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December 30, 2023
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Lightroom Classic crashes with new Sonoma Update & Needs to Repair Catalog every time

  • December 30, 2023
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I've recently updated my Macos to Sonoma 14.1.2 and ever since this update, my Lightroom Classic has been acting up. It keep crashing and having to repair the catalog when I reopen it. It might work for an hour or a few minutes after that before it goes to crash again. 

 

I've tried uninstalling LR Classic and Creative Cloud completely and re-installing everything. That seemed to work for about a week. But now I'm back to the crashing and it's seriously messing with my work flow for photography and it's the middle of my busiest time of year. 

 

Can someone please help or give me some advice? Is there something I'm missing? 

 

I have a iMac M1 Desktop with the new Sonoma 14 update. I have the Lightroom Classic Desktop App. It seems when I try to batch edit with my normal preset, it glitches the system and crashes. 

 

Help! 

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    Kassandra331158064pmeAuthor
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    February 9, 2024

    I've run into the same problem again, and this time it's saying the corrupt catalog cannot be repaired. I haven't done a backup in a few months, so this is not ideal. I do have all the photos which is great, but I'd like to have not just lost all the editing work I've just done in the last few months. I have never run into problems with lightroom until I did the last update where things starting going wrong immediately. What is happening??!?!? 

     

    I've checked my external SSD, and after running First Aid, the drive is good, no issues. 

     

    any help would be greatly appreciated 

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    Kassandra331158064pmeAuthor
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    February 9, 2024

    I'm also trying to uninstall and reinstall LR again and see what happens.

    dj_paige
    dj_paige
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    February 9, 2024
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    I've checked my external SSD, and after running First Aid, the drive is good, no issues.


    By @Kassandra331158064pme

     

    Is your catalog file on the external HD or the internal HD?

     

    Honestly, I think uninstalling the software and reinstalling the software is a waste of time. This is a HD malfunction.

     

    Not backing up your catalog via regular and automated backups is also something that you should fix immediately (if not sooner).

    dj_paige
    dj_paige
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    December 30, 2023

    The problem that you need to repair the catalog every time is almost always caused by a malfunction somewhere, most likely your hard disk where the catalog is located has a bad sector or other problem. Run diagnostics. Consider replacing the hard disk. In the short term, if you have another disk (even an external disk), copy the catalog to there and see if the problem goes away.

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    Kassandra331158064pmeAuthor
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    January 1, 2024

    Hey Dj_paige, thanks for this advice. I've tried to run the repair / first aid via Disk Utility on the hard drive and it keeps saying operation failed.. Maybe that is what's happening... so I'm looking at buying the Samsung SSD 4TB to replace it. I needed to upgrade anyways... and this is the most cost effective thing to do before I go full Desktop hardrive for my storage space... I do photography full time, so things are starting to pile up... The struggle is real! haha. Hoping this fixes it! I'll return to let ya know once I've got the new hard drive going. Thanks! 

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