catalog corrupted, repair fails

[stephenitis]

Hello
My catalog became corrupt and I don't have a backup (I'll surely select to do backups after this incident)

Repair fails during the updating catalog step.

Any Help would be appreciated. If I could send my catalog file to be fixed that would be excellent.

Adobe Lightroom CC 2015.12 Camera Raw 9.12

Windows 10

-Stephen Nguyen

[stephenitis]

help?

[Sahil.Chawla]

Hi Stephen,

I've sent you a private message, could you please check and response.

Regards,
Sahil

[clpvt]

I do keep backups with my LR6 on my Mac but I've had three corrupt catalogs in the past two months.  About 4 months ago I had a new hard drive put into my iMac so I don't think it's hardware related.  Any suggestions?  Also when I back up my catalog, I have 165,000 images, it takes almost 10 minutes to check the integrity and compress the info?  Is this normal? 

[KR Seals]

Probably, especially if you are backing up to an external drive that is likely much slower than the drive you catalog is on.

[clpvt]

Thank you for replying.  So a ten-15 minute backup to an external drive with 165,000 files doesn't seem unusual? 

[KR Seals]

Not at all unusual especially if you are on a hard drive as opposed to an SSD.

[dj_paige]

clpvt  wrote

I do keep backups with my LR6 on my Mac but I've had three corrupt catalogs in the past two months.  About 4 months ago I had a new hard drive put into my iMac so I don't think it's hardware related.  Any suggestions?  Also when I back up my catalog, I have 165,000 images, it takes almost 10 minutes to check the integrity and compress the info?  Is this normal? 

If it keeps happening, this is almost always due to some hard disk malfunction, perhaps a bad sector, perhaps something else.

New hard disks can be faulty.

10 minutes to check the integrity of a 165,000 image catalog seems reasonable to me.

[simones19185168]

Hello, I have a similar problem... I am trying to upgrade to Classic but it cannot upgrade the catalog and when I open with the previous version of LR it CAN open the catalog but cannot repair or optimize or export as catalog. Apparently LR says the catalog is corrupt and cannot be repaired. Is there any way to repair a corrupt catalog even if LR cannot do it?

I am stuck and my catalog has almost 150.000 images... all my backups have the same problem. Could you please help me?

Thanks,

Simone

[Precious_Brilliance98C6]

Hi Sahil,

I can't seem to open my catalog and was prompted the following:

It seems like I cannot repair or back up the catalog, and I have tried resetting the preferences and restarting Lightroom but was unable to fix any of the errors.

Kindly assist and advice on the procedure to fixing this issue. Appreciate if you could revert back to me as soon as possible as I have to rush out the work.

Regards,

Sharon

[ingridr45250932]

I also am having this issue. My computer tries to repair the catalog but gets stuck in the “Updating file format” step and never fully repairs. Please help ASAP