My power just went out while I was importing files from my camera, and now it is saying that my catalogue can not be used or backed up until it is repaired, and it can not be repaired at this time, and tells me to choose a different catalogue, but I don't have a different one, what do I do?
View 1 RepliesLightroom Catalog corrupt. Can't be repaired. I was uploading a photo shoot to Lightroom 2.7. A few minutes in, I got the following message: Lightroom encountered an error and needs to quit. There was a problem reading one of the Lightroom catalogs. I quit and started again but received the following:
The last time Lightroom ran, it shut down prematurely due to a problem reading the catalog. Lightroom must now check the catalog before proceeding After checking the integrity of the catalog, I got the following message: The Lightroom catalog "Lightroom Catalog" is corrupt and cannot be used or backed up until it is repaired. I clicked on REPAIR CATALOG. It looked like it was being checked/repaired but then I got the following message: The catalog "Lightroom Catalog" is corrupt and cannot be repaired at this time. I have been able to use a backup version of my catalog which is on my computer hard drive, but the catalog on my portable hard drive is the corrupt one. Why is that one corrupt, not both and how do I fix the corrupt one?
After importing 48 photos into a large collection, 46,000+ photos, and reviewing in the Library module, LR 3.6 crashed and reported a database error. It suggested repairing the database, but could not. The next window suggested an Adobe Technote, but the link was broken. I have a Dell Dimension E510, w/ 4 GB RAM, Pentium D 2.8 GHz, reporting 3.62 RAM and running XP Pro, Version 2002, SP3. All my HDDs have at least 80 GB of free space w/ the one I was working on with 464 GB of free space.
View 3 Replies View RelatedI'm currently dealing with a few issues with my PC, and it may be that I'll need to have it repaired, which might mean that I'll need to re-install applications such as LR once it's been fixed. I therefore want to ensure that all of my files are protected.
I currently have a solid system for backing up my photo files, so there are no problems there, and I also make regular backups of the catalogue to a seperate drive, so again I have no concerns with losing the catalogue itself. I also keep a backup of the preferences file, just in case I need to trash the one in use so I can then easily recover by replacing it with my copy. The one missing link is that I don't really make any backups of the various presets (having said this, Windows does back them up on a monthly basis).
I figure that, if I need to do a clean re-install, I can drop my prefs file into the relevant folder, overwriting the current one, and that I would just need to have a copy of the presets folder and do the same thing with that... Is my thinking correct here?
When I say presets, I don't just means ones in Develop, I mean things like settings for print templates, export presets, etc. I really don't want to risk losing these and having to set them all up again from scratch.
I am installing LR4. I tried to update the catalog.I received the message that LR encountered problems when trying to update the format of the catalog file and cannot use this catalog in this version of Lightroom. When I click on the See Adobe Technote button, I received the message that that file is unavailable from the Adobe Website. I don't want to loose all my catalog information from my previous instralling of LR2.7.
View 1 Replies View RelatedMy catalog backed up to DropBox and all my photos are now shown as offline.
View 11 Replies View RelatedI have been using Photoshop elements for many many years and am now looking to use Lightroom as an Interface.
At the moment, I have a Folder structure on my computer. At the Top I have Photos. Under Photos I have 43 additional Folders such as ( Cindi/Ivan Pictures, Cory & Jess Pictures, Barry & Janie Pictures, etc..) Now for each of these folders, such as Cory & Jess Pictures, I have a set of folders basically broken down by month/year. Now in a Given Month/Year Folder, I have a set of folders with each one containing the pictures of a given event that occurred ( birthday, trip, etc…). Guess my initial question is how do I get these pictures into a Lightroom Catalog and do I continue to use the same Structure.
Another example - Under the Barry/Janie Pictures Folder, one of the many Folders in this Folder is called Trips. Inside the Trips folder, I have folders for every major trip that Janie & I have taken since 2004 (21 different folders) (For example there is an Isreal Folder). The Israel Folder is made up of a set of folders, for each individual event or place that we visited during our Trip - i.e. 59 different folders. How would this Trips Folder be brought into Lightroom?
Got the <Unexpected error opening catalogue> dialog when starting Lightroom 5.2. Will not allow me to save a new catalogue. Deleted old catalogue thinking that might prompt Lightroom to create a new catalogue or allow me to create and save a new one.Create Folder with New Catalogue allows me to enter a new catalogue name but then Select Catalogue dialog box is empty. Program wont open!
View 4 Replies View RelatedI'd like to move my existing LR catalog and keywords from 2.7 to my LR 5 catalog. I am using a windows PC, my mac stopped working last month.
What I want is to end up with 1 catalog with all my photos in LR 5 with all my previous edits from LR 2.7 and the keywords as well. By the way, my LR 5 has photos in it as well.
i recovered several illustratior files form a deleted user in my computer, but a few of them cant be opened because a apparently they are damaged, i can see by the size of the file that they actually have all the information, im using a macbook pro and illustrator cs6 by the way.
View 7 Replies View RelatedIs there a list of folders that don't needs to be backed up. For example it wouldn't seem to make sense to backup any files that could be restored from the program disk.
View 8 Replies View RelatedNow that the transfer is complete and you cannot log into Photoshop.com will any new photos be backed up to Revel automatically? I am still only using Elements 9 from my PC, I do not have a smart phone and I could not find and app for Adobe Revel for my Kindle Fire HD. Will I have to do my only uploading to Revel each time?
I was able to successfully log into Revel to see my photos and albums after much searching through the discussion forums but I think there could have been better information or tutorials for those of us who are novices in the use of todays technologies.
After a recent hard disc failure I have reinstalled LR3 and upgraded to 3.6. The catalogue has been recovered from backup but LR is not seeing it and I have been unable to discover from within LR where it expects the catalogue files to be.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI'm using Elements 11 and just completed a full backup I selected the external hard drive and used the default name "my catalog". When I look on the external drive I can't find the photos or the my catalog file. Is it named differently?
View 4 Replies View RelatedI will giving a presentation on editing options to our photographic society in a couple of weeks. One of members raised this question to me.
He is currently using PSE 10 to manage around 11,000 photos. He is getting into problems with the data base crashing and is looking at moving to Lightroom. He has been told that there is no way to make the transfer and will need to wait for LR 4 for a fix.
I'm trying to import a catalogue into Lightroom 4.4. The catalogue I'm importing has 3397 images but only 1806 of these images have been imported. I tried to reimport, but the import dialogue box won't let me tick any of the boxes. With the preview window open in the import dialogue box it seems that some images are missing, yet they are all there when I go to the folder. The images and catalogue I'm trying to import are on my desktop. I have verified and repaired disk permissions after clearing my caches.
View 11 Replies View RelatedI have LR 5 and I would like to share a catalog with a computer using LR 4. Is this possible?
View 1 Replies View RelatedWhen I download new photos from memory card, the actual photos download to storage drive, but LR 4.4 catalogue shows grey and "?" This is first time it has happened. I've formatted my cards and tried again, but no luck.
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View 2 Replies View RelatedI need to export a catalogue for a college assignment and burn to CD. The export had a slight hiccup with conflicts in metadata for 2 of the dng files, but I just overwrote the data. The main problem is when I burned the files to CD and tried opening the catalogue on the CD I get the following error:
"lightroom cannot open the catalog named "..." located on volume DVD RW Drive (E:) because Lightroom cannot save changes to this location"
What am I doing wrong? I'm using LR3.4, and running Win Vista on my laptop at home. Is it an issue with my pc? Should I use the Mac's in college instead? I need to know soon as the assignment is due 11 May 2012 (this fri).
Installed Mavericks yesterday and can't create a new catalog. The dialog box opens and then closes.
View 4 Replies View RelatedSo that I can work on my laptop sometimes?
View 4 Replies View Related when I open Lightroom (4.1, Win7 64bit), it seems to revert to a previous time, losing recent changes, my last imports and edits, for example.
If I go to 'resynch folder', all my files are there, showing, say, 3,500 when my present catalog shows 3000. When I do resynch, all my labels, keywords etc edits are still present on both the 'missing' files and the ones still present in the catalog which had lost their edits.
I am not able to open new catalog in Lightroom 4.3. It is asking for a file inseatd of folder.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI just returned from a six-week trip with lots of photos. Used my laptop with an external HD on which I had the trip catalog and files. When I connect the HD to the Desktop and open the trip catalog, I get the message that the catalog cannot be used because it is not writable and cannot be opened. Maybe because of incorrect pemissions or that catalog is being used by another application. Checked the permissions, seems OK, not being used by another application.
View 2 Replies View Relatedinadvertently, i established my lr5 catalogue in my c drive. I managed to move my catalogue over to my f drive,but seemed to delete the lr5 catalogue that i have on the c drive. I thought i had deleted it from the c drive but when i open up preference and general under catALOGUE SETTINGS it will come up with the catalogue as still being on the c drive. when i open up the f drive the lr cat will show up with the three files in it so i evidently moved the files successfully. How can i rectify this permanently so the lr5 cat is not in the c drive?
View 3 Replies View RelatedI'm trying to import my PSE catalogu into Lightroom3. However, LR will only offer the (old) PSE9 catalogue. I have several catalogues in PSE10 and need to import at least the largest one.
View 4 Replies View Relatedwhen i try to import phots from another catalog (from my laptop to my desktop) in Lightroom 5 the dialog box closes before i can select the files i want to import. tried exporting the photos from the laptop to the desktop and then importing on the desktop and get the same issue
View 5 Replies View RelatedI am unable to use Lightroom as I have the message "The lightroom catalogue cannot be opened because another application already has it open".I believe I have to look in whatever directory your catalogue is in and deleting the lock file with the same name as your catalogue.I am using Windows 7.
View 5 Replies View RelatedI need to work on some files on my laptop, but don't need my 22,000 photo catalog. Also, how would I update my original catalog?
View 4 Replies View Relatedwhile the catalog was optimized, LR4 seems like frozen.
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