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During LR startup I get a Server Busy Window that says
This action cannot be completed because the other program is busy. Choose switch to to activate the busy program and correct the problem.
This does correct the problem but why is this necessary and how to I get rid of the error during start up?
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A fix to Lightroom's “Server Busy Error” on a Windows 7 64 bit computer:
I see in the discussion threads there are a LOT of frustrated people over this Server Busy issue, so I hope this helps someone. This is what Adobe tech support had me do, which fixed my problem. I got through on the phone right away, and the fix took no longer than 20 minutes to determine, with the support person remoting into my computer.
- I already had Lightroom 5.6 installed through my Creative Cloud subscription, and it h
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2 days and no reply. I thought Adobe professionals read these discussions. Do I need to call support?
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Well, it's not an answer, but you can add me to the people getting the same error now..............
Just tried to create a new catalog and now LR has puked all over it's feet again...
Gads, I truly DESPISE calling Adobe support.... and rarely getting any.
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Thanks for your input Dave. This at least helps keep the topic current.
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SAME HEAR OR WORSE THE PERSON YOU GET HAS NO IDEA WHAT ENGLISH IS.
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I also have been getting these messages for the past 3 or 4 weeks. Usually it happens when I start LR (I'm currently running LR 5.5 under Windows 7 Ultimate). So far it hasn't stopped me from using LR, after clicking on Switch to... or Retry. It's annoying, and scary too, because I have a large catalog,
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On my system, once I got the popup I couldn't get rid of it. Hitting cancel or retry indefinitely had no effect. I'd have to bring up the task manager and kill the Lightroom process, then kill the popup process...
I finally clobbered Lightroom and reinstalled it. BUT, I've also been having bizarre and problematic things happen with CC - NOTHING will install from the application manager - everything throws either a 205 error or an A12E5...... I finally resorted to finding the links to Photoshop, Lightrooml, Application Manager, Extension Manager, and so on, and installing them manually.
Before I started clobbering software, I looked at processes. I had
3 Adobe CEF Helper processes
AdobeIPCBroker.exe
After the reinstall of Lightroom, the first time it started it told me the "Develop module is disabled" and that I'd have to renew my membership. Rebooted the system, restarted LR, and it stopped complaining......
And processes now include:
3 Adobe CEF Helper processes
AdobeIPCBroker.exe
Creative Cloud.exe
I do NOT recall any Creative Cloud process when I was getting the error...
I have NO idea if the two things are related, and frankly, CC is so screwed up at this point that I'm not about to shut down anything, start up anything, upgrade anything or do anything that may cause me to be unable to get work done.
You might try starting Creative Cloud, or make sure it's already running and see if that makes any difference.
In truth, although this isn't an "official" Adobe support component, I'm more than a little appalled that nobody from Adobe that's involved/responsible for some of this software has bothered to get involved in this problem. But, I believe it goes back to the "who hates adobe" topic... As has been said - they've now got a guaranteed pipeline of income, whether they improve the products, correct major problems, or provide decent support or not... I don't know if Adobe support was off-shored BEFORE CC, but it sure seems to be now...
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A fix to Lightroom's “Server Busy Error” on a Windows 7 64 bit computer:
I see in the discussion threads there are a LOT of frustrated people over this Server Busy issue, so I hope this helps someone. This is what Adobe tech support had me do, which fixed my problem. I got through on the phone right away, and the fix took no longer than 20 minutes to determine, with the support person remoting into my computer.
- I already had Lightroom 5.6 installed through my Creative Cloud subscription, and it had worked for a few weeks for me, although with increasing problems with the Server Busy box popping up. I was able to get rid of it by switching to Switch and Retry, but eventually it locked me out entirely.
- Tech Support told me the problem was a permissions issue.
- Try the following and see if it solves your problem:
- In C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Adobe, find the SL Cache folder and move it to your Desktop.
- In C:\ProgramData\Adobe, find the SL Store folder and move it to your Desktop.
- R Click on your Lightroom icon and “Run as Administrator”.
- If it opens correctly, that shows it is working now.
- Close Lightroom and reopen the application normally.
At this point I was good to go again. 9/17/14
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Thank you photoguy815. I spent at least 45 mins. chatting online with support, and had to leave. No resolution. Came back this afternoon, searched and found this. Works great. Hope it continues!
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Oops, spoke too soon. Now getting message that my Develop Module has been disabled and that I need to renew my membership to reactivate! Can't open the Creative Cloud app, and now getting pop up again. (Not blaming this on you at all. I just want to start all over and reinstall, but can't download because I can't open the Creative Cloud window! Argh!!!!
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Thank you so much. I used your bullet list of steps (although I simply renamed the directories to ????.xxx), and the problem evaporated. Excellent.
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It worked for me. Exactly as you said photoguy815.
Thank you very much for taking your time to share this information.
It will save people a lot of time for not having to go through Adobe Customer Service.
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PhotoGuy815, I hope you don't mind if I express my love for you right here. I've been wrestling with this Server Busy error for a while now but I always managed to get in to LR eventually. Then this morning it seems that the final straw was delivered and I had to come searching for this thread. Solution took all of 30 seconds to implement and problem is now solved (and I am pretty sure that LR started a little faster than it used to even before the Server Busy error started cropping up!)
Thank you for posting it!
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Hi,
I cannot find the SL Cache.
Any advice?
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Thank you thank you Photoguy...I was about to return Lightroom 6...I'm not a CC member and purchased it as an upgrade to LR 5...Server Busy message followed by not responding... I reinstalled LR 6 which worked only temporarily... Your fix got it to open, though I had to re-enter my license key for both products....Hopefully I won't have to do that every time I open it...Thanks again.
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Brace yourself Judy... I've 'fixed' this very common problem in Dreamweaver but for some inexplicable reason it hung up again last night and now I've got to go through the whole thing all over again. I'm told Its a memory flooding issue. Doesn't matter how much RAM you have, eventually it will fill it up and hang your system.
The next time you boot it, the problem will return. Don't forget how you fixed it because if its done it once, it will do it again and again, and again. I'll tell you waht I've told every other working photographer I know who gets this problem. WRITE TO ADOBE AND DEMAND THEY FIX IT!
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Cool, it works on my work account, the test now comes for my personal account at home. Fingers crossed.
I am a lot happier now. Boy this has been a bug bare for a while, hopefully Adobe fixes this for future releases.
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Thank you Thank You Thank you, not only did this fix the Server busy issue, it also corrected a huge hang time when opening the import window!
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Martinv31309715 --
Which fix did it for you -- we can't tell from your response who you were thanking ...
martinv31309715 Jul 1, 2015 2:46 AM (in response to photoguy815)
Thank you Thank You Thank you, not only did this fix the Server busy issue, it also corrected a huge hang time when opening the import window!
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The one from photoguy815 on 9/17/2014 ... here.
He mentions the routine at the end of this message. The only thing I have left to do is dig in and better understand why this fixes the problem. And I don't want to keep those two directories on my desktop even though it looks like they may have been regenerated when I started Dreamweaver. As a side note ... in step 3 when I ran DW as administrator it asked me to sign in to my creative cloud account which I had already done ... and then it notified me that the DW installation would be tied to my Creative Cloud ID ... which, I would have thought was the case already. It actually looked like it was "applying permissions" to the application that should have been done when I first installed DW. Regardless, there is nothing like stable software to help you be more productive and now I can use DW without having to go through 5 minutes of gyrations to get it started.
[photoguy815 instructions]
Try the following and see if it solves your problem:
- In C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Adobe, find the SL Cache folder and move it to your Desktop.
- In C:\ProgramData\Adobe, find the SL Store folder and move it to your Desktop.
- R Click on your Lightroom icon and “Run as Administrator”.
- If it opens correctly, that shows it is working now.
- Close Lightroom and reopen the application normally.
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OK, thanks. I tried the process below today (again) to see what would happen.
It worked for the first two times I opened Lightroom, then I was back to the old "Retry/Switch To" routine.
I do wish there were a fix for this.
What I tried:
[photoguy815 instructions]
Try the following and see if it solves your problem:
- In C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Adobe, find the SL Cache folder and move it to your Desktop.
- In C:\ProgramData\Adobe, find the SL Store folder and move it to your Desktop.
- R Click on your Lightroom icon and “Run as Administrator”.
- If it opens correctly, that shows it is working now.
- Close Lightroom and reopen the application normally.
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Has not worked for me.
Since removing the folders affects the registry info I knew I would have to take care of that issue but on restart (Administrator) it took about 10 minutes to see the Splash Screen and immediately the error showed up again. Takes about 5-10 minutes each time the error shows up before I can clear it and actually get to work.
I really get tired of the finger pointing from Adobe to Microsoft..... Just fix the damn problem.
I'm ready to abandon Lightroom after the the latest update and their lame import dialog changes then going back again in a matter of a few days and then this problem. DXO is looking better all the time.
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I'm with Bob here; Adobe which usually does a better than average job on product quality has really screwed 6.x up royally. DXO does do a nice import job; I need something that has a catalog supported... Recommendations?
Oh, Adobe, I can't tell you how lame support has gotten either. You guys use to have pretty good support... now, the guys have a hard time reading English in chat....
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Just tried this process for Dreamweaver CC and it does not work. It stopped working and I had to reinstall Dreamweaver by downloading it from Adobe site again, but still keep getting the same server busy message. Any ideas anyone?

