Lightroom has encountered an error when reading the preview cache
What can I do to fix this? I bought my lightroom if it matters.
Hi Gary
Greetings!
You must remove the preview for your Lightroom Catalog Cache.
It is located in the same folder as the catalog in Lightroom. The name of the cache an extract ends with Previews.LRDATA and should be deleted. Not to be confused with *. LRCAT, which should not be deleted. Here is a picture of what it is named as default LightroomcatalogPreviews.Lrdata.
Location /Pictures/Lightroom on Mac and my Pictures\Lightroom on Windows Pictures/Lightroom on MAC
Delete this folder and restart Lightroom
Let us know if this helps
~ Assani
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