Hello. I'm unable to open Lightroom 3 on my iMac.

I just got back from vacation to find that my Lightroom3 won't open. As a photographer with a newborn shoot organized this week. It is causing me a lot of stress.

I noticed that the icon has changed the LR normal one on my Doc station. I still have the normal LR icon as a shortcut on my screen, but does not open LR from any one of them. I tried the alt key as suggested in the forums. But nothing opens. You can see the new weird icon in the screenshot I took.

On 08/09/14, I have installed a new Time Machine backup external hard drive. I noticed that the last backup of Lightroom was just before I went on vacation the next day on the Time Machine was set up.

I'd appreciate any help, as I am not computer minded and have no idea where start rectifying the problem.

Thank you

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Hey Moo - min,

If you've used time machine to back up your data and applications Lightroom will not work correctly.

I would like to advice you uninstall and reinstall Lightroom and then check.

Thank you

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