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Hi
After it crashed I am getting the "LR catalogue cannot be opened because another application already has it open". I have followed the instructions to locate the locked file but it isn't in any of the LR files on my computer and although the message says "if it is there" there are no instructions on what to do if it isn't.
Has anyone got any ideas please.
Thanks Lynda
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By default it should be in a subfolder named lightroom located on your hdd your user a/c > pictures/ my pictures > lightroom, it will have the same name as your catalog and will end .lrcat.lock extension. just delete the lock file and not anything else.
See the screen capture from the Lightroom subfolder on my iMac. The .lock file should only be there when Lightroom is open and it should get automatically deleted when Lightroom is closed. Your crash would have aborted that process.
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If you didn't find the .lock file, then you are looking in the wrong folder with the wrong Lightroom catalog. Please search your computer USING YOUR OPERATING SYSTEM'S SEARCH FEATURE and find all files whose name ends with .LRCAT (might be lower case), and then delete the .lock file if there is one in that folder and try opening the catalog. If that's not the catalog, keep going using the search until all .LRCAT files have been tried.
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Your Catalog file was located in Downloads?
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"downloads" is not a good place for the catalog.
I would move it to someplace more appropriately named, like "/Lr_Catalog" off the root of the drive.