LRC not opening on windows 11

Probably best if you start a chat with Adobe. In the chat describe your problem just as you have above (copy paste the text?) And probably refer to this discussion (copy paste the url). And then be assertive as to requesting an actual Adobe Tech to contact you or be placed into contact with one (the Chat is clearly AI, not a person)

Oh, and keep good notes so that you can share back with others the solution.

for example. bring up a Adobe Support page, this one comes to mind:

• Lightroom Classic Learn & Support

Bring up your Windows File Manager. Locate your catalog. Take a screenshot of that and post in a reply (please)

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

LRC stopped opening all of a sudden on laptop with windows 11. I was running v13.4 and reinstalled and still wouldn't open. It shows up in task manager only. I deleted again and installed the earlier version and it worked fine for a month the there was an update to windows 11 and it repeated the same problem. I deleted and reintalled the last three versions and LRC still won't open, only shows up in task manager. I've read some of the fixes and tried looking for the cache file metrics. json to delete it like suggested and its not there.

Thanks in advance for any ideas you can offer

[Moved from ‘Bugs’ to ‘Discussions’ by moderator, according to forum rules. A ‘bug’ is not just another word for any problem with software!]

[Then merged with duplicate post. Please do not double post]