Corrupt catalog question

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Hello,

Had my first stumble with LR yesterday. Still LR 1.2

I have two catalogs. The second one is Family.lrcat. On opening it I got an error message that the catalog was corrupt and could not be backed up.

If I hit ok then I'm in LR. All the photos seem to be there, cataloged, metadataed, etc. I can search them, etc. i.e. to my eye the catalog seems fine. I can even do Apple-S and update the metadata of a file.

I went to the backup drive where LR had been doing the backups. I copied the Family.ircat file from a few days ago (when there wasn't an error) and then pasted that into the directory LR is using (after re-naming the lrcat file there).

When I open it it tells me that this lrcat file is corrupt and cannot be backed up. This seems odd, since it had no problems a few days ago. It too appears to work just fine.

I tried the same with a Family.lrcat file from a few weeks ago - same error.

My other catalog loads, backs up, works just fine.

Before I just deleted the Family.lrcat catalog and re-created it (all the actual files are, of course, safe and backed up redundantly elsewhere) I thought I'd see if folks here had other fixes I might try.

thanks,
 
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I'd back it up, and update to 1.3. There's some new catalog repair tools which may fix it up for you.
 
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Sure enough, that worked. Thanks for the tip - much less of a hassle than making the catalog again.

When I opened LR 1.3 a window came up telling me that the catalog was corrupt and that it was going to attempt to repair it. Repair worked fine.
 
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That's great to hear the new catalog corruption repair is working so well!
 
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corrupt catalog

Hey, I am brand new to Lightroom. Only just installed it and looking at the modules etc. Then had a blip in the power supply. I am now getting "corrupt catalog".
What does that mean and what do I do? Please.
 
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If you haven't imported any files into your catalog yet Pedro, I'd just go to File > New Catalog and then delete the old one.
 
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Pedro, Mac or Windows?

If a Mac, hold the Option key while Lightroom starts up. This will bring up a dialog where you can create a new catalog, test the integrity of the current catalog, etc.

I assume there's a way to do the same on Windows. Hold the Alt key, maybe? [Don says it's Control on Windows.]
 
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Control Key for Windows, Mark.

Don
 
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