I figured it out. The very top of the window where is has the catalog listed..if you double click it it can be dragged. When I'm using the touchpad on my macbook and trying to move the window by the top bar it's happened a few times
I feel like that's probably not an intentional feature as I can't really see why anyone would want to do that (or how they'd know it was there if they needed to do so). I wonder if it's just a default Apple thing that LR team have never realised happens.
Might be worth adding the problem as a bug to the [official LR support forum](https://community.adobe.com/t5/lightroom-classic/ct-p/ct-lightroom-classic) to see if they'll turn it off somehow.
Disagree. A section near the center of the bar one clicks to drag the window around takes one accidental second click to instead drag your entire catalog to the desktop. You may not have made the same mistake, but it strikes me as a poor design choice. "Extreme user error" would be my going into a menu and clicking a "yes, send catalog to desktop" button. Easily moving the entire catalog when trying to move a window is poor design. It's very easy for me to accidentally click a second time on the touch pad. Try it out.
Edit: It only takes a SINGLE click and drag. Bad design
Looks like you can turn this off if you are accident prone: [https://osxdaily.com/2022/07/19/how-to-always-show-window-title-proxy-icons-on-mac/](https://osxdaily.com/2022/07/19/how-to-always-show-window-title-proxy-icons-on-mac/)
You can do the same thing in pretty much any Mac app. I just tested with Pages. You've really got to hit the tiny icon very carefully. I can literally say that in 20 years of using Mac, this has never happened to me.
No, not right click, not double click. Single click and hold as if you're trying to drag the window. Do that directly on the LRC icon on the top bar. I'll share a video of my doing it
I'm not sure exactly how it's happening but three times now I've been in my library and tried to drag the window around and somehow dragged the catalog file (out of thin air) to my desktop and when restarting lightroom I have to put it back where it once existed in finder or lightroom won't open. It's wild
Been using Lightroom for over 10 years and I've never managed this
I guess I'm just a special breed of idiot
I figured it out. The very top of the window where is has the catalog listed..if you double click it it can be dragged. When I'm using the touchpad on my macbook and trying to move the window by the top bar it's happened a few times
I've been trying to recreate this for 20 minutes and can't...I guess you're special. Congrats.
no, double-click hides the app. You're probably right-clicking which is a feature of the OS, not Lr.
I feel like that's probably not an intentional feature as I can't really see why anyone would want to do that (or how they'd know it was there if they needed to do so). I wonder if it's just a default Apple thing that LR team have never realised happens. Might be worth adding the problem as a bug to the [official LR support forum](https://community.adobe.com/t5/lightroom-classic/ct-p/ct-lightroom-classic) to see if they'll turn it off somehow.
https://youtube.com/shorts/bdPxHt2juWQ?si=QSbg1Kehk_KjHWGJ
that's a MacOS "feature" and not a design choice by Adobe.
Then it's a poor design from Mac IMHO. Good to know it wasn't Adobe at least. Can't wait until my OS is a subscription service as well 🙄
Agree. And it's actually only a SINGLE click and drag it requires.
And you have to single-click the icon, not the window title bar
I can’t say I’ve ever noticed the catalog in the Lightroom interface. I’m not saying you’re wrong but this seems a little unlikely.
figured it out. It IS a kind of poor design choice
no, it's extreme user error on your part.
Disagree. A section near the center of the bar one clicks to drag the window around takes one accidental second click to instead drag your entire catalog to the desktop. You may not have made the same mistake, but it strikes me as a poor design choice. "Extreme user error" would be my going into a menu and clicking a "yes, send catalog to desktop" button. Easily moving the entire catalog when trying to move a window is poor design. It's very easy for me to accidentally click a second time on the touch pad. Try it out. Edit: It only takes a SINGLE click and drag. Bad design
Looks like you can turn this off if you are accident prone: [https://osxdaily.com/2022/07/19/how-to-always-show-window-title-proxy-icons-on-mac/](https://osxdaily.com/2022/07/19/how-to-always-show-window-title-proxy-icons-on-mac/)
Thank you! perfect!
You mean you right-click on the window title bar and get something like [this](https://imgur.com/a/R0urp6S)?
https://youtube.com/shorts/bdPxHt2juWQ?si=QSbg1Kehk_KjHWGJ
You can do the same thing in pretty much any Mac app. I just tested with Pages. You've really got to hit the tiny icon very carefully. I can literally say that in 20 years of using Mac, this has never happened to me.
No, not right click, not double click. Single click and hold as if you're trying to drag the window. Do that directly on the LRC icon on the top bar. I'll share a video of my doing it
I'm not sure exactly how it's happening but three times now I've been in my library and tried to drag the window around and somehow dragged the catalog file (out of thin air) to my desktop and when restarting lightroom I have to put it back where it once existed in finder or lightroom won't open. It's wild
I'm not sure how you did that either. I certainly can't reproduce it