P: Failed to initialize AI Edits storage

[pisi]

Hallo, with the recent update of LrC, it upgraded my catalog file and then ended with an error screen telling: Failed to initialize AI Edits storage

What/where is AI Edits storage?

How to open my catalog file?

Windows 10 with latest AMD drivers.

LrC 15.0 Build 202510171722-44f87028

That catalog file is 1.3 GB

free disk space is >100GB

[NotThatBobJames]

I expereinced this today. 

The error is catalog-specific, not programatic. 

The corrupted file is in the .lrcat-data file. 

FIX
Move the .LCAT file to its own, non-cloud folder. Double-click. It will give you an error message about missing previews. Click continue. It will generate all new support files. 
Close LR. Now delete all the files in your original folder, except, optionally, Previews and Smart Previews. Now move all LCAT and the newly generated files into your original LR folder.

Now it should work. 

[johnrellis]

@NotThatBobJames, "The corrupted file is in the .lrcat-data file."

It's important for others reading this to be aware that deleting the .lrcat-data file (which the steps above effectively do) will force new variants of Generative AI Remove to be generated, and you won't be able to recover the original variants. The new variants are more often than not perfectly acceptable, but sometimes they're not, especially if you had examined many variants before deciding on the best one.

[NotThatBobJames]

Didn’t know that! Thanks for letting us all know. For me, it’s not a big deal, as my photos currently are edited and exported and I don’t plan to go back to them.

Yeah, so maybe do such a repair between shoots when you’re caught up 🤣

[cardsnk]

Thanks for the step! This is the only one which restores the catalog without ever uninstall/reinstall lightroom.

[Sunny_Bee1766]

Hola, tenía el mismo error, algo que hice y me funcionó fue verificar el catálogo, sólo debes mantener presionada la tecla Alt (Windows) y cuando abre una ventana, crear un nuevo catálogo.

Eso solucionará el problema del catálogo y te dejará funcionar Lr