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fastson99
fastson99
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July 16, 2018
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Lightroom Classic CC 7.4 corrupting catalog daily.

  • July 16, 2018
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Hello.

This is driving me nuts.

Almost daily my Lightroom catalog becomes corrupted. I get the notification upon launching Lightroom that the database is no longer working, it tries to repair it but fails.

Luckily I have backups (made by LR itself, or having been backed up by my WD drive) to work with. But sooner or later they also become corrupted which means I have to load another backup.

The original catalog is based on Lightroom 4, but has been updated to work with LR5 then LR 6 and now most recently Lightroom Classic CC 7.4. I have never had problems with the catalog until I went with LR Classic CC (2-3 days ago)!

I have tried making a new catalog in LR Classic and importing data from the old catalogs, and thought this might solve the problem, start with a fresh copy. But today when I launched LR I got the same old tired message.

Please help me with this, I have almost 65k stills that I want to keep.

Meddelandet redigerades av: Fredrik Fast Changed title from database to catalog.

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    Correct answer dj_paige

    Backups must be stored on a different disk, otherwise they are not backups.

    The fact that catalogs keep getting corrupted still indicates to me that something is wrong with the disk, or perhaps the communication of the disk with the computer motherboard.

    You could still try creating a new catalog on a different disk, and then import the existing catalog into it.

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    dj_paige
    dj_paige
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    July 16, 2018

    The hard disk where the catalog is stored is malfunctioning. Run diagnostics on it. Replace it. Try creating a new catalog on a different hard disk, and then import your existing catalog into it.

    fastson99
    fastson99Author
    Participant
    July 16, 2018

    The catalog is stored on an SSD (the newest drive on my computer).

    Samsung Magician reports the SSD Health as "Good".

    Also, the backup which I most recently had to use was also stored on the same SSD.

    dj_paige
    dj_paigeCorrect answer
    Legend
    July 16, 2018

    Backups must be stored on a different disk, otherwise they are not backups.

    The fact that catalogs keep getting corrupted still indicates to me that something is wrong with the disk, or perhaps the communication of the disk with the computer motherboard.

    You could still try creating a new catalog on a different disk, and then import the existing catalog into it.

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