How do you repair a corrupted lightroom catalog?

Question

My main Lightroom catalog is corrupt. I have tried repairing it, but it fails every time. I do not have a recent backup to restore from. Could someone from Adobe take a look at my catalog and attempt to repair?

AxelMatt · Answer

Please try the following steps:Create a new catalogOpen LR with this new catalog and goto menu 'File - Import from Another Catalog' and then import your old catalog. In the dialog that is displayed, choose to add new images without moving them.If the problem is solved after the import is finished, use this new catalog from now on.If your catalog was synced, you will have to enable sync for this one. And if you used any publishing services you will have to recreate these. If this doesn't help please contact the Adobe support. It's possible that they have tools to repair a courrupt catalog.

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