I just upgraded my processor and OS to Windows 7. I reinstalled Lightroom 3. When I try to open a catalog, I get an error message that it cannot be opened because it is not writable.
View 2 RepliesHere in Denver on the day the earth was ending, we had a large power outage in my neighborhood. I was intently working on some images when it hit and it took my display and a few hard drives down. My battery backup did take over. It was a true test for the old battery backup system. Well...one battery was dead, another worked great, but was connected to an old computer I don't even use anymore. I was able to safely shut down some of my equipment. When the power came back on, I fired everything up again and it all seemed good. Lightroom opened up with no problems and I continued to work. But when I tried to quit and save....it couldn't because the drive with my Lightroom cat backup had died.
Now, I can't open my master catalog. I'm getting an error message that says "Lightroom can not use the catalog because it's not writable and can't be opened". I'm using vers 3.2 on a Mac running OS 10.6.8. I've researched this a little bit and have read about a locked file that needs to be thrown away.....I don't see a locked file. I do see one that says .lrcat-journal.....is this the locked file?What should I try next?
I am trying to rename some old photos in lightroom but I get thismessage: some photos will not be renamed as they are missing or not writable. the photos are not missing and I can work with them in the develop module.
View 14 Replies View RelatedI was importing into LR3 for the first time and while I was filling out info (renaming files), my MAC started to pinwheel. Finally I was forced to "force quit". Now when I try to relaunch LR from my alias or the HD it gives me this message; "LIghtroom cannot use the catalog because it is not writeable and cannot be opened".
View 2 Replies View Relatedi just installed LR version 3.6 trial yesterday and it end up failling to upload the previous LR catalog that i install in past and crash,
attach here is the error picture.
i have try to uninstall + reinstall it but same problem occured. The worst part it i have deleted the lightroom catalog permanently in my pictures folder and the img catalog that attach in the pictures.
i cannot open a catalog it says its already open by an instance of lightroom all other catalogs open but they do not containe all my photos any info would be great i have shut down and restarted the computer but the problem is still there
View 2 Replies View RelatedI can't open a certain LR catalog. It actually opens briefly, but then LR crashes within 5 seconds. No warning or dialog box shows up, the program just disappears.
I can open other catalogs, but these are old and are of no use to me. I have also deleted my preferences, but to no avail.
Is there any way to repair a corrupted catalog if you can't even keep it open?
I was working on an LR5 catalog yesterday (which I unfortantely didn't back up) and today it won't open. I don't even get an error message or a repair option, all LR does, is open a small grey window. LR is leaving the lock file after I close it down, but even after deleting it and restarting the computer LR won't open the catalog (which is on an external harddrive).
View 1 Replies View RelatedBasically I can only open some of my catalogs in Lightroom, Lightroom just hangs with nothing on the screen and I have to force quit it.
Yesterday I installed the lightroom plugin 'Jeffrey Friedl's Eport to Flickr'
I am using Lightroom 4.4
I've used LR since 2.0 and upgraded easily each time. I've purchased and loaded 5.3. Clicking on LR5 icon from desktop brings up message that my catalog named "xxx".
Lightroom will create a new catalog file in the destination indicated below. The previews will also be moved to this location and converted for use in LR 5.
I click "UPGRADE" and after a few hours of watching the little green line progress across the monitor nothing works" I've done this twice and rebooted the PC.
For the past 2 months, I have been working on images in LR 4.2. As of this morning, I am unable to open my LRCAT file. The error screen tells me the requested catalog is being used by another LR program. HUH? I have opened my Task Manager (windows 7) and nothing is running. I don't want to loose all the work on the images I have done up to this point.
View 3 Replies View RelatedI cannot open Lightroom catalog bc there is 'not enough room on the hard drive named.' I keep erasing more and more on this hard drive and still it does not work and keeps saying the same thing.
View 7 Replies View RelatedI have been trying to open lightroom but I keep getting a catalog error. I have uninstalled and installed almost three times and it still hasnt fixed it. I was learning how to use lightroom then I was just seeing what a catalog was I guess I did something wrong and i got the error. it says cant open dadsfamilypictures 101.jpg.ircat it was a whole file of pictures. I dont know how to get it to work.
View 2 Replies View RelatedJust upgraded to 3.6 and using Windows Vista 64bit. When I go to open a recent catalog I keep getting prompted to back-up the catalog eventhough the selected time between back-ups has not elapsed. It just always prompts me to create a backup whenever I exit the catalog or LR. When viewing catalog A and swithing to catalog B and exiting, when I start LR again it opens with catalog A instead of B. I re-checked the settings and LR is set to open to the previous catalog but it is not doing so.
View 3 Replies View RelatedMy daughter turned off my MAC mid-session edit and now I can't load any pictures from any session let alone that session I was working on. I even tried to close out and back up and it won't back up the catalog..way to get my images back.
View 1 Replies View Related"The Lightroom catalog named Tamara & Nate cannot be opened because another application already has it opened."
Is what I get everytime.
I'm getting this over and over again.
Re-started lightroom and my computer it doesn't go away.
I tried to import a photo from a file on my computer. The Lightroom 3.6 program shut down. When I try and open the program, a message appears that says "Lightroom - Opening Catalog: DSC_2155.lrcat
Immediately after that appears on my screen a box appears that says "Adobe Photoshop has stopped working" underneath it reads "A problem caused the program to stop working correctly. Windows will close the program and notify you if a solution is available."
Of course I never get notified and a solution is never available. I've tried deleting Lightroom and reloading the program but the same problem occurs.
I'm running LR 4.1 with ACR 7.1 on a Windows 7 64 bit OS.
I set my preferences to open most recent catalog.
I then open another catalog and do some stuff in the catalog but when I start LR next time it keeps going back to a different catalog. How can I change the settings so it either opens the most recent catalog or I get prompted for which catalog I'd like to open (I've tried both settings) and LR still keeps opening the same catalog.
I am having problems running Lightroom. I re-installed and I get a windows error.
I used the trial for only one day. I received my serial number and re-installed and
I still get a windows error saying the application has stopped working. Lightroom begins by trying to open a Catalog with a .JPG.lrcat extention. I don't have that file and not sure why it continues to try to open that file when I uninstalled Adobe Lightroom and removed it's file directory. I also cleaned out my recycle bin recommended by the readme file.
I have an old computer running LR 3.6. I have downloaded, installed and entered my serial number for LR 4.4 on my new computer. Can I simply copy my 3.6 catalog to the new computer and open it with LR 4.4?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI'm running LR2 (I know, first step, UPGRADE!), but in the meantime, I had to move my catalog because my drive got full. Under the Backup dialog box I chose the new location. But when I just click on the LR icon to open the program it opens with the default C: drive catalog location that it first installed with. Then I open the specific catalog from in the program and relaunch it. I have LR set to bring the dialog box everytime I start LR since I don't use it everyday. So I back it up when the dialog comes up and when it's done it goes right back to the default catalog with none of my library in there. Why do I have to keep opening the catalog manually?
View 7 Replies View RelatedI cannot open LR4. I get an, "Unexpected error opening catalog. The catalog could not be opened due to an unexpected error." This occurred after a WIN7 update failed. It restored the system to an earlier version. In doing so, it also reverted LR4.2 to LR4.1. I have seen other threads to open a different catalog and/or create a new. The problem is that once I go to "Choose a different catalog", I get the Windows screen where I can select my backup. I select the backup catalog and click "Open". The window goes away, but the underlying LR "Select a Catalog" window still only shows 1 catalog to open.....my original catalog. The backup doesn't show up in the list. (The backup is not a network drive and it is not read-protected.)
I then try the "Create a new catalog", get the Windows screen, enter a new name and click "Save". The same thing happens. The Windows screen goes away and the LR "Select a Catalog" window still shows the orignal catalog in the list. Thus, I cannot create nor choose a different catalog.
We are attempting to run Lightroom in our photo journalism classes and we are unable to setup the application because it will not create the Catalog file.
All of the users in Open Directory have their OSX 10.8 home folder stored on our Apple Server. This enabled them to log into any of the computers in the lab and have access to their data/documents.
Lightroom refuses to create the Catalog file because it treats the home folder as a network folder.
My predecessor found some way around this in the past but he didn't document it and I can't find any evidence of it either.
Surely there are other people out there trying to use Adobe Products who also utilize Apple's "Open Directory" (its like apple's version of Active Directory).
I merged a small catalog with my master catalog and I am unable to open the master catalog. The error message reads "The Lightroom catalog named “master_catalog-2” cannot be opened because another application already has it opened.". There are no other applications running the catalog.
View 2 Replies View RelatedWhenever a user logs on and loads premiere for the first time, they all receive this error. "Media Cache Not Found or is not writable." I believe this is caused because it's trying to locate the media cache inside the profile of another user, the user I based the profile template on. The trouble is I don't know specifically where this setting is stored.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI don't want to have the original files on both laptop and desktop.
I want to make a copy of a Lightroom 3 catalog to put on my laptop so while on the move I can be geo-tagging and keywording to 8000 photographs. I don't want to drag an external drive with me. I just want to be able to work on the catalog metadata and have all the updates/changes stored there (on the laptop)(in the catalog) and then transfer the catalog back to the desktop (to the primary archive) and have all the updates/changes pushed back into the DNG's or the XMP sidecar files alongside the CR2's. These changes would be only keywording and possibly writing GPS data into them….NOT image edits (that would probally require access to the original image files)
As a test, I tried "exporting as catalog", TWO images (with the source images "unavailable"). I flash-drived the resulting catalog to my laptop. I opened the catalog in LR3 and made changes to the metadata. I tried both "saving metadata to file" and "updating DNG previews" (which would be useless anyway since I could not write data back to the missing originals) and also tried doing nothing and just closing LR, then pulling the flashdrive and plugging it into the DESKTOP.(knowing the changes are stored within the catalog itself only) I open the 2 picture catalog in LR and see the keyword updates. Hurrah!
I switch over to the master catalog. All I want to do is import the updated metadata (keywording, contrast, etc…) back into the master catalog and push the data into the original DNG or XMP. On import I select "replace: Metadata and develop settings only" (with or without "preserve old settings" checked) and click import. Voila! NOTHING HAPPENS and the updated keywords are NOT picked up.
I know that the metadata updates were carried out because they showed up when I opened it separately in LR! For some reason they don't seem to making through the import process to the master catalog…
I will be managing a small portion of a client's overall image workflow by updating their web prescence on a regular basis with new work and retagging/uploading old work. I believe this requires the catalog and the image library to be housed on an external hard drive that can travel between the two of us. We are both working on PC's with LR 5.3.
The workflow would look something like this:
Client downloads new images onto external hard drive and imports into LR "ClientCatalog" is created Flags Picks and Creates a Collection from those Picks.Hard drive is handed off to me where I open "ClientCatalog".Make suggested edits to images add detailed tags and metadata upload to various social media sites and websites return hard drive to client
Is there potential problem with this workflow? My assumption is that if everything is housed on the external hard drive then there are no worries about the catalog containing all the latest updates. Are there any "safety protocols" you would add in to this workflow (besides mirroring everythign on another hard drive)?
I'm using Lightroom 1. I tried to merge catalogs by importing a catalog into a master catalog, but there were some problems. The one I noticed immediately was that the collections are not correct. It imported the collections, but for example one collection now has only 4 photos when the originbal had 140? How can I fix that? (Although not necessariy a problem, it seems to have the wrong number of photos imported too. It says the previous import was 3175 photos when it was more like 10,000.)
View 2 Replies View RelatedI had to reinstall an OS in my computer due to a virus. As a result LR 3 in no longer installed. I still have the catalog on a backup disk and have just installed and updated to LR 4.4. What is the best way to merge the V3 catalog with V4 and are there any things I should expect or look out for?
View 2 Replies View Relatedi have an 8 giga LR4 catalog (about 300000 images).just installed the new LR5 and tried openning the LR4 cat in LR 5.it said it needs to upgrade, but in the middle of the prosses i had this messege: "lightroom encountered problems when trying to update the format of the catalog file and cannot use this catalog in this version of LR"
i saw that there is an option to export all my LR4 catalog as a new catalog and than import it into LR5.i haven't tried that yet since i'm worry that i might loose some info. will this process (of exporting and importing) keep all my LR settings? like develop user presets, keywords and collections?
I only want ONE cataglog. Today I installed and upgraded Lightroom from v. 3 to v. 4.3 which was OK.I wanted to upgrade my ONE and ONLY existing catalog keeping the same name.LR created a second catalog and added a - 2 to the name and it's a .ircat.
How can I return to having only ONE catalog and library?