- Lightroom Version Number
- Lightroom Classic 7.4
- Operating System
- Windows 10
Hello!
I have a corrupt Lightroom catalog. Over 20k images on this! Please I hope someone can help me. I followed Holger's video on youtube
(How To Fix A Corrupted Lightroom catalog file using SQLite).
The command prompt showed MANY errors and I still cannot open the file. I sent the file to Holger hoping he could help me. He did try to help and this was his response:
I tried some thing on your file, but only got so far that the file opened in Lightroom, but it didn’t show any images. Looking at the sql file, there is a lot of information about edits, but it has major problems with two local IDs. So I think the develop,emt information is there, it just doesn’t find anything about the images.
There is nothing I can do at this point, but you might visit Victoria Brampton’s Lightroom forums. She is in contact with at least one Lightroom engineer. Maybe they can help.
Here is a little more info:
This is pretty much my last resort. I spent time working with Dan Hartford on fixing my lightroom files as it was a disaster. Then I spent SEVERAL days, nights and hours merging my catalog/images all into one nice catalog and moving thousands of images onto one drive. I was at over 20K images from the past few years. Well, a few days ago disaster struck and my catalog is now corrupt. Unfortunately I do not have a backup.
I don't even know how it happened, but I was too tired and somehow dragged a .LOCK file and a .WAL file from an older version of this catalog on another drive into the folder of my now Master catalog. At the point everything froze and I could not delete those .lock and .wal files. When I try to open my catalog, Lightroom would say Assertion failed.
I restarted the computer, and was able to delete those.lock and .wal files, but I I still got an error that says Assertion failed. So, I updated my lightroom Classic from 7.4 version to now 9.2 version. Other catalogs upgrade and open fine, but my master catalog won't upgrade or open. It says it is damaged. I tried to rollback my Lightroom but the oldest version I found was 8.2.1 so I downloaded that one. I get assertion failed with this version as well. I really hope someone can help me. Thank you!!!
I have a corrupt Lightroom catalog. Over 20k images on this! Please I hope someone can help me. I followed Holger's video on youtube
(How To Fix A Corrupted Lightroom catalog file using SQLite).
The command prompt showed MANY errors and I still cannot open the file. I sent the file to Holger hoping he could help me. He did try to help and this was his response:
I tried some thing on your file, but only got so far that the file opened in Lightroom, but it didn’t show any images. Looking at the sql file, there is a lot of information about edits, but it has major problems with two local IDs. So I think the develop,emt information is there, it just doesn’t find anything about the images.
There is nothing I can do at this point, but you might visit Victoria Brampton’s Lightroom forums. She is in contact with at least one Lightroom engineer. Maybe they can help.
Here is a little more info:
This is pretty much my last resort. I spent time working with Dan Hartford on fixing my lightroom files as it was a disaster. Then I spent SEVERAL days, nights and hours merging my catalog/images all into one nice catalog and moving thousands of images onto one drive. I was at over 20K images from the past few years. Well, a few days ago disaster struck and my catalog is now corrupt. Unfortunately I do not have a backup.
I don't even know how it happened, but I was too tired and somehow dragged a .LOCK file and a .WAL file from an older version of this catalog on another drive into the folder of my now Master catalog. At the point everything froze and I could not delete those .lock and .wal files. When I try to open my catalog, Lightroom would say Assertion failed.
I restarted the computer, and was able to delete those.lock and .wal files, but I I still got an error that says Assertion failed. So, I updated my lightroom Classic from 7.4 version to now 9.2 version. Other catalogs upgrade and open fine, but my master catalog won't upgrade or open. It says it is damaged. I tried to rollback my Lightroom but the oldest version I found was 8.2.1 so I downloaded that one. I get assertion failed with this version as well. I really hope someone can help me. Thank you!!!