lrcat-lrdata corrupted, cannot save ai edits

My lrcat-lrdata folder is corrupted, online i read to delete it and lightroom would reacreate it but it did not fix the issue. Now if I open the pictures in the develop module i see an uknown error shown but my edits are loaded as the values are shown on the slider but they are greyed out. I contacted support but they told me to remove and reimport the pictures but it’s quite useless as I would lose all my work and all the settings since they are not saved as xmp. I cannot export the xmps now and it says I/O error if i try to do so.