Lightroom Classic Catalogue Error - Unable to be Repaired

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Good Morning!I have an issue with my Lightroom Catalogue in that Lightroom can not open it. I tried repairing it and received a prompt to reach out to Adobe Support. Any suggestions on recovering the images and edits stored in my catalogue without reimporting them? Best Regards, Gfrench

dj_paige · Accepted Answer

You find where the backup catalogs are stored, unzip them, and then copy the unzipped file to the folder where the current catalog is located (thereby overwriting the current catalog with the backup).

If that makes you nervous, you can copy the zipped file to a brand new empty folder and then double-click on it to open it in Lightroom Classic.

dj_paige · Answer

Any suggestions on recovering the images and edits stored in my catalogue without reimporting them? The images are not in the catalog, so recovering those is not necessary, they are on your hard disk. You need to restore a recent backup copy of your catalog file to recover the edits. Re-importing causes Lightroom Classic to consider these to be brand new photos that it has never seen before and so these photos will have no edits and no user-supplied metadata.

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