Catalog Corruption

[steveflowers]

I just bought a new computer.  For various reasons I decided to start over with LR.  I created a new catalog and imported all my photos 20+k.  Shortly after the import a message popped up saying my catalog was corrupt and would be repaired when I restarted LR.  I restarted and it went through the fix process but it's still not right.  All my folders are there, but more than half show a photo count, but no photos!  Can anyone suggest what I'm doing wrong?

Thanks.

[GoldingD]

Please post your System Information as Lightroom Classic (LrC) reports it. In LrC click on Help, then System Info, then Copy. Paste that information into a reply. Please present all information from first line down to and including Plug-in Info. Info after Plug-in info can be cut out as that is just so much dead space to us non-Techs and it takes up vast amounts of scroll space making the reply less readable and less likely that others will bother with your post.

[GoldingD]

Also a few additional questions.

• The hard drive you place the catalog in, how much free space in percent is remaining? And yes I do mean %. Looking for at least 20%, some say 25% free.
• What hard drive are you placing your photos on?
• Do you sync (automatically) your catalog to the cloud? Perhaps OneDrive.
•  

[steveflowers]

Here's my system info.  I keep my photos on an 8tb external drive with 5.6tb free.  I backup to IDrive but I don't sync to OneDrive.

Lightroom Classic version: 13.1 [ 202312111226-41a494e8 ]

License: Creative Cloud

Language setting: en

Operating system: Windows 11 - Home Premium Edition

Version: 11.0.22621

Application architecture: x64

System architecture: x64

Logical processor count: 24

Processor speed: 3.4GHz

SqLite Version: 3.36.0

CPU Utilisation: 0.0%

Built-in memory: 32602.1 MB

Dedicated GPU memory used by Lightroom: 124.1MB / 12026.0MB (1%)

Real memory available to Lightroom: 32602.1 MB

Real memory used by Lightroom: 6227.0 MB (19.0%)

Virtual memory used by Lightroom: 7216.7 MB

GDI objects count: 811

USER objects count: 2948

Process handles count: 6958

Memory cache size: 69.0MB

Internal Camera Raw version: 16.1 [ 1728 ]

Maximum thread count used by Camera Raw: 5

Camera Raw SIMD optimization: SSE2,AVX,AVX2

Camera Raw virtual memory: 933MB / 16301MB (5%)

Camera Raw real memory: 936MB / 32602MB (2%)

System DPI setting: 96 DPI

Desktop composition enabled: Yes

Standard Preview Size: 1920 pixels

Displays: 1) 1920x1080

Input types: Multitouch: No, Integrated touch: No, Integrated pen: No, External touch: No, External pen: No, Keyboard: No

Graphics Processor Info: 

DirectX: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 (31.0.15.3742)

Init State: GPU for Export supported by default

User Preference: Auto

Application folder: C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Lightroom Classic

Library Path: D:\Lightroom Catalog\Lightroom Catalog 2024\Lightroom Catalog 2024.lrcat

Settings Folder: C:\Users\Steve\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Lightroom

Installed Plugins: 

1) AdobeStock

2) Flickr

3) Luminar Neo

4) Nikon Tether Plugin

[GoldingD]

Graphics Processor Info: 
DirectX: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 (31.0.15.3742)
Init State: GPU for Export supported by default
User Preference: Auto

Not the cause of your problem, but your GPU driver is old. Current available is v 546.33 (Studio)

Library Path: D:\Lightroom Catalog\Lightroom Catalog 2024\Lightroom Catalog 2024.lrcat

• Is that an internal or external drive?
• Is that a SSD drive?
• How much free space in %
• If external, is the drive letter permanently assigned.
• If external is it prevented from going to sleep, [pprevented from saving power? (lrC does not like that)

[steveflowers]

The catalog and photos are on an external drive (also new). The drive has approx. 85% free.  Thanks for the info on the video driver.  I'm going to update it now.

[GoldingD]

Under the concept of a picture is worth a thousand words, Please post a full screen capture of you Library module, in grid mode, with the navigator panel visible, as much as possible of the folders panel visible (it may be helpful to see the folder expanded as to include any  parent folder) , the filter bar (top) and the task bar (bottom) and the filmstrip, and over on the right, at least the histogram.

Might want to have a misbehaving photo selected.

example:

Ok, 84+ words

[steveflowers]

Here's a screen shot.  I hope it's readable.  You can see the folder 2011 shows 0 photos.  When I imported everthing there were photos there.  Then I got the error message and when I restarted they were gone.

[steveflowers]

Here's the error message I keep getting.  I just got it again.

[GoldingD]

I am pilfering this from JohanElzenga in the post: https://community.adobe.com/t5/lightroom-classic-discussions/lightroom-classic-v13-not-loading-previ...

Perhaps the catalog is still corrupted. What you could do is the following:

1. Create a brand new catalog
2. Choose 'File - Import from Another Catalog' and import your old catalog. In the dialog that comes up, choose to add new images without moving them.
3. If the problem is gone after this import is done, then use this new catalog from now on.
4. If your catalog was synced, you will have to enable sync for this one. And if you used any publishing services you will have to recreate these.

[steveflowers]

I think I may have fixed it.  I created a new catalog on the C drive and re-imported all my photos again.  It's been a few days and it seems to have fixed it.  I guess LR doesn't like catalogs on external drives?  Anyway, I appreciate the help!

[Geoff the kiwi]

I hope you didnt import the images from your hard drive rather than the old catalog. You will have lost a lot of information and settings.

I have my catalog on an external drive with images and no issue. There was somethng else happening with yours.