Problem opening CC/6 Lightroom Catalog backup.

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  Schliesse LR. Offne das verzeichnis der welchem Katalog ist. Darin sich ein .lock file is mit dem idetischen Namen wie der Katalog exakt. Losch sharps lock file und starte LR Rubis.

• the uncompressed with 6 Lightroom Catalog backup

  It is said that Lightroom 6 compress the backup of the catalog in a zip file.

  When I try with a small test catalog it works very well.

  However when I backup my real catalog (75 000 photos, 7.5 GB) the file is not compressed. LR6 behaves exactly like the LR5.

  I tried several times but it's always the same.

  Do you have anyone encountered the same problem?

  Any advice?

  Thank you.

  Michel (Paris)

  Jao,

  Unlike the previous version, Lr6 creates a compressed zip file when the backup is performed.

  

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  It is not possible to access a catalog on a network. The catalog must reside on a hard drive that is local to the computer running Lightroom. The best way to handle this is to use the catalog on the laptop while you travel. Then choose the images that you want to copy to the other computer and export them in a catalogue, including images. These images and the catalog could be placed on an external hard drive which could then be connected to the main computer at home. Then, you will be able to import into this catalogue.

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  This seems to be a problem with this catalogue.

  Launch of Lightroom with the command button and choose the option to create a new catalog

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• Urgent help repair 6 Lightroom Catalog "Lightroom encountered problems reading or writing to the disk when you try to repair the catalog»

  My Lightroom Catalog worked perfectly until 2 days ago.

  When I try to open my catalog this error message pop up

  

  And when I try to repair my catalog a green bar progress displays briefly, then this pop up.

  

  I clicked on 'Retry' several times but it still does not work. My catalog is on an external hard drive with 1.46 TB of free space. I use Lightroom 6 on a laptop with Windows 8.

  I tried other things:

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  Help, please! I have not all backups with that I can restore my catalog. I am a student in photography and it would be extremely annoying that I lost all my edits/flags of this catalogue.

  margaretp4683231 wrote:

  You never solved this problem?

  I am totally confused and aren't sure what to do next.

  You need a new external drive, and you need to STOP using your old.

  There is no real repair a hard drive once it starts to miss. Of course you can repair the file structure, but it's to get the file there. Once a drive starts to go wrong it will never get better or even remain the same.

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  Update 20150707:

  So I think I found the reason for the problem:

  About 60% of my files in my catalog of PES 11 are converted (or probably better: "sent") to Lightroom with a double slash "/ /" in the path of the file.

  This looks like: D:/photos/ /Keep, albums, 2002, 200212 < the rest of the way is OK >...

  Lightroom complains that it cannot find the file on the disk, probably because of the double slash.

  With more than 4,000 theses error Lightroom core dumps with a buffer overflow, probably due to the large number of error messages. Cup of the catalogue of PES 11 decline little by little I managed to identify the cause.

  The problem is that my PES 11 catalog is repaired, optimized and PES 11 think that the file is in the correct location and can open and edit it.

  So what do I do to make the two programs to understand each other with their file name conventions? ... or how to get rid of the second crime "/"?

  Thank you

  Thomas

  ---

  Good afternoon

  I'm trying to upgrade a PES 10 catalog Lightroom (Lightroom details below) CC - both on Windows 8.1 (details below as well)

  There are about 30,000 photos in the catalogue of PES 10. Import runs for awhile then LR CC shows a short message that it could not import all of the photos and then it is intercepted by a Windows operating system message that indicates «Lightroom has stopped working...» »

  He has imported about 3,500 photos and converted all the photos of Collections, but also in the tree of the key.

  I tried the following:

  (in PES 11)

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  • removed all files types that LR does not support
  • removed all media offline

  (in LR cc)

  • Tried running in different compatibility modes
  • Tried running in administrator mode
  • Temporarily disabled any antivirus software

  I run LR CC successfully with a new catalog and it behaved very well through all operations. TI ROM dumps on the conversion of this catalogue. Importing photos from the catalogue above works fine hierarchy; just that it loses the key word and obviously knows no collections.

  Is there any log file indicating the element involved the conversion?

  I have to say that I love LR after a period of three weeks of the trial, but I'm not really ready to let go hold on 90% of my data meta at this stage.

  Best

  Thomas

  System Info for LR and PSE

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  Version of Lightroom: CC 2015.0.1 [1018573]

  License: Trial

  Operating system: Windows 8.1 Business Edition

  Version: 6.3 [9600]

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  Real memory used by Lightroom: 364.6 MB (2.2%)

  Virtual memory used by Lightroom: 314,3 MB

  Memory cache size: 185.7 MB

  Maximum thread count used by Camera Raw: 4

  Camera Raw SIMD optimization: SSE2, AVX, AVX2

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  The application folder: C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Lightroom

  Library path: C:\Users\behreth\Pictures\Lightroom\Lightroom Catalog.lrcat

  Settings folder: C:\Users\behreth\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Lightroom

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  10.0.0.0 elements Organizer

  Basic version: 10.0 (20110914.m.17521)

  Language version: 10.0 (20110914.m.17521)

  Current catalog:

  Catalog name: fitt_master_backup

  Catalog location: C:\data\pse11_catalog\fitt_master_backup\

  Size of the catalog: 135, 8 MB

  Catalog Cache size: 1, 1 GB

  System:

  Name of the operating system: 2000

  Operating system Version: 6.2

  System architecture: Intel CPU Family: 6, model: 12 Stepping: 3 with MMX, SSE whole, SSE FP

  Built-in memory: 15, 8GB

  Free memory: 4, 9 GB

  I found the reason, but there is no solution...

  Comments:

  The double slash ' \ ' in the path appears to be introduced with the upgrade to PSE10. I can't say how it happened, but there were about 27,000 files connected by an access path "D:\pictures\\album\portrait\image_1.jpg".

  Fortunately, I worked with this database, as in fact all files could be catalogued, modified, opened with the editor. I checked from time to time for "Missing files" and none has been identified. After I discovered the problem during the conversion of catalogue Lr, I checked the display "File Location" and none of the files with the double slash are recognized as part of the catalog. I could import into the catalog of the "location of the folder" producing duplicates:

  'D:\pictures\\album\portrait\image_1.jpg '.

  'D:\pictures\album\portrait\image_1.jpg '.

  live happily next to each other.

  I could "move" the wrong file in the thumbnail view in its original, which corrects the incorrect path. But as my collection is well distributed on a large directory structure and there is no way to sort way "thumbnail" it would be a never-ending task.

  Here are the steps I took to fix the problem. It was not as simple as it sounds by

  now and took a lot of trial and error for weeks.

  1. I made a backup of the catalog PSE10 ("File-> backup catalog..") hard disk
  2. I have 'removed' photos from their original location, so that they could not be found (as I had a distinct data reader, I just removed the drive letter in the Windows Disk Management Console)
  3. I restored the backup PSE10 ("File-> Restore Catalog... "), choose 'new place' and placed in the root of a different drive. If you do not have a spare laptop drive, you can use the "subst q: ; I had hoped to keep the structure of the root, it is easier for the PSE10 to reconnect files later, but I can't confirm that it makes a difference.
  4. After restoring PSE10 complained (thankfully!) could not find any files (27,000) with double '-', so, unlike the situation at the beginning, I could now chose "file-> reconnect-> all missing files. He tried to find the files, but he could not find them in the area returned after searching for 5 minutes for the first file. Then I reconnected a file manually and restarted the process and after 1 h PSE10 had reconnected all files without any problems, and the images appeared as well in the 'file location' display.
  5. As I wanted my files in their original location, I "return" the files in their original location by moving them in the 'File location' view, which took another 3 hours.
  6. As I was not very confident with the whole process ensuring all files have actually been part of this process, I closed 10 PSE and "reinstalled" my original tree together file pictures of the "retired" location (step 2) after you delete the files moved PSE10.
  7. I grew up PSE10 and checked for missing files, everything was still connected.
  8. Finally I re-imported the tree of the original files 'reinstalled' together again to see if something is missed, but all files have been correctly identified as duplicates. The final step was to validate "File Location" view, where are the files appears in the tree structure tight.

  Then, I did what I wanted finally to update the catalogue of PSE10 to LR6 and it worked without any problems take images and metadata across.

  Fact.

  A plea to Adobe...

  I think it would be a great idea to publish catalogues different proprietary formats (PES / LR). This

  cannot be that difficult because you must have appropriate documentation. In this case the problem could be

  solved with double '-' setting programmatically. If you think that your customers entrust their digital

  assets on your cloud, some "opening" your end would be just one...

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  Please excuse the screen name. I tried so much to during registration, but they were all taken while I was sure that it would be available.

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  Hi somedaymetalkpretty

  I suspect that your external drive is formatted with the NTFS file system, which is normal for Windows, but impossible to write in Mac. You will need to use an external hard drive formatted to FAT32 if you want to use in Windows and Mac.

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  Jenny

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