good questions. something to try..
- Create a new folder and name it TestCat - Copy just the .LRCAT file from your regular LR catalog folder into it, and rename the file TestCat.LRCAT - Drag the .LRCAT file onto the LR Classic application icon Lightroom Classic should open the catalog and regenerate all of the previews and other components in it. The logic behind this test is that if the reason LR Classic cannot open your catalog is that the previews are screwed up in the file system, this gives LR Classic an opportunity to completely re-generate all of the previews and thereby eliminate any possible file system problems that might be there in the previews and other ancillary files. If it works, you can either just adopt this new catalog as your working catalog, or go back to your original catalog folder, delete everything in there except the .LRCAT file, and do the same thing again so that you dont have to properly rename all the various files manually (assuming you want to keep the original name of the catalog folder/catalog). If that does not work, either the LRCAT file is damaged or LR Classic.app is damaged. The next thing to do would be to delete the application and all of its sub folders, and reinstall it from scratch. Do the test again. If that doesn't work, the .LRCAT file is damaged: go to a back up. There is of course possible that the original file repository file system is damaged. If this is so, then the above test will not be able to find the files in order to recreate the previews and other data. That's a bad situation as it means you have to start afresh with a new catalog once you've vetted tat the original files have been properly copied to a newly formatted volume where the file system is fresh and without damage. It means you lose all the edits you've made, unless you have "Saved metadata to files" along the way. Hopefully, things are not that bad off. G > On Dec 21, 2023, at 1:37 PM, Larry Colen <l...@red4est.com> wrote: > > Did you regress to an older version of lightroom classic? > > Older lightrooms won't open catalogs from later versions. > > Can lightroom open an empty catalog? > > Can lightroom open a backup catalog? > > > >> On Dec 20, 2023, at 9:59 AM, Rick Womer <rickpic...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Well, I have the Mac OS working again, and Lightroom Classic opens… but I >> can’t get it to open my catalog. >> >> I have spent =many= hours struggling with this, and I need professional help >> (much more of this stuff and I’ll need psychiatric help as well as cyber >> help). >> >> How does one search for a cyber-professional familiar with Macs and Adobe >> apps? A Google search yields dozens of consultants for Apple and Adobe >> products in greater Philly, but they’re all oriented toward business systems >> and big projects. >> >> Any suggestions? >> >> Rick >> (=very= eager to get back to taking pictures) -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
