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• 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

• 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.

• 5 Lightroom cannot open the catalog

  suddenly, Lightroom said at the launch: "Der Lightroom-Katalog"Fotos' non open werden kann, da er von einer other application open. wurde already. " "Cannot open Lightroom Catalog"Fotos"because it is used by another program" no other application is running. What can I do?

  I use a HDD extern, where my catalog and the files are stored. Reboot, remove the hard drives, nothing works

  Navigate to the folder that contains your catalog file, delete a file whose name ends with .lock

  Don't delete other files

• 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

• 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 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

• 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.

• 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.

• "" 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

• 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.

• Cannot open the lightroom catalog called "Lightroom Catalog" because it's too new to be used by this version of Lightroom.  You want to select a different catalog?  This is the message when I first click on LR and I have no idea what do to m

  Cannot open the lightroom catalog called "Lightroom Catalog" because it's too new to be used by this version of Lightroom.  You want to select a different catalog?  This is the message when I first click on LR and I have no idea

  Hi steves

  This means that you try to open a catalog from Lightroom CC/6 in an earlier version of Lightroom

  What version of Lightroom you have installed?

  Concerning

  Assani

• Cannot open the Lightroom catalog on external drive

  Please excuse the screen name. I tried so much to during registration, but they were all taken while I was sure that it would be available.

  I'm moving from a PC to a Mac laptop.

  I copied my drive whole photo on an external drive, which is what I use with my laptop. My catalogue and photos are stored on this external hard drive and when I try to open the catalog, I get the following error:

  Lightroom does not start with this catalogue. It is on a network volume or a volume on which Lightroom is unable to save the changes. But I have no problem opening an image in Photoshop so I know not the files being copied in a readable format.

  Ideas?

  Hi somedaymetalkpretty

  I suspect that your external drive is formatted with the NTFS file system, which is normal for Windows, but impossible to write in Mac. You will need to use an external hard drive formatted to FAT32 if you want to use in Windows and Mac.

  Beat

  PS: I guess that your catalog (.lrcat file) does not exceed 4GB, otherwise you would have a problem with FAT32.

  Post edited by: b_gossweiler: added for FAT32 file size limit