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pjotrett
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December 9, 2021
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Lightroom stopped working after upgrade to Mac OS Monterey

  • December 9, 2021
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As I had to upgrade Mac OS to Monterey to be able to use Rush, included in the Photography Plan, Lightroom Classic stopped working. When I restarted LR after upgrade to Mac OS Monterey it started to convert the Cataloue for a minute but than stopped and said that it could not convert the Catalogue, no reason told!
It's very critical as I use LR as my main program daily. How do I solve this issue???
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reddy0D4C
Participant
July 2, 2022

Same thing happen to me today

 

Bob Somrak
Bob Somrak
Legend
July 2, 2022

What SAME THING?  

 

Did you also upgrade from Mojave to Monterey and upgrade an older Lightroom to Lightroom Classic like the OP did.

M4 Pro Mac Mini. 48GB
GoldingD
GoldingD
Legend
December 11, 2021

Have you looked at the file and folders rights as described above?

 

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pjotrettAuthor
Known Participant
December 12, 2021

No, I've just read it. I would'nt dare to do this alone as I have already messed it up, so tomorrow a Lr expert will help me to solve my issues. Until then I am thankful for any solution tips you guys can provide until tomorrow.

GoldingD
GoldingD
Legend
December 10, 2021

Ok, MACOS was Mojave, so Cyber Security changes that started in MACOS Catalina apply, and you would have not accidentally tripped over that before.

 

Read:

https://nektony.com/duplicate-finder-free/folders-permission

starting with fixing application rights in Files and Folders, then perhaps going full in and giving application rights to Full Disk Access (normally overkill). And if you use the MACOS folder Photos, deal with that as well.

 

 

 

 

 

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pjotrettAuthor
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December 12, 2021
I'll take it from the beginning.
1) To get full access to Adobe Rush, included i Photographer Plan, I started upgrading my Mac OS which was then 10.? Mojave.
2) Now I also started to upgrade Lr Classic. I do not know which version I had more than that it said on the icon Lr.
3) After upgrading LrC I have 11.0.1 [202111111509-eae8952e]
4) When I now start LrC, I am prompted to upgrade the old Catalog called Lightroom Catalog-2.lrcat to the new one called Lightroom Catalog-2-v11.lrcat
5) What happens now is that it starts upgrading but then stops and a dialog box appears saying: "There was a problem updating the Catalog file format and the directory in this Lightrom version could not be used."
kentdesign
Community Expert
kentdesignCommunity Expert
Community Expert
December 9, 2021

LR only updates a catalog when you do an update of LR.

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pjotrettAuthor
Known Participant
December 9, 2021

So you mean that I should downgrade LR rather than Mac OS?

 

kentdesign
Community Expert
kentdesignCommunity Expert
Community Expert
December 10, 2021

Not necessarily. We are all still wondering what OS you WERE using and what version of LR you WERE using. And then, please tell us what changed? You installed Mac OS Monterey, then tried to open a previous catalog?

    GoldingD
    GoldingD
    Legend
    December 9, 2021

    What was your previous MACOS?

     

    TheDigitalDog
    TheDigitalDog
    Inspiring
    December 9, 2021

    What was the last version of LR you used prior to the OS update? The OS update alone would not cause a conversion of the Catalog. Lightroom Classic runs fine on this end, under Monterey.

    Do you have a backup of this catalog?

    Author “Color Management for Photographers" & "Photoshop CC Color Management/pluralsight"
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    pjotrettAuthor
    Known Participant
    December 9, 2021

    The OS was 10 Mojave and LR from 2019 or so, maybe somewhat earlier.

    Yes, I've got back ups but I dont think it's any issues with the Catalog. Only that it had to be converted to the latest one.

    TheDigitalDog
    TheDigitalDog
    Inspiring
    December 9, 2021

    So again, just an OS update wouldn't alter or affect the catalogs.

    Going a major version from Lightroom Classic will often ask for a catalog update AND it will backup the older catalog.

    A 2019 version of LR is pretty old. What may have happened is, the Adobe CC application updated to a newer version, but you'd be told of this, then yes, a catalog update would happen.

    So lets start from scratch: What version of Lightroom Classic are you now running?

    You really need if possible, to find an backup of the older catalog. You're not doing any backups or Time Machine?

    What's not specifically working now? You can launch the newer version but can't open the catalog, it provides an error of some kind?

    Author “Color Management for Photographers" & "Photoshop CC Color Management/pluralsight"
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