This is a new issue I found while helping mum with her photo’s. Basically Lightroom 6.14 started crashing when using any part of the face recognition module. So far this is the work around……
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REM LIGHTROOM LAUNCHER TO ENABLE FACIAL RECOGNITION
REM VERSION 1
REM 2020-12-28
REM UNFORTUNATELY ADMINISTRATOR ACCESS IS REQUIRED TO CHANGE THE SYSTEM TIME
ECHO OFF
ECHO THIS BATCH FILE MUST BE RUN AS ADMINISTRATOR TO WORK
ECHO RIGHT CLICK FILE AND RUN AS ADMINISTRATOR
ECHO THIS FILE SHOULD LAUNCH LIGHTROOM WITH FACIAL RECOGNITION CAPABILITIES REENABLED
ECHO YOU MUST OPEN THE FACIAL RECOGNITION TOOLBOX BEFORE THE CLOCK IS CHANGED BACK
ECHO OR LIGHTROOM WILL CRASH
ECHO ONCE THE FACIAL RECOGNITION TOOLBOX IS OPENED IT CAN BE CLOSED AND REOPENED AT WILL
ECHO IN THE CURRENT LIGHTROOM SESSION
REM THESE ARE THE COMMANDS TO CHANGE THE DATA
REM FEEL FREE TO CHANGE THESE, I JUST WANTED TO MAKE IT OBVIOUS
REM THAT THE DATE HAD CHANGED
ECHO CHANGING TIME TO 11:11:11 ON 11/01/2020 FOR COMPATABILITY
time 11:11:11
date 11/11/2011
ECHO DATE CHANGED
REM CHANGE THIS FILE PATH AS NEEDED, THE FORMATTING NEEDS TO REMAIN THE SAME
ECHO STARTING LIGHTROOM
start "" "C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Lightroom\lightroom.exe"
REM CHANGE THIS TIME TO ALLOW LIGHTROOM PLENTY OF TIME TO LOAD FOR YOU
REM AS WELL AS TIME TO OPEN THE FACIAL RECOGNITION TOOLBOX
ECHO PAUSING TO ALLOW LIGHTROOM TO PERFORM CHECKS
TIMEOUT 60
REM THIS IS THE COMMAND TO RESYNC THE CLOCK WITH INTERNET TIME
ECHO RESETTING CLOCK TO PROPER TIME
w32tm /resync