Help, my lightroom cannot find my catalog at startup

Where can I find my catalog? This program works perfectly for 6 months. So that's what happened when I tried to re - open LIGHTROOM on my IMAC OSX 10.9.5 5.7... now I can't go through a screen that says "Adobe Photoshop Lightroom - select a catalog...". and there is a list that says "select a recent catalog to open...". BUT there is no listed catalogue click. WHERE is my 17 000 photo book? (everything was working fine until I added another FOLDER called ARchive and is my external storage drive...) How to use this form?

Thanks a lot for your suggestions.

LouAnn

PS I'd also renamed the PICTURES to THE PICTURES folder, don't you think not that LIghtroom cannot find it now? I looked for the .lrcat extensions and found a series of backups, so how can I get the LIghtroom program to find the catalog?

Post edited by: LOUANN BRIZENDINE

Of course, this is why Lightroom cannot find the catalog. But if you go to the folder all IMAGES should have a Lightroom folder. And inside this folder, you will find your catalog. It has the .lrcat extension. There are other files in this folder as well as Lightroom depends on. And since you renamed your pictures folder Lightroom cannot find these either. In any case, double-click the catalog file in the new location and everything should be good.

Programs are designed to run on the dependencies in different folders. It's really not a good idea to rename you arbitrarily a folder. In fact, I would really say that you change the name of this folder to what it was originally, and let it. It's a standard folder that other programs might be addicted as well.

And just to clarify, I would like to rename your PHOTOS ALL at what it was originally before you start looking for the catalogue and double click on it as I suggested. This folder of photos could almost supposed to constitute a system folder, in my opinion. It's that I don't think needs to be renamed.

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