Problems with LrC not recognizing current catalogue.

Question

For the second time in a month, LrC when opening says it can’t find the catalogue. Today that happened and I had just used the catalogue yesterday. Today I am trying to use the most recent back up. Last month when it happened, I had to reconnect all my images. This was time consuming.

Am I doing something wrong or different. Have not had these problems in the six or so years using the app.

JohanElzenga · Answer

If you had to reconnect the images, then something more and different happened. If Lightroom just can’t locate the current catalog for some reason, then there is no reason why you would have to reconnect the images once you found it and Lightroom opened it.

Where is your catalog located? On the internal drive or on an external drive? And what is your OS? WIndows? Mac? This kind of information is vital in understanding what could have gone wrong. For example: on Windows, if the catalog is on an external drive, you could get this problem if Windows changed the drive letter. And if the images are also on that drive, or another external drive, then drive letter change can explain why you had to reconnect them.

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