Lightroom :: 3.6 Encountered An Error When Reading Catalogue File And Needs To Quit
May 16, 2012
Working in LR 3.6, Mac OS10.6.8, 8GB RAM, accessing from an external USB 2TB harddrive, and when opening an image I get the error:
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"Lightroom encountered an error when reading a catalogue file and needs to quit.
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"Lightroom will attempt to diagnose the problem the next time it launches."
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I've run "Optimize Catalogue" and that didn't relieve the problem. Also have deleted preference files and still no joy. I also have upgrade to LR4 in hopes that it will fix the problem and it didn't. So I've removed LR4 for the time being until I can figure this out in LR3.
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