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Question

Lightroom Classic is not launching

Forum|Forum|4 years ago
December 16, 2021
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I already followed this thread and it's still not working for me. The Adobe Lightroom Classic process will show up in the Task Manager but that is it. How do I get Lightroom Classic? Photoshop and other Adobe apps work fine.

Windows

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GoldingD

Legend

Time to contact Adobe

Rob_Cullen

Community Expert

Here is another 'old' thread with suggestions that may be worth trying- including-

A Corrupted Catalog -in the last post,

and a very old method (with amended steps) to give Lr-Classic "High Priority" in Windows OS (that worked in 2018)

https://community.adobe.com/t5/lightroom-classic-discussions/lightroom-doesn-t-work-it-starts-only-as-a-background-process/m-p/9684214#M94139

Regards. My System: Windows-11, Lightroom-Classic 15.3, Photoshop 27.5, ACR 18.3, Lightroom 9.3, Lr-iOS 10.4.0, Bridge 16.0.3 .

2CharlieAuthor

Inspiring

It seems like my .lrcat file or something else related to this file is corroupted. I opened an earlier version (v10) .lrcat file and Lightroom CC launched fine.I don't know what could have caused this problem though. I also setup to backup everytime I closed my Lightroom CC. I wonder if there are ways to recover what I've missed by going back to an earlier version of .lrcat file.

GoldingD

Legend

Was a lock file perhaps not deleated?

2CharlieAuthor

Inspiring

@GoldingD Where do I find the lock file? Thanks!

GoldingD

Legend

https://helpx.adobe.com/lightroom-classic/kb/lightroom-error-catalog-cannot-be-opened-lrcat-lock.html

dj_paige

Legend

Please provide the following basic information

2CharlieAuthor

Inspiring

Lightroom CC 11.1
Windows 10 Pro Version 20H2 OS Build: 19042.1415
There is no error messages.
I reboot the computer and the first thing I do once logged in is I click on the Lightroom CC icon either on the task bar, desktop, start menu, or through the Creative Cloud Desktop
Here's the screen shot of the problem, Lightroom CC process shows up in the Task Manager but that's it. The application is not launched.
Two Intel Xeon CPU X5690 @ 3.47GHz, 6 cores, 12 logical Processores; Nvidia Quadro P2200; and 96GB of RAM memory.

Hope that helps.

2CharlieAuthor

Inspiring

So, I found that version 11.01 and 11.1 has this issue. If I went back to version 11.0, it works fine. So, does anyone have this issue?

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