Lightroom Classic no longer opening

Forum|Forum|4 years ago
March 3, 2022
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My lightroom classic will not open anymore. It was fine 2 days ago and my photoshop works but lightroom won't. I have restarted my computer, updated the app (said my lightroom was open but I had no way to access it at all), and tried opening it through other ways but it still won't open. When I click on it, my mouse has the loading symbol for a second then it goes away and nothing happens, how do I fix this without redownloading it?

Windows

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Rob_Cullen

Community Expert

"said my lightroom was open..."

If I interpret this another way, it possibly means that a .LOCK file is preventing you from opening the catalog.

LOCK FILE DELETION - LR-CLASSIC

Regards. My System: Windows-11, Lightroom-Classic 15.1.1, Photoshop 27.3.1, ACR 18.1.1, Lightroom 9.0, Lr-iOS 10.4.0, Bridge 16.0.2 .

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Taylor23427938uxhcAuthor

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Followed this, deleted my lock files and still have no lightroom. Im not even getting an error file of any kind it just doesn't open.

Sean McCormack

Community Expert

If Lightrooms' crashed and appears closed, either task manager to force it to quit or a restart are required. If this isn't working, try resetting the preferences.

Sean McCormack. Author of 'Essential Development 3'. Magazine Writer. Former Official Fuji X-Photographer.

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Taylor23427938uxhcAuthor

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Ive openend it in task manager and I only get the option to end task, so I ended all the tasks involving lightroom and tried to open it back up to no avail. It says its running in the background everytime I try to open it though, is that possibly the issue?

John Waller

Community Expert

Which version of Lightroom? Which operating system?