Lightroom hangs on startup after update to 8.4

[shih huangl78780351]

I am on MacOS 10.14.6 Macbook Pro 13 2016 no touch bar with eGPU AMD Radeon 580

Lightroom won't open with my catalog, it just hang/crash upon start up.

Tried backups of my catalog up to a year ago and no luck, new catalog works fine but unable to import my old catalog.

after 4 hours of all kind of test, I decided to roll back to 8.31 and voila everything works as expected....

I really don't mind using the old version, but this is extremely frustrating.

[TheDigitalDog]

If you delete the preferences, and LR doesn't attempt to load that catalog, does it at least launch or it crashes as it's launching?

[shih huangl78780351]

It does start up, it just won’t load my catalog, a new catalog works fine

[TheDigitalDog]

OK, that's good to know.

Then open without the catalog of course (cause you can't) go under Help and provide the System Info for perhaps someone from Adobe who can decipher it. That might be a clue.

And you did delete preferences?

How to set Lightroom Classic preferences

[shih huangl78780351]

deleted pref, reset, uninstall reinstall, nothing works.

I even tried creating a new catalo and import my old one, didn’t work.

I now roll back to 8.31 to finish workin on current project , will do the help thing when I finish workin.

learned my lesson, turn off auto update immediately.....

[Victoria Bampton LR Queen]

https://forums.adobe.com/people/shih+huangl78780351  wrote

deleted pref, reset, uninstall reinstall, nothing works.

Can I please get you to report it on the official bug forum. Instructions are here: https://www.lightroomqueen.com/send-bug-report-feature-request-adobe/

I'm tracking 3 very similar-sounding reports, so the engineers need to be aware of it. Thanks

[Tiboine]

I have (well, my friend have this excact problem)

I have spent almost 2 days reinstalling, etc etc to try to get it to work. same symptons as OP. Imac

[GoldingD]

And did you make sure that in the folder containing the catalog the .lrcat file that no lock file still exists?

Lightroom catalog cannot be opened