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Participant
July 28, 2022
Question

Lightroom Classic Won't Open

  • July 28, 2022
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Help Please.  I can't get Lightroom Classic to open.  It worked fine for me last week.  Suddenly stopped launching.  I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling.  I have logged in and out of Creative Cloud.  I have rebooted the computer.  I have updated all my computer drivers, then gone through the cycle again.  It doesn't matter if I try to launch it from my desktop shortcut, the start menu, or within Creative Cloud. I get the little blue circle that spins for a few seconds...then nothing.  I have tried to go back and open from a backup catalogue.  Same thing happens.  I've searched through the postings and tried a couple other random fixes I found in here.  Nothing is working for me.  Getting desperate for a resolution.  

I am operating on Windows 11 Pro, and have the most updated Lightroom version through subscription service.  

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Participant
July 28, 2022

Thank you for your response.  I did come across this advice in my searches through the forum previously.  I don't recall if I did this already, or if I never had it in the first place.  But I don't have a .lrcat.lock file that I can locate.  

Community Expert
July 28, 2022

It seems that your preferences file is corrupt. This wasn't deleted by uninstalling Lightroom.

Please try resetting the preferences of Lightroom Classic:   https://helpx.adobe.com/lightroom-classic/help/setting-preferences-lightroom.html

 

My System: Intel i7-8700K - 64GB RAM - NVidia Geforce RTX 3060 - Windows 11 Pro 25H2 -- LR-Classic 15 - Photoshop 27 - Nik Collection 9 - PureRAW 6 - Topaz Photo AI
Participant
July 28, 2022

Thank you for your respose Axel.  This didn't work either.  I actually came across this in my other searches through the forum.  Just to be sure, I have tried it one more time.  And it again did nothing.