Preview Cache error close LR?
Recently, I get a message "LR has encountered an error when reading of the ots preview cache and must be closed".
It is a regular occurrence (> 6 times today), is there a solution?
Peter R Hawkes
Peter,
I would rename the previews folder (this is the file with the extension *.lrdata sitting right next to your catalog, see here for the default location of the catalog) to something like *. lrdata.old. then start LR and choose 'Make Standard size previews' in the library-> menu previews for all images.
This will rebuild the file previews and your problem should be saved. If this is the case, you can remove old, renamed previews file (*. lrdata.old).
Beat
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