The Lightroom catalog cannot be opened because it is too new...

Dear Sir,

I am having the same problem.

"The lightroom catalog cannot be opened because it is too new to be used by this version of Lightroom"

I got a PC last year which is Win11. I have a synology NAS. I did the correct thing by installing it to a SSD. As I am reading my photos of the NAS and have a two-way sync, I tried to read the catalog off my work PC. My work PC is Win10. I tried this a few days ago. Is this message because it is trying to read the catalogue from Win11 to Win10?

This is really hard because I get to work an hour before I need to which means I can spend 5 hours a week on Lightroom.

Can there be any update?

Cheers.

Martin

This is happening because, as it says, the other catalogue is too new for the version of LrC on your computer.

My guess is that LrC is shown as up-to-date because your computer's operating system is now too old to update to the latest version. So we need to know your version of LrC and the OS.

In LrC, please go to Help > System Info, copy the first 10 lines from the dialog box and paste them here.

Try deleting the preferences: https://www.lightroomqueen.com/how-do-i-reset-lightrooms-preferences/

1. Bring up LrC, click on Help, then System Info. What version is reported?

2. Is that version correct? Or is it older than expected?

Wondering if you had upgraded LrC. If you had gone from say v10 to v11, upgraded the catalog(s), but either you have two copy's of LrC installed or you rolled back the version to a pre upgrade.

I am now getting this error on all my lightroom catalogs, I can't open any of them without getting this error.