Catalogs unavailable via taskbar Windows 10

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November 27, 2020
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This has been an annoying thing for a while now and am no closer to resolving the issue. LR Classic is the only app of all my apps that doesn't allow me (anymore) to access catalogs via my quick-launch icon in the taskbar. All the catalogs (or most of them) icons are white and when I click them, it says the catalog is unavailable.

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Correct answer AxelMatt

I think the link for the .lrcat extension to Lightroom is missing. Please assign the lrcat extension to Lightroom Classic and check.

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GoldingD

Legend

For a test, and to verify or disprove a hunch. Use your OS File Manager, navigate to one of your catalogs. Double click on the catalog. Does LR start?

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AxelMatt

Correct answer

Community Expert

I think the link for the .lrcat extension to Lightroom is missing. Please assign the lrcat extension to Lightroom Classic and check.

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My System: Intel i7-8700K - 64GB RAM - NVidia Geforce RTX 3060 - Windows 11 Pro 25H2 -- LR-Classic 15 - Photoshop 27 - Nik Collection 9 - PureRAW 6 - Topaz Photo AI

Just Shoot Me

Legend

In my opinion you have Way To Many Catalogs.

I have 2 catalogs for V10. My Working catalog and a Test catalog. Then I keep one catalog from Previous versions back to Lr 5.7.1.

Rob_Cullen

Community Expert

Would it be more reliable to open Lightroom-Classic (from the taskbar program icon) while holding down the [CTRL] key.

LrC will then present you with the list of Catalogs that it 'knows about' for your selection.

It takes an extra mouse click, but may overcome problems with the OS history of pinned catalogs.

It might also be about time you renamed some of those -2-2-2-2 catalogs that have seen several updates, so the 'old' versions do not keep re-appearing.

Regards. My System: Windows-11, Lightroom-Classic 15.3, Photoshop 27.5, ACR 18.3, Lightroom 9.3, Lr-iOS 10.4.0, Bridge 16.0.3 .

JBedfordPhotoAuthor

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Just Shoot Me

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