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March 1, 2020
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local catalog damaged

  • March 1, 2020
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i go to open lightroom (not lightroom classic) and a red message pops up saing local catalog damaged. below that it says you can fix this problem by restoring from your cloud backup and gives step by step below but i cant find the file they start off with for this procedure. ive tried uninstalling and reinstalling the app on my computer, restarting my computer, and searching through my documents but cant find anything. i just want to be able to edit my photos again, please help

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    Correct answer john beardsworth

    Just confirm, when you start Lightroom do you see a splash screen with a brown dog or a Paris street?

     

    What operating system? If Mac, go to Pictures, on and you'll see a file called Lightroom Library.lrlibrary - that's the local catalog. As Lightroom's catalog is in the cloud, you can delete this local catalog (or just rename it) and restarting LR will make it recreate one.

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    Victor265282496clh
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    October 10, 2022

    🙏🙏🙏 Thanks for this post!!! 

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    Danielle25687186t374
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    August 17, 2022

    I can not locate this file? Can someone detail this a bit more

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    DemetricButlerPhotography
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    December 17, 2021

    This solution worked perfectly.  I think whoever wrote the solution for Adobe needs to try again.  Their solution did not work and had me pulling my hair out.

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    default00hoxjcpj6t9
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    November 15, 2021

    Thank you so much!!  This worked perfectly.

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    Luda5C4F
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    October 31, 2021

    yes this worked thank you!!!!!

     

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    Gabe5FB9
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    August 24, 2021

    Just tried your advice and it worked. Thank you! 

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    tracyc46066469
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    August 8, 2021

    the same exact thing happened to me and I read the solution but I don't see how you are getting to pictures. What do you click on to get to pictures because if I click OK in the error box LR completely disappears and if I click learn more it just populates another screen but I still can't click anything in LR . So what do I do I can't edit any photos . I have a MacBook Pro and when I open the LR app I see two people holding hands . 

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    default91ewun3meuhb
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    March 22, 2021

    Thank you so much for this!

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    selinam52903273
    Participant
    February 10, 2021

    I had many crashes recently with LRMclassic and decided to switch to LRM( cloud version ) ... than I got a message that the catalog is damaged .

    your solution changing the the name really helped.

     

    LRMclassic ... I uses it for many years but it's still not a stable platform... thinking know of switching to LRM( cloud)  or maybe use both simultaneously 

     

    THANKS... a big headache solved !!!

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    Teia5C96
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    December 30, 2020

    Where can I find pictures? I just see Mac photos and my lightroom app isnt working at all on my computer. My online library is working just fine. I found Managedcatalog.mcat and changed it to Managedcatalog.old but no help!

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