How to repair corrupt Lightroom 4 catalog

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June 10, 2013
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Hi,

I use Adobe Lightroom 4.3 64bit and am having problem with a corrupt catalog. The catalog contains a couple years of exposures with approx 87,000 photographs. I am running LR on Win 7 with quad core CPU and 10Mb RAM. I have used Lightroom for couple years and only problems I had experienced have been intermittent performance issues with LR. The years of photographs are in RAW format with editing in Develop module.

I was using Lightroom 4.3 and it froze the computer while using develop module. I had to power off to reboot and LR catalog was corrupted. I reverted to the LR backup (I back up daily). After importing photographs, LR once again froze the computer during Develop work. And, another backup was corrupted.

I went ahead and upgraded to LR 4.4 in hope that this will improve the situation. I ran chkdsk and other system utilities as well.

I need Adobe to repair this corrupt catalog so I don;t keep wasting my time.

Please advise next steps.

Thanks,

Frank M

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essaytee

Participant

If the above doesn’t work, not all is lost. It didn’t work for me, and I tried the following, hoping it would work.

Enter into the sqlite3 program command mode, type the following and hit the enter key:

.open YourCorruptedLRCatalog.lrcat

Then type the following and hit the enter key:

.clone NewCatalog.lrcat

To exit the command prompt (exit out of the sqlite3 application) type the following and hit enter:

.quit

I’m not certain what precisely happens, but my corrupted file was 1.4 GB in size and the newly created file, a clone came back as 980 MB in size. The cloning process must ignore so-called deleted data or whatever.

Anyway, copy the newly created catalog file back to your LR folder, rename it to the original file.

The above worked for me.

Steve

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mehtratan123

Participant

I have a major major major problem. I haven't backed up my catalog in months!

is there anyone here who can tell me how to fix the catalog?

I can't even duplicate it on the mac. It shows (Error code -36).

I am completely devastated.