So today when i was opening LrC i got a message that my catalog was opened in another machine, wich it was not. There was an option of opening a old backup, or the file in the folder where the current catalog should be. So I went ahaed and opened the suposed current file, and there was nothing a completly empty lightroom. As my most recent backup is four monts old, i would like to know if there is some way to restore the correct catalog.
The error message- "catalog was opened in another machine" really means- " the catalog was NOT closed down properly when last used" and a {.LOCK] file was left next to the Catalog {.LRCAT} file.
If you followed the instructions in the link given by @GoldingD then you should have fixed the problem.
Now tell us what you see. Did you delete a .LOCK file from the 'wrong' catalog folder?
If it did not work, you may have deleted the wrong .lock file. You must find the .lock file in the same folder as your catalog, and then delete that .lock file.
Because you let Lightroom create a new catalog when it could not open the correct one, it will now still open that new catalog after you deleted the .lock file. You have to go to the 'File - Recent Catalogs' menu and open the correct one.
By the way: you did not get a message that the catalog was opened on another machine, but that is was opened by another app. In this case that doesn't matter because we know what you meant, but this kind of misinformation could lead to a long thread of useless answers, so try to be accurate when describing a problem.
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