Lightroom couldn't make backup when closing & is now stuck in repairing the catalog

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Hi, the whole day I have been editing in Lightroom Classic. But when I closed it at the end of the day it came with a message that it couldn't make a backup and it just closed.

Then I tried to open lightroom again, and it now tells me my catalog is corrupted and that I need to repair it. But when trying to repair it the green bar is stuck at the end. If I can't repair it my whole day of work will be gone...

I have had this problem one time before, like a month ago but different. Then the catalog was corrupted and the last 2 backups to, so then I needed to go back to the third backup and work again from there. But the problems are back now...

dj_paige · Answer

Possibility 1: Your hard disk is malfunctioning. This is causes repeated catalog corruption. As a temporary test, try unzipping a recent backup and place it directly onto a different disk than where the original is stored. Do not place it on the same disk as the original. Then double-click on it to open it.

Possibility 2: the catalog file is stored on some disk that is synced to the cloud (OneDrive, DropBox, and similar), try unzipping a recent backup and placing it in a folder that is not synced to the cloud. Double-click on the recent backup to open it.

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