LrC stuck at opening my catalog

Question

Since yesterday Lightroom can no longer open my catelog.

The symptom is when I double-click my catalog there is a gray banner that says "Lightroom - Opening Catalog: Lightroom Catalog-v10.lrcat" but it then stuck in there forever. Meanwhile, I saw the "shm" and "wal" files in the directory repeatedly being created and deleted, and CPU is busy (12.5%).

I tried logging out and in Creative Cloud, uninstalling and reinstalling, but neither helped. I also tried opening a catelog backup but still saw the same issue.

The last time I successfully opened Lightroom was around 10/23, so something happened between 10/23 and 10/31. This coincides with the LR 11 rollout so it's possible that's related.

LrC version: 11.0

OS: Windows 10.0.19043 Build 19043

GoldingD · Answer

Consider resetting the preference file. The preference file can get corrupted leading to buggy behavior. A corrupt preference file will survive uninstalls, reinstalls, updates, upgrades. When you reset the preference file many if not all settings in preferences and elsewhere may revert to defaults

https://helpx.adobe.com/lightroom-classic/help/setting-preferences-lightroom.html

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