The backup of my catalog aborts with an error! LR says that it could not back up the catalog. Folder permissions and sufficient disk space is available.
Until a few days, everything was still working. Even if I create a new catalog I get in the catalog backup, the error message
The LR 4.4 catalog backup fails when exiting the application. I have set my catalog backup location on a NAS hard-drive (connected via Gigabit ethernet), which has sufficient empty space and correct network permissions. An empty backup folder is created, however no catalog file is copied into it. After the backup starts and checks integrity and starts the backup, a second dialog box pops up that says do you want to back up. The first dialog box is open with the progress bar about halfway complete, but can't be made active. If I start another backup, it runs part way and says can't complete as the same as the others report.
This is strange, since in earlier versions of LR 4 (and even in LR3) I had none of these problems.
I am running Mac OSX 10.8.4 with 2GB of RAM.
Can the backup catalog screen be cancelled and then remain in the program?
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2) As I remember from some years ago, I also need to double-click on that LR4 catalog once it's in the proper place. Is that right?
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- I have to use Task Manage to shut LR4 down
- LR4 will then not restart
- Computer shutdown also stops working.
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