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marcello_cruz
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September 9, 2024
Question

Lightroom not opening my catalog

  • September 9, 2024
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Hi all. Last week I opened my catalog on Lightroom without any problem. Today I took some pictures and when I try to open my catalog to import the photos I got this message "The Lightroom catalog cannot be opened because another application already has it opened." First thing what I did was restart the Mac. Tried again to open and same message. Updated to latest version of Lightroom and same message. So I follow this:

 

https://helpx.adobe.com/lightroom-classic/kb/lightroom-error-catalog-cannot-be-opened-lrcat-lock.html

After this, when I tried to open again the catalog got this message "An error prevented Lightroom Classic from opening this catalog".

 

Next step was try this:

 

https://helpx.adobe.com/lightroom-classic/help/failure-in-opening-catalog.html

 

But no way. Same message "An error prevented Lightroom Classic from opening this catalog".

Now, my catalog can't open. From the latest 1 year, for me, Lightroom Classic is coming with a lot of problems. Dunno what is happening. I'm using MacOs Sonoma 14.6.1

 

Any chance to open again my catalog? Thanks!

 

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dj_paige
Legend
September 9, 2024

"An error prevented Lightroom Classic from opening this catalog".

 

Try opening a recent backup of your catalog file.