%username%\Pictures\. If you specified a custom location for your catalog, search your custom location.
- Rename the Luminar AI Catalog folder. Choose any name you like.
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Elena, this does not work.
I received a support email suggestion to move an old catalog backup file into my main catalog directory and add .luminarai to the end of it. Basically the same thing as renaming an existing catalog.
If you try to launch AI in the normal way, you don't have the chance to change catalogs before the software crashes.
I figured out that you can launch AI by double clicking on a catalog. I did this with my restored backup catalog.
I successfully edited a few photos. While doing some composition changes to a JPG, CRASH!!!!! Program is gone again.
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Hi guys! In this case please reach our support team and we will investigate each case individually: https://skylum.com/support
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Hi guys,
Please reach out to our support team via skylum.com/support and they will do their absolute best to help you!
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After changing out my Luminar AI catalog 4x since March 16, I was able to do edits using the "safe" templates ie Scenery Collection or Easy Landscapes and not using the Atmosphere tool. Sadly last night while I was doing composition tool on one picture, my software crashed again and I had to create a new catalog. How do I remove the picture from the catalog so I can reuse and keep the edits of the 25 other pictures I edited past 3 weeks?
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We are sorry to hear about the inconvenience you have.
Could you please reach via skylum.com/support so we can look into the issue?
Same issue. I used Atmosphere controls and it crashed. Now it won't start anymore and changing the catalog didn't help either. Now it's just stuck with the Luminar AI loading screen with a 100% CPU drain.
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