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Hi all!
I have used LR for many years, usually on a daily basis. Some professional work, but also a lot for just personal use. I maintain it well, have it set to remind me about optimise/back-up every shut down, which I do probably once a week or so.
A couple of days ago it suddenly crashed on me. Initially I just tried basic shutting down and restarting etc. When it continued to crash every use I then went to next steps. I turned the GPU use in Lightroom from auto to off. I deleted the preferences file (I have backups). It still crashed every time. I suspectected it could be a sync issue as some of the extra long photos on my phone were in my online account but hadn't come to my computer. Therefore I deleted all photos in my online account so there was nothing to sync. It didn't seem to work immediately and I found three old partially synced photos, which I deleted, and then it was showing up correctly as up to date, nothing uploading/downloading. However, it still crashed everytime. I tried rolling back to 9.3 and re-deleting preferences. Still crashing. I tried completely uninstalling, and then manually deleting everything in Local/Roaming. The only things I didn't delete were the catalogue itself and the Lightroom Settings Folder (which I have stored with catalogue) with all my presets in and other thingsi n the Pictures/Lightroom folder. I then reinstalled 9.4. Still crashing. I have tried leaving sync on pause, in case it was that, but that makes no difference. I have tried closing antivirus etc.
I thought I'd check with a second catalogue I have. This seems to work without crashing (I was surprised as I had thought it was the system). This leaves me thinking that there must be either an issue with my main catalogue, something within it (such as corrupted images) or it is a sync issue not resolved by having nothing to sync (as my second catalogue isn't set up to sync). However, I have never had an error message when optimising the catalogue.
By 'crash' I mean that when I start LR it initially says 'not responding' at the top for a moment, but then settles and appears normal. At this point I can do editing/keywording/change modules as normal. However after a few minutes - whether I'm doing something or have just left it untouched - and whichever module it's in - I get an Adobe crash message asking me to send in a crash report. I have sent in a few, but not every time whilst figuring it out (it's been at least 50 times so far). The only other thing I have noticed is that in Windows Task Manager it described Lightroom's status as 'suspended'. I don't know if this is normal - I've not seen it before, but I don't normally have task manager opened!
I would appreciate any advice whatsoever. Specs are below. I've not recently done anything unusual in LR - this last week I have been tagging, deleting and a bit of editing. Nothing unusual on my computer, and everything else is working fine. I did notice there was a Nvidia GEForce experience update a week ago - but it continued to work fine for several days after this (and I've switched off GPU).
Thank you for your time and any help at all. Much appreciated.
Specs:
LR Classic CC 9.4
Main Catalogue c36,000 images.
Windows 10 Home (10.0.18363)
Nvidia GTX 1050Ti 4gb
16GB RAM
i7-7700HQ
McAfee Total Protection
MalwareBytes
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I'm not sure if this will help, or provide more info about the issue but what if you select ONE image, and use the Export as Catalog command. Now try working with this new catalog, maybe importing from current location (or Sync Folder) some then all images: Still crashing as described?
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Hi there!
thanks so much for reading through and replying.
Since I wrote the post I tried again - going from my second (working) catalogue and re-launching into my main one. For the first time it came up with an error message - it said it had encountered an error with the catalog file. I relaunched and it attempted a repair, which failed. I can now no longer get into it and have those few minutes of working time to do as you suggest. I don't know why this error message didn't come up previously, and wonder if the constant restarting could have exacerbated the issue. (I have edited the original post to add this in).
I am wondering if there is someone I could send the catalogue to, to see if there is any hope. I can see this is possible on another forum, but I'm not sure if that is possible with anyone here, as I realise everyone is kindly giving up their time.
Thanks again.
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This being a user to user forum, sending anyone here a catalog wouldn't do much.
But Adobe people DO access the other forum below, you might start a thread there and request having someone at Adobe internally look at the catalog:
https://feedback.photoshop.com/photoshop_family
Of course, make the thread in the LR part of this forum. Good luck.
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Thanks again. That's what I thought. I'll investigate either the forum you link to or the one I found to see if anyone is able to look at it.
Thanks so much.