lightroom backup

[angela sue]

I have backed up my LR catalog on 2 seperate drives, after backing up, I have tried to open each one of the back ups, however, I get a pop up on each of them that says - Lightroom cannot use the catalog named "name of catalog" because it is not writable and cannot be opened.  

Hoping someone can help me solve this problem.

[GoldingD]

You have to unzip them. (on Windows, provisional on MAC

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9RGsNOI4qs

[angela sue]

Thank you!!  That was a simple solution....that I should have known 🙂

[JP Hess]

I just went through the process of restoring a backup the other day. I extracted the catalog from the zip file and then copied that catalog to the folder where the damaged catalog was. Then I double clicked on the catalog and LrC opened normally. I could have started LrC in the normal fashion as well. Did you do something similar to what I did?