LrC does not respond to the 'create collection' command.

Forum|Forum|10 months ago
March 1, 2025
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My Lightroom Classic has been giving me problems for a few days now. It does not respond to the 'create collection' command. I have to close the program and reopen it to let me do it.
I have 6481 photos in these collections. Is this too many? Should I start deleting folders?

Windows

LuisPitaAuthor

Known Participant

Done. I don't have time to test it now. I hope this works. Thank you very much.

JohanElzenga

Community Expert

No, that is unlikely to be the problem. Start by resetting the preferences: https://www.lightroomqueen.com/how-do-i-reset-lightrooms-preferences/

-- Johan W. Elzenga

LuisPitaAuthor

Known Participant

Good afternoon. I finally tested today if the reset had worked and unfortunately I have to say that it did not. The problem persists. I cannot 'create a collection', in the 'Collections' option in the vertical menu on the left of the desktop.

LuisPitaAuthor

Known Participant

Why do you think the method I described to duplicate your catalog would be risky? This is a designed method to merge two catalogs, not some hack. People use it all the time without any problems, and because you make a copy, there is no risk that it does something bad to your current catalog. There is no 100% guarantee that this will fix it, but many people before you have successfully solved catalog problems this way.

Lightroom Classic does have a built-in method to fix corrupted catalogs, but like everything else in this world there is no 100% guarantee. There is no guarantee that Lightroom Classic always detects the corruption (it apparently does not if your catalog is indeed corrupted) and there is no 100% guarantee that Lightroom Classic would be able to fix the corruption even if it did detect it.

Dear Johan, thank you again for your patience and your time.

I will explain my position with an analogy. I have been driving cars for almost fifty years (quite well, I can say) but I have never in all that time put my head under the hood, simply because I don't know what's going on in there. The same with Ps, with LrC and a few other programs I drive. If something doesn't work I ask someone to fix it for me (paying, most of the time) for the simple reason that I have absolutely no idea how they work.

I'm a photographer, not a computer expert, and that's the way it's going to stay.

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