Can't save my Lightroom catalog

Forum|Forum|2 years ago
July 24, 2023
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I am not able to save my Catalog or to save it somewhere else. Iam very afraid to crash my whole catalog and to lost data.

Can someone help?

Thank you!

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dj_paige

Legend

There is no "Save" function for catalogs in Lightroom Classic. Your entire catalog is saved automatically. What Lightroom Classic function are you trying to do that you are not able to do?

J

JunalaAuthor

Participating Frequently

The automatically saving is not working and i get the error message like shown in the picture i uploaded. 😕😕

J

JoLighter

Participant

If it does work with your latest backup, then this indicates it may be some kind of catalog corruption.

As your backup is probably too old to simply replace your current catalog with it, you could try the following:

1: Create a brand new catalog

2: Verify that Lightroom has no problem backing up this new catalog

3: Choose 'File - Import from Another Catalog' and select your current catalog to import. Select 'Add new photos to catalog without moving' in File Handling.

4: After the import is done, check that Lightroom can still backup this new catalog.

5: If all still works as it should be, then start using this as your new catalog. Lightroom will start rebuilding the previews it needs, but I think you will have to rebuild any smart previews yourself.

Yeah! It works. Thanks so much Johan! I'm so grateful.

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