Lightroom opens then crashes

[janellevans22]

My Adobe Lightroom Classic crashes when I try to open it. I'm a fool and don't have my catalog or presets backed up, so I don't want to uninstall it. Any advice? I'm on a MacBook Pro up-to-date with verison 11.4

[TheDigitalDog]

First, try resetting your Lightroom preferences:
https://helpx.adobe.com/lightroom-classic/help/setting-preferences-lightroom.html

Did you have preferences set for opening a specific catalog OR Prompt for Catalog?

[GoldingD]

And you have checked for a lock file that did not get properly deleted?

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