Lightroom won't display previews?

[tjscraps]

Anyone had this happen? It will import the photos but I can't see them ... happens more than 1/2 the time now. I use a Mac, and use the "Open in ..." Lightroom Classic (CC). It's updated to the current version.

Any ideas? It's quite annoying lol

[amyjcaz]

Oh that would be so frustrating! You can't even function without the preview!

Does it happen if you start IN Lightroom and import the files from there?

I have not had that happen to me and I am sure you have researched but here is one person that has a list of things to try... maybe one of them will work for you? What worked for her was deleting everything in her windows TEMP files... maybe since you use a MAC is there something equivalent to that?

Here is her list of suggestions to try but hopefully it doesn't take this many trials.
Wish I could be of more help. I feel your pain.

- restarting LR/computer
- formatting or changing the memory card,
- checking for/removing video files on the memory card,
- changing user permissions of the import catalogue,
- purging LR cache,
- freeing additional space on HDD,
- resetting LR preferences to default,
- creating fresh LR catalogue,
- finally reinstalling the whole LR,
- installing newest version of Camera RAW.