Lightroom Reference view dissappeared

[Abigail5D2B]

I was using lightroom earlier today and the reference was there. I restarted my computer and when lighroom booted up again it was gone. What is going on? The toolbar is still there, but reference view is not there and I can't figure out how to get it back

[Theresa J]

What do you mean by reference? Are you trying to open Lightroom Classic? Have you tried opening it from the Creative Cloud desktop app?

[Ian Lyons]

Reference View is only available in the Develop module, and if the 'RA' icon is present in the Toolbar, then it's possible that a corrupt preference file is the issue.

To reset the Lightroom Prefernce file follow the instruction in Method 1 described at https://helpx.adobe.com/lightroom-classic/help/setting-preferences-lightroom.html