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Lightroom 2.6 Hangs Upon Startup.

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joshua

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Hi old friends... My LR 2.6 install, which was working perfectly until about a hour ago now, well, isn't.

When I launch Lightroom (OS X 1'.6 LR 2.6 MBPro ''9) it just sits on the welcome screen and hangs there. I held down the option key to allow the check integrity of data file and that's been running for almost 1' minutes now...

Any suggestions? I believe I have a backup from TimeMachine last night.

(ps: it's stuck on the thumbnails-cache.db section)

Thanks.
 
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joshua

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more updates... even launching lightroom with a new catalog causes a hang...

very odd... thoughts? ideas? prayers?
 
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I'm having some weird issues (with a PC) at start up too. VERY slow, seems to get stuck, but eventually muddles through.
 
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Joshua, do you get far enough to be able to optimize the catalog?
 
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finally after restarting my mac it was ok. very odd. catalog seems fine now.

how do I force an optimization of the catalog?

thanks.
 
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Depends on the Lr version. In 2.x Edit > Catalog Settings.... > General tab > bottom panel Optimize. In Lr 3beta, it's an option on the main File menu pull down, 4th item.
 
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