Deleting specific backed-up Catalog causes issues

[DaBrownCO]

I back-up my catalogs regularly and have my preferences set to Open Most Recent Catalog. To free up disk space, I delete old back-ups. However, when I delete a specific back-up and the one to which show as the location of the catalog, things get messed up. This is a fairly new issue that arose about 3-4 months ago.

I would think the location of the catalog would update to the most recent back-up. 

What am I misunderstanding or doing wrong? Thank you

[JohanElzenga · Accepted solution]

Could you please explain what "However, when I delete a specific back-up and the one to which show as the location of the catalog" means? You can delete any backup catalog you want. Lightroom Classic does not use them. So if deleting a backup catalog causes a problem, then most likely what you deleted was not a backup catalog but your working catalog.

[DaBrownCO]

Johan, that is exactly what the issue was. I have my catalog and back-ups on iCloud and the folders use the same naming format, which caused the problem. I renamed the folder with my catalog in it so should be good now. Thanks.