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truls01
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December 19, 2024
Question

Lighroom Classics does not start after photo edit in Photoshop

  • December 19, 2024
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I have used Lightroom Classics for a long time. But now I have started to restore and colorize scanned photos for wich I need Photoshop. So after basic editing in Lightroom I right click on the photo in and choose "edit in Photoshop" (I have it set up so it saves the file as psd) on return. I do all the editing in PS and saves the file. Everything looks fine and Im back in Lihgtroom with my new file. I close Lightroom which also works fine. But the nest time it says that the Lightroom catalouge is corrupt at startup and I have to restore my backup. This has happend three times now. But today Ligtroom is still running (I can see it in activity on my PC) and it has been sitting now for over two hours with the files lrcat.lock, lrcat-shm and lrcat.wal still present. So I have i few questions:

1. What do I do wrong when switching between Lightroom and Photoshop that seems to corrupt the Lightroom catalouge?

2. Is Lightroom tryying to repair the catlouge for so long?

3. Should I just abort Lightroom after waiting two hours and get back to my backup or should I wait to see if Lightroom may fix it (the catalouge has about 9 000 photos and is about 550 Mbyte in size)?

Im running the latest version of Lightroom Classic and Photoshop on a Windows 11 PC

The banner "Lightroom - Opens catalog: catalog name.lrcat" has been on my screen now for more than two hours

1 reply

GoldingD
GoldingD
Legend
December 19, 2024

If LrC is closed, and you still have a lock file, then LrC did not close properly and you would need to carefully delete the lock file before attempting to open the catalog.

 

you may not get the error message stated in the above link.

 

Is something going wrong with the hard drive your catalog is on?

 

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truls01Author
Participant
December 27, 2024

Thanks but the tips you gave did not solve my provlem. I have instead started not to use Lightroom in my photo restoration projects. I work directly on my originals with Photoshop and save as new PSD's and when I'm finshed I can import yhem into Lightroom.

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AlekeCommunity Manager
Community Manager
January 3, 2025

Hey @truls01! There might be a sync error between Lightroom Classic and Photoshop.

When you select "Edit in Photoshop," do you choose "Edit Original," "Edit a Copy," or "Edit a Copy with Lightroom Adjustments"? Have you made any changes to the original files outside of Lightroom in any way?

Thanks!
Alek

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