Lightroom 6.14 crashes when trying to delete photos or turn on People mode
Hi everyone
(Yes, that is correct, I'm still using 6.14 as I can't justify a monthly outlay for Lightroom in my current financial circustances)
I'm currently trying to make my photo storage more redundant. I used to just store my photos on my Synology NAS but as that didn't provide any actual backup of my images when my laptop decided to die earlier this year I replaced it with a desktop machine (unexpected bills, yay...) with a big HDD to store the photos on and use the NAS properly as a backup.
As I also needed to have a good sort out of the images I'd got stored I'm gradually working through my catalog, deleting images and then moving them over to the local drive via Lightroom. This was working well enough until the last few days when Lightroom has started shutting down during the deletion process. Lightroom does delete the files from the NAS but then crashes before removing reference to the images from the catalog, as when I restart Lightroom and go to the folder the images were removed from, Lightroom still shows the previews for them and complains the images can't be found...
I've been able to work around this somewhat by right-clicking the folder the files were being deleted from in Lightroom and selecting Synchronise (although this again causes Lightroom to crash) but it's not ideal.
Last night also brought to light a new problem in that trying to open the People module also causes Lightroom to crash. That appears to happen regardless of whether the folder I have selected at the time is on the local HDD or on the NAS>
This morning I've tried uninstalling Lightroom completely and reinstalling again but this doesn't appear to have helped.
Does anyone have any suggestions for what I can do to resolve this?
(My system is self-built, Win 10 Pro version 2004 build 19041.685)