I had transfered a couple of images to Lightroom (DNG Optical + all corrections). The next image generated the fault “Connection failed on Execute Stage”
Restarted PL7.2 - same result.
Save to disc - same result
Export to Affinity Photo - “Connection failed on Execute Stage”
Export to Lightroom as 16bit tiff - “Connection failed on Execute Stage”
Export as DNG (optical + denoise only) -“Connection failed on Execute Stage”
Deleted .dop file
Export to Lightroom as DNG + all correction - “Connection failed on Execute Stage”
Restarted - same result
Cleared Cache - same result
In short, PL7 now fails to export anything to anywhere.
Why stop after I had successfully exported a couple of files fo Lightroom?
Tested another image - fine.
Went back to the orginal image - reset. Did a couple of corrections including using a brush mask. - Failed again.
Reset and only used the general sliders and De-noise - exports fine.
So it looks like the issue is related to the brush mask.
Today, with 7.2, I had a “correction failed” error if I tried to zoom in on an automask region with an almost unresponsive UI (e.g. I could no longer zoom in or out). Deleting the automask layer restored UI functionality.
I tried undoing my delete which restored the automask. However, the export failed with the same error.
Reading this, i just tried quickly with applied Auto mask and Brush ( PL7.2.0 Build 120 ), but no problem to export
to Disk
to Application
Addendum
To see if file size and accessibility might play a role, i now selected a larger raw file which i copied to a partitioned internal hard drive… but no difference (maybe longer export times).
Note: I’m running PL’s database and (big enough!) cache from NVme m.2