Cannot restore LR Catalog

[JanetinNJ]

I have been using LR Classic for several years.  I back up catalot on a regular basis.  I bought a new laptop this week that runs Windows 11.  

I have never had to restore a catalog before, so this is all new to me.  It seemed relatively simple.

However,  for some reason I keep getting an error message :

"Lightroom cannot use the catalog named "XXXXX" because it is not writable and cannot be opened."

I have searched for answers and can't find an answer that works.  I have unchecked the "read only" box on all the files, but it keeps going back to "read only."  

This sounds like a permission thing, but I don't know where to look to change that.

Can someone help??

[dj_paige · Accepted solution]

Unzip the backup first.

[JanetinNJ]

I thought I did. I didn't. Thank you. Now to finish it up.


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Janet De Cristofaro