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Hello,
I haven't been able to open my usual and only catalog on Lightroom this week. Whenever I try to open it it just gives me this message:
"Unexpected error opening catalog
The catalog could not be opened due to an unexpected error".
Gotta say this is a little frightening, as I basically have all of my eggs on this one Lightroom Catalog's basket.
I'm running it on a Mac Sierra 10.12.6
Solutions I've tried:
Restarting computer
Changing location on the catalog (help I'm desperate)
Thank you to anyone who can help!
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Unzip a recent backup, put this unzipped backup catalog in a brand new empty folder, and see if it will open by double-clicking on it. If that doesn't work, put the unzipped backup catalog on a new disk in a brand new empty folder, and see if it will open by double-clicking on it.
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Hey dj_paige
That works!
Unfortunately my last backup is from February 2022. I'm still wondering if there's anything I can do to recover the work from March-onwards.
Thank you!
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What can you do? First, commit to making regular (once a week or even every day) and automated backups of your LrC Catalog. Also, turn on the LrC feature to "Automatically Write Changes to XMP", this is a partial backup.
Other than that, I am not aware of any steps you can take.