Cannot open the Lightroom catalog on external drive

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• 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

• error. Cannot open the Lightroom Catalog

  Hello, I receive the error message: "the called Lightroom Catalog catalog Lightroom 5 cannot open another application already has its opening" at the opening of Lightroom. There is no other application don't use it. There is one file available, not back to the top I was download a catalog of 5.3 TB over the past 4 days and has not stopped. RAW files are sitting on a separate hard drive to the laptop where the Lightroom Catalog is. I can't access this catalog now. I had a crash before it happens... someone can help here?

  You must go to the folder where your catalog and look for a file with .lock extension. This file must be deleted, and then you can again use your catalog. Sometimes, if Lightroom closes abnormally, the lock file is not removed. And that's what causes this error message.

• Cannot open the Lightroom Catalog

  Hi.

  I get a message on the screen in windows when I try to go on lightroom that says "lightroom catalog could not be opened because it has been opened by another application already and I don't know where it may be or even where to look? can you help me please

  Jenny

  Go in the same folder as your Lightroom catalog file.

  In this folder is a file whose name ends in. LOCK (probably all lowercase). Delete this one. LOCK file. Do not remove anything else.

• Cannot open the Lightroom Catalog because another application already is open.

  I hard a message that another application has the open catalog, but I have no idea what's open. Any ideas on how to understand what program it was open?

  When Lightroom has an open catalog it creates a temporary file next to the catalog file, which has the same name with an extension .lock. By default, the files are located as shown in the attached screenshot.

  If Lightroom is not normally closed the .lock file will remain in place and prevent Lightroom opening of the catalog said.

  With Lightroom closed go to the subfolder of Lightroom, and if there is a file with the name of .lock extension remove the file, and then try and open Lightroom.

  

• Cannot open the Lightroom Catalog because he is "busy in another program" - what can I do?

  I tried to restart my computer (three times...) and reinstall the program - no use.

  I have no idea what program uses the catalog or anything that doesn't go there.

  Help, please!

  Try looking in your catalog file to see if there is a file with .lock extension. It should have the same name as your catalog file if we're here. If you find such a file, you must remove it. Once you do that Lightroom should start normally.

• My Lightroom does not. It is showing the message - failed to open the Lightroom catalog called Catalog Lightroom because it is too new to be used by this version of Lightroom. You want to select a different catalog?

  My Lightroom does not. It is showing the message - failed to open the Lightroom catalog called Catalog Lightroom because it is too new to be used by this version of Lightroom. You want to select a different catalog?

  It is a catalog that you created on your computer, or coming from another computer?

  If it is one that has been created on your computer, you can search your computer to see if you have two different versions of Lightroom installed. If so, then you want to open the new version of Lightroom by double-clicking its icon, and then you should be able to open the catalog.

• Cannot open the Lightroom program

  When I try to open 5 Lightroom my computer tells me that it's already open in another application. I don't know where it is. any ideas?

  I couldn't find exactly the Lightroom Catalog icons that you showed in the message above... I had already gone to pictures/Lightroom and clicked on remove previously so he showed no file... I clicked on Delete again and that removed Lightroom in the catalog of photos... and I am now able to open my lightroom program... I have all my pictures import again... but it's ok... I am so relieved to be able to open the program. You know how it happened? Thank you very much.

• Cannot open the Lightroom

  I got lightroom for a year, but for a few months now lightroom just will not open. I click on the app and it comes up with a box saying "Lightroom catalog named"Lightroom Catalog"cannot open another application has opened" and gives me the option to choose a different catalog, to continue or exit, but if I try to choose another catalogue none of my catalogs are here. Does anyone have an Adviser on how to solve this problem? I already tried to uninstall lightroom and enter the taskmanager to shut what is open and they do not work.

  Charlotteb salvation,

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

  Remove the . Lock file with the same name as your catalog. For example, in the image below, it is Lightroomcatalog.lrcat.lock

  • Rename or delete the Lightroomcatalog.lrcat.lock file.

  

  • Restart Lightroom

  Let us know if that helps.

  Kind regards

  Assani

• Photos will not open the iPhoto on an external drive, already "migrated" library

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• 'Open the connection' VM on external drive does not always open when connecting

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  I have a guest to Solaris that resides on an external drive.  I want to make sure this guest operating system starts when I connect the MacBook Pro.

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• Still trying to open the Lightroom Catalog and stops

  I tried to import a picture from a file on my computer. The Lightroom 3.6 program stops.  When I try to open the program, a message appears that says "Lightroom - opening catalog: DSC_2155.lrcat.

  Immediately after that that appears on my screen, that a box appears that says "Adobe Photoshop has stopped working" below to bed "a problem caused blocking the program works correctly.  Windows will close the program and notify you if a solution is available. »

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• SL500 - cannot open the ACPI ATK0100 Kernel Mode driver

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• Cannot open the 5.3 Lightroom Catalog. Download «...» It is not writable and cannot be opened"message.

  Hello world

  I'm having a problem opening a lightroom catalog. I get a message "Lightroom can't use the catalog because it is not writable and cannot be opened.

  The catalogue and thousands of RAW files are stored on an external drive.

  Here are the steps that caused the problem in my view:

  1 has worked with the catalog on my laptop. Disconnected the disk without closing first Lightroom (big mistake).

  2 connect the external hard drive on desktop PC and did extra work. Closed Ligtroom (office) and disconnected the disk.

  3 reconnect the drive of the laptop while original catalogue is always open (see #1 above). Clicked on an image at which point Lightroom crashed and closed by itself.

  The problem now is that the catalog opens is no longer on computers. Any attempt to open the results in the message "Lightroom can't use the catalog because it is not writable and cannot be opened. There is no lock or log file that can be deleted, just the lrcat file and tons of files with preview of the data.

  I hope this isn't a lost cause and I can still recover the catalog. There are 2 work days.

  Thanks in advance for any help/advice!

  Ok. I found a solution. As Ligthroom catalog is a SQLite database, you can use a database tool to fix it. Just download SQLite www.sqlite.org for your OS (Windows 7 in my case) and unzip into C:\SQLite for ease of use. Copy your catalog corrupted the C:\SQLite file as well as to keep things simple.

  At the command prompt start > run, type 'cmd' and press ENTER. This opens the command prompt where you will need to run the following commands:

  1 cd sqlite

  2. echo .dump | SQLite3 yourcatalogfilename.lrcat > tempcatalog.sql

  3 sqlite3 - init tempcatalog.sql newcatalogfilename.lrcat

  After the execution of line 3, you may or may not see error messages. No worries, it simply truncated faulty records that is what causes the catalog to crash.

  Now, copy the newcatalogfilename.lrcat into your lightroom catalog file and run it. You should be able to get things up and running to where you left, or to the point where original Lightroom Catalog has been corrupted in first place.

  I hope this helps. It took me a few hours to find a solution, but it saved me at least 2 days of work. Original credit goes to the author of the article according to http://www.simplyness.com/more-photography-tips/recover-corrupted-unrepairable-lightroom-3 - catalog - with - sqlite.html. It seemed to have worked for Lightroom 3 and still worked for Lightroom 5.3 in my case.