Lightroom stuck in opening a catalog

Report · Oct 29, 2023

Hi,

In a earlier post, I mentioned my problem w/ error messages when trying to move photos from one folder to another within lightroom. Thank you for your responses.

My problem now is:

I tried "fixing" a catalog through the lightroom prompts. it told me it had to repair the catalog before it could open it, and apparently it did ( the little box w the green progress strip). I now have a message on my desktop that says "Lightroom-Opening Catalog :B0011384.jpg" After being there for several hours, and not being to get to lightroom I tried task manager, which showed no programs running, I did a restart and the the same message showed up after the restart, and i sill can't get to lightroom.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Report · Oct 29, 2023

Hi,
In a earlier post, I mentioned my problem w/ error messages when trying to move photos from one folder to another within lightroom. Thank you for your responses.
My problem now is:
I tried "fixing" a catalog through the lightroom prompts. it told me it had to repair the catalog before it could open it, and apparently it did ( the little box w the green progress strip). I now have a message on my desktop that says "Lightroom-Opening Catalog :B0011384.jpg" After being there for several hours, and not being to get to lightroom I tried task manager, which showed no programs running, I did a restart and the the same message showed up after the restart, and i sill can't get to lightroom.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks

By cwofsy@hotmail.com

That bit:

"Lightroom-Opening Catalog :B0011384.jpg"

That makes me wonder, what is your catalogs file name?

Us Windows File Explorer, locate that catalog, and perhaps take a screenshot, then post that into a reply.

Report · Oct 30, 2023

Hi,

I was able to stop the catalog repair process, I can now open lightroom.

thanks for the interest in my problem.

Report · Feb 28, 2024

How did you resolve the issue? I'm dealing with the same problem now.

Report · Feb 28, 2024

I'm using Lightroom Classic (maybe that goes without saying).