Lightroom classic open catalog:image

[Denise_Fehrman2467]

Lightroom classic wont open it says this

[KR Seals]

When Lightroom Classic won't open, two things come to mind.

Look in the Lightroom Classic folder for a file ending in .lock. If you find one, delete that and ONLY file. That file remains when Lightroom Classic is shut down improperly.

The other possiblity is that your catalog is corrupt. Try your most recent backup.

[johnrellis]

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Your screen pic shows:

That's very strange and suggests that your LR is very confused. Normally, that message displays the file name of the catalog's .lrcat file that's being opened, not the file name of a photo:

Hold down the Alt key while you click the LrC icon to launch Lightroom. You should see a window displaying all the catalogs you've previously opened.  Their names should end in .lrcat:

Select the one that's your main catalog and click Open.  Does the catalog open properly?

If you're confused by what the Select Catalog window is displaying, please include a full-resolution screenshot (not a phone pic).

[JohanElzenga]

Building on John's reply: Did you perhaps associate the .jpg extension to Lightroom Classic in Windows, thinking that this would speed up importing pictures into Lightroom Classic because you could now simply double click on a .jpg image to open Lightroom Classic and import it? I'm not sure if Windows allows that, but if it does and that is what you did, then that explains why Lightroom Classic tries to open the picture as catalog. Lightroom Classic is not an image editor like Photoshop. It does not open pictures directly, it has a catalog (a database) that references the images and opens them from there.