v.14.0.1 Catalog Corrupted after Denoising 150 images! App crashed and now it says corrupt catalog!

[RZN_8]

I have been using LRC for several years now and never had any issues till now. 

Configuration: iMac 27" intel i9, 96gb ram, LRC catalog and images stored on external Samsung 980 SSD/ MacOS 15.1.1

I udated to MacOS 15.1 a month ago, LRC seemed faster, but within the last week its been crashing after it completes a denoising batch process.  

- I repair the catalog and optimize it and it works fine. 

Today I started a batch denoise of 150 images. It completed and I went to open one and it crashed. 

I restart the app, its says catalog corrupted!!!

I then try and repair it, and it fails to repair. 

Now it says "An error prevented Lightroom Classic from Opening this catalog. "

I also updated to macOS 15.1.1 today which was security issue fix so I can't imagine it affected the LRC Cat file. 

How do I repair this? 

I tried the right click option on the LRC catalog but it does not show any option to show package contents!  ( as per the  adobe website! https://helpx.adobe.com/lightroom-classic/help/failure-in-opening-catalog.html) 

Mac

1. Open the location of the catalog. The default location of the catalog would be in the Pictures folder. 

2. Right-click the catalog-name.lrcat-data folder and select show package contents.

3. Delete the "CURRENT" file.

4. Open Lightroom Classic and ignore the same error message that may pop-up.

5. Re-open Lightroom Classic again.

   No idea why I can't open the catalog file to show package contents.

Need guidance since there's no way to call Adobe support.

Thank you advance.

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[JohanElzenga]

Make sure you try to open the 'catalog.lrcat-data' file, not the 'catalog.lrcat' file.

[dj_paige]

Restore a recent backup of your catalog file.