Lightroom 3 - where are my thumbnails?

If you sit down in front of Lightroom and find that you only have grey squares instead of thumbnails...it is probably something to do with your monitor calibration profile.

It happened to me yesterday and after scratching my head for a while, I opened an image in Photoshop CS5...which complained that my monitor profile was defective. 

Bingo, problem solved!

I remembered that I had updated my graphics card drivers earlier in the day, so this must have caused the mismatch.

A recalibration and all is right with Lightroom and Photoshop again.

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Comments

[Dan G]

Thanks for sharing this! I confirmed that the problem here was not inherent in the files after looking at the thumbnail previews on another computer. Now to find that updated driver...