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raphaels28255986
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January 9, 2025
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Restoring Catalog

  • January 9, 2025
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Hi guys,

I received an alert that says: REPAIR CATALOG  The Lightroom Catalog-2-2-v13-3” is corrupt and cannot be used until it is repaired.

The repair process may take several minutes.

 

…… It has been several hours and the wheel is still twirling.

 

I have a Macbook / Sequoia 15.1.1

And I have the backup drive.

 

What’s your best advice?

 

Thanks a lot,

Correct answer dj_paige

Thanks dj.

Do you mean use this catalog for instance?

It's the latest.


Yes you could restore that one, and if that doesn't work, try a few of the older ones.

2 replies

dj_paige
dj_paige
Legend
January 9, 2025

Restore a recent backup of you Lightroom Catalog.

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raphaels28255986Author
Inspiring
January 9, 2025

Thank you, dj.

Just stop the repair, connect my LR drive and my backup drive, and reverse the back up direction?

dj_paige
dj_paige
Legend
January 9, 2025

If the process takes hours, that's just not right, and there's no point to continue.

 

I would unzip the backup catalog file, copy the unzipped file to the same folder that the original catalog was in. If this is a problem caused by a failing hard disk (quite likely) then perhaps you want to unzip the backup again, and copy the unzipped catalog file to some other folder.

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raphaels28255986Author
Inspiring
January 9, 2025

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