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[Kuwac2000]

I have reinstalled Lightroom Classic, but I cant activate the program. Vaiting vaiting...

After having closed the program and restart the following annaunce men occour.

"The Lightroom catalog named Ligtroom Catalog cannot be opend because another applicatio already has i open. Guit the other copy of Lightroom before trying to launch."

I dont recal I have other promgrams running.

Erik

[Rob_Cullen · Accepted solution]

It is not 'another program'. It is a "Lock" file that normally is deleted when Lightroom closes. (correctly!).

In a File Browser, locate you Catalog, and delete the file that is named similar to- {LIGHTROOM CATALOG.lrcat.LOCK}

***DO NOT DELETE the CATALOG FILE!!! {LIGHTROOM CATALOG.LRCAT}

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

[Kuwac2000]

Thank You. It was very Helpfull.

Erik.