Lightroom will not open launch

Report · May 27, 2023

Please help!

This is the second time this has happened to lightroom along with while using photoshop it would just shut itself down!

I turn my pc on, click on LRC and I see

"The lightroom catalog named "lightroom catalog" cannot be opened because another application already has it opened.

quit the other copy of lightroom before trying to launch

options

choose a different catalog continue exit

None work

I check in task manager and there is no lightroom running

Can anyone suggest what i can do to fix this issue and to avoid it in the future?

thanks

Report · May 27, 2023

"it would just shut itself down!"

As your LrC crashed, the lock file was not deleated as it would normaly have been upon proper closure.

See:

"This is the second time this has happened to lightroom along with while using photoshop it would just shut itself down!"

Another issue, is why is that occuring? What are you trying to do in LrC when that occurs? Is it often?