Corrupted catalog unable to repair/Mac unable to repair disc

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October 30, 2024
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Someone please help! I'm desperate here. I have a Mac book pro and using the new version of LRC up to date.. I got an error message stating that my Mac was unable to repair the disc ( my external hard drive that has my catalog and photos on)The error also says I can copy and open files on the disc but unable to save changes to the disc. I did make a backup of the catalog and copied it to a diff external drive before this happened. The backup is a zip because it's so large. I am so behind already in my editing and I need this to get up and working! I tried opening Lightroom and it said it was corrupted and unable to repair. I then made a new catalog and am currently trying to import the backed up catalog. Is this the right thing to to do? Or do I have to start all over and re import my albums and presets etc, have I lost all my edits? I want to crawl in a hole lol Any help is much much appreciated!!

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Amber_Rami1319Author

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Update : I got it to load after unzipping the file, however when I use photoshop beta to edit and hit save it won't go back to Lightroom and give me an error " could not save because write access was not granted"

I have looked at privacy settings and LRC and Photoshop have full access, what is going on?

KR Seals

Community Expert

You need to give access to the drive/folder where PS is trying to write the files. The procedures depends on your OS. Here is a link to Google stories how to fix that.

Ken Seals - Nikon Z 9, Z 8, 14mm-800mm. Computer Win 11 Pro, I7-14700K, 64GB, RTX3070TI. Travel machine: 2021 MacBook Pro M1 MAX 64GB. All Adobe apps.

KR Seals

Community Expert

Also, are your photo files backed up to yet another external drive (or two)? If not you should order another drive (or two) overnight from Amazon and attempt to copy ALL the image files to the new drive(s). You are just asking for disaster if you ignore the disk warning.

Ken Seals - Nikon Z 9, Z 8, 14mm-800mm. Computer Win 11 Pro, I7-14700K, 64GB, RTX3070TI. Travel machine: 2021 MacBook Pro M1 MAX 64GB. All Adobe apps.

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Amber_Rami1319Author

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I did order one on Amazon today!

dj_paige

Legend

Unzip the catalog file, then in your operating system double-click on the unzipped file. Probably the previews will have to be regenerated, but you can still use LrC

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Amber_Rami1319Author

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Thanks for the reply, I am currently importing the unzipped backup file catalog into the new catalog hopong it all works! Are you saying I dont need to do this? If i just double click the unzipped file it will open in LR? Sorry i am not tech savy and dont really know what im doing - eeks

KR Seals

Community Expert

Yes, double clicking on the unzipped backup will open it and lightroom classic.

It's highly preferable to store and run the catalog from the internal drive on your MBP.

One thing you will notice if you run the backup catalog from whatever folder it is in, there will be no previews. Lightroom Classic will run very slowly as it has to make new previews on the fly. You can tell Lightroom Classic to make new previews by selecting multiple recent image folders, then in the Menu, Library > Previews > Make Standard Previews. Choose the option to make previews of all the images.

Ken Seals - Nikon Z 9, Z 8, 14mm-800mm. Computer Win 11 Pro, I7-14700K, 64GB, RTX3070TI. Travel machine: 2021 MacBook Pro M1 MAX 64GB. All Adobe apps.

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