• Welcome to the Lightroom Queen Forums! We're a friendly bunch, so please feel free to register and join in the conversation. If you're not familiar with forums, you'll find step by step instructions on how to post your first thread under Help at the bottom of the page. You're also welcome to download our free Lightroom Quick Start eBooks and explore our other FAQ resources.
  • Stop struggling with Lightroom! There's no need to spend hours hunting for the answers to your Lightroom Classic questions. All the information you need is in Adobe Lightroom Classic - The Missing FAQ!

    To help you get started, there's a series of easy tutorials to guide you through a simple workflow. As you grow in confidence, the book switches to a conversational FAQ format, so you can quickly find answers to advanced questions. And better still, the eBooks are updated for every release, so it's always up to date.

Catalog cannot be found

Status
Not open for further replies.
D

darylb-mweb

New Member
Joined
Apr 4, 2019
Messages
4
Lightroom Version Number
Lightroom Classic version 9.2
Operating System
  1. macOS 10.14 Mojave
The external hard drive with my catalog and backups accidentally became disconnected from my iMac. When I logged on to L/R Classic after reconnection, I received the message "Catalog cannot be found do you want to use the default catalog or choose a new one" The drop down list which I think is the default one (but not sure) contains only one catalog which is very old so I ignored that and opted to "choose a new one". When I select the correct catalog on the external hard drive it is greyed out and can't be connected. I would welcome any suggestions to correct this as I have photos to upload and process from a shoot yesterday.
 
Sort by date Sort by votes
If you know where the current catalog is, but Lightroom refuses to recognize and/or open it, then most likely it was damaged by the disconnection. Did you make regular catalog backups?
 
Upvote 0 Downvote
Lightroom Zips the backups. Make sure that you unzip them before you try to open them.
 
Upvote 0 Downvote
Status
Not open for further replies.
Back
Top