Error initializing Lightroom

Question

After I moved to a new macbook with Time machine, lighroom would not start ant the following message appears. Creative cloud seems to be working fine and I already reinstalled lightroom. Thx in advance for your help!

Jao vdL · Answer

If you also restored Lightroom itself using the Time Machine backup and you moved to a M1 machine then that is probably the issue. Doing this leaves a lot of crud around that prevents Lightroom from running even when you delete the local .lrlibrary copy. You should uninstall everything creative cloud related. This is easy to do with the creative cloud cleaner app that you can download from Adobe and then reinstall creative cloud, log in to your creative cloud account and then install Lightroom from there.

Sign up

To post, reply, or follow discussions, please sign in with your Adobe ID.

Sign in to Adobe Community

To post, reply, or follow discussions, please sign in with your Adobe ID.