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• Cannot open the catalog on CD

  I need to export a catalog for a college assignment and burn it to CD. The export had a slight hiccup with conflicts in the metadata to dng files 2, but I just ran over the data. The main problem is when I burned the files on a CD and tried to open the catalog on CD, I get the following error:

  "lightroom cannot open the catalog named"..." "" located on the DVD RW drive (e) volume because Lightroom can't save the changes to this place.

  What I am doing wrong? I use LR3.4 and under Win Vista on my laptop at home. Is this a problem with my pc? Can I use the Mac to College instead? I need to know as soon as the transfer is due May 11, 2012 (on Friday).  Thanks for any input.

  A catalog cannot exist on a CD and be used as a catalog must be writable and are not CD. You can copy the catalog from the CD to the computer, that you have the CD to use however.

  The best option is to use a flash drive (USB key) for that well that rather than a CD.

• I just upgraded to window 7 for windows does not start Lightroom 10 6 because it cannot open the catalog or one of my backups

  I just upgraded to window 7 for windows 10. 6 Lightroom does not start because it cannot open the catalog or one of my backups

  Yes, once the user account is the upgrade to windows 10 have permission on the folder of photo issue, which prevents the Lightroom to create the necessary temp file when the catalog is launched.

  This is the reason why I asked to copy the catalog file to another location to narrow down the reason for the problem.

  Thank you

• 5.7 Lightroom on Windows 7 64 bit home says that it cannot open the catalog because it is not writable or is in use, but it is writable and is not in use.

  I just reinstalled and all my Lightroom stuff is in a single folder. So I simply pointed out Lightroom in the folder once it has been reinstalled, but I get this message saying 'Lightroom cannot use the catalog because it is not writable or in-use'.
  Any ideas what is wrong?

  Trying to find a file whose name ends with .lock in the same folder as your catalog file. If there is such a file, remove it. Do not remove anything else.

• Cannot open the catalog

  I am unable to use Organizer in elements or Prime Minister. An error in says: "cannot open the catalog. An internal program error has occurred. »

  I tried to reinstall and update but the problem persists. I use the Version 12 on Windows 8.1.

  I found similar issues in the community, but they all seem to be unanswered. Help to solve this problem would be highly appreciated.

  Thank you.

  Colin

  Hello again

  By trail and error, I found a solution to 99%.

  Right-click on the desktop, the icon of elements.

  Select Troubleshoot Compatibility.

  Select troubleshoot program

  Select a problem (I used the other)

  Select the Version of Windows (Windows 8 for me)

  Select the Test program

  If it works, which he did in my case, save the settings.

  This seems to have solved my problem, except that I now get an extra screen at the opening of the elements to allow the program to make changes to my computer. I can live with that.

  When I get time I will check if there is any Adobe or updates to Windows that will make this unnecessary step.

  I hope this helps other people with the same problem.

  Thanks for responding and making suggestions.

  Colin

• Used the external drive for catalog/photos for months. Yesterday-> error msg: "LR cannot open the catalog"StanLRCatalogRepaired"on"Seagate Drive - LR Photos"because LR cannot save changes to this place. LR catalogs cannot be opened on removable disks,

  Used the external drive for catalog/photos for months. Yesterday-> error msg: "Lightroom can't open the catalog named"StanLRCatalogRepaired"located on the 'Seagate Drive - LR Photos' volume because Lightroom can't save the changes to this place. Lightroom catalogs not opening on the network volumes, removable storage, or read only volumes. »

  The first thing to do is to check if somehow the permissions for the drive Seagate or any of its relevant folders/subfolders has changed somehow (an OS update maybe?)

• I went to open Lr and it says cannot open the catalog because it is used by another application

  I try to open the catalog, and States that my catalog is used in another application, but there is no application running that uses this catalog

  Hi DigitalNorthernExposures,

  Please go to the photo folder > folder Lightroom > and then search for it. Lock file

  Delete the. Lock the file and open the Lightroom.

  Let us know if that helps.

  Kind regards

  ~ Mohit

• Lightroom cannot use the catalog because it is not writable and cannot be opened

  My catalog is on an external hard drive and I lost the connection, resulting in an error message "Lightroom can't use the catalog because it is not writable and cannot be opened" to come.

  There was no lock file to delete, and I deleted the log file. All write permissions have been verified on the hard disk, catalog and subfolders and I leave and I always get this error message.

  How can I get rid of this message and gain access to my catalog again?

  I'm on windows and not Mac. Thank you for your time, but I have already contacted Adobe via a chat service and the catalog has been corrupted. They fixed. Thanks again for your time.

• "" When I run Lightroom, I get the message: "cannot open the catalog because it is already open in another application.

  who can help me to solve this problem. Now, I can only open a different catalog. But not this one. And it's the main catalog.

  So I'm a bit desperate.

  huh

  Hello

  What version of Lightroom do you use?

  With Lr closed go to the location where your Lightroom Catalog (by default it is pictures/Lightroom)

  Delete the. Lock file with the same name as your catalog. For example, in the image below, it is Lightroom4 catalog.lrat.lock

  

  In your case, it will be Lightroomcatalog.lrcat.lock.Delete it

  Restart Lightroom.

  Let us know if this helps

  ~ Assani

• Cannot open the catalog as it is "invalid".

  Tried to open my catalog which I used without problem, and today I get the below error message. There is no file locking. I tried to update my software, I also tried to create an another catalog and import the catalog, nothing helps. It appears that in the catalog, there are zero file size. Help, please!

  If the file size is zero, it is not a valid catalog, and there is nothing to open.

  You must restore the backup catalog file.

• Cannot open the catalog at LR3.6

  Hi guys, I just installed LR version 3.6 test yesterday and he eventually failling to download the catalogue previous LR that I install in the past and is crushed.

  Join here is the error image.

  

  I try to uninstall + reinstall but same problem. The worst part it I deleted the lightroom catalog permanently in my folder of photos and the catalog of the img that settle in the images.

  hope you guys can help me to solve the problems. TQ!

  http://forums.Adobe.com/message/3671450#3671450

  See post #9 and following

  HAL

• Box of Lightroom States cannot open the catalog due to an unexpected error.

  I use a Macbook and get this message when you try to open Lightroom.  What can I do to fix this problem?

  Update the recent update.

  It is more than likely a permissions of folder/drive issue. Check the permissions to read & write on Lightroom folders, under your user name or in the Applications folder.

• LR6 cannot open the catalog, said it is used by another program

  Hello

  I'm on PC, Win7, LR6.

  No other program is open I see. It just happened one day. I had problems with a dialog prompt asking me to pass.

  And why is it impossible to get in touch with people from Adobe support? :-(

  

  Anyone know what to do?

  See you soon,.

  Esbjörn

  Navigate to the folder that contains your Lightroom catalog file. Looking for a file whose name ends in. LOCK. Remove this item. LOCK file. Do not remove anything else.

• Lightroom - cannot open the Photos in Camera Raw

  Hi all -

  I need help with Lightroom and running with bridge in my feed working... At work, I use Lightroom for most of my post-production work, but my boss likes to see pictures and make his choice with the help of Adobe Bridge. She also likes to open photos in Adobe Camera Raw, bridge, in preview mode, but for some reason, the option for this has recently dimmed. Any idea what can cause this problem? We use a Mac, with LR 5 and CS6. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!

  The news of Elijah-d are correct. Lightroom is a complete standalone application and saves work in its catalog file, so even if you work with Lightroom by default , his reads and writes from the file catalog.

  Bridge / Camera Raw in contrast will be reading and writing in the .xmp sidecar files you will need to use the option in Lightroom to also write the info .xmp.

  Also, there are some things that Lightroom does not write to .xmp who likes a specific to Lightroom, collections, virtual copies, history etc.

  See more info at the link below.

  What is not included in the Lightroom XMP files | Lightroom fanatic

• Updated to 2.6 help cannot open the catalog

  I can't open my master catalog after upgrade of LR 2.6 yesterday.  I did the upgrade and was using the

  new program just dandy however after a computer restart I couldn't LR to boot at all.  When I went in the record folder and clicked on my most recent save I get nothing.  When I try an other old file that I receive is not writable and cannot be opened. When I return to a really simple file I can get the open LR but then it won't go to a most recent catalog.  I'm the kind of panicing here.

  Windows 7 32 bit

  LR 2.6

  See you soon

  Brendan

  lrcat. Lock

  The first file to indicate that the LR (lrcat) catalog is locked, which means being used by an instance of execution of LR and therefore cannot be changed by another instance of LR, until the first unlocks it for use by others.

  lrcat. Journal

  This is the log file of the catalogue. A log file is kind of what you think of the history - all the changes that have occurred since the last time that these changes have been written in the catalogue.

  It is a little bare on technical details, but should give you the idea.

  A lot of programs that use a database works this way.