Nortonian
Member
- Joined
- Jul 24, 2015
- Messages
- 44
- Location
- Worcestershire
- Lightroom Experience
- Intermediate
- Lightroom Version
- Classic
- Lightroom Version Number
- 6.14 Perpetual
- Operating System
- Windows 10
Between August and November 2017 I had many people on this forum trying to help me with a Lightroom Catalog problem – ( “Catalog is corrupt”; “Unfortunately it cannot be repaired”; catalog cannot be used or backed up until it is repaired”; etc, etc ). Discussions covered the pros and cons of external hard drives, because that was how I operated between my Desktop and Laptop, both on up-to-date Windows 10.
As a result, I had to walk away from Lightroom and the Creative Cloud. However, I purchased the final Perpetual version, 6.14.
I moved to ON1 Photo Raw, and didn’t look back at Lightroom. However, this summer, on random users (Mac & Windows), and on random folders on all these machines, On1 started to strip/delete the edit data from its sidecar files. On some occasions you could switch to a folder of previously edited photos and, in grid view. You could watch as one by one, the photos reverted to their out-of-camera state (RAW or Jpeg).
So I reverted to Lightroom 6.14 this week. I was pleasantly surprised by how slick and smooth everything seemed to work. It was great. I culled and edited several folders from 2014, problem free. I switched to my ‘main’ catalog, and although I feared it might say “Hang on, this was created in Lightroom 7.x”, there was no such message. I ran it several times this week, and backed up on every exit – even deleted a couple of backups as ‘surplus to requirements’. Last night, before exiting, I decided to optimise the catalog – it told me I hadn’t done that since 2017! Lightroom however ‘choked’ doing that optimise, and though I didn’t write down the warning dialog box. I tried Repairs when they were offered, but all to no avail. I unzipped my backup (which was only done about 2 hours previously), but that and others would only lead me to the ‘corrupt catalog’ and ‘cannot be repaired’ messages. Once it failed whilst “updating catalog file format”.
I trawled Victoria’s site, and that is where I came across a number of threads which I was very surprised to find were a result of my posts in 2017.
Sorry this is dragging on, but, does anyone know of an answer after 3 years of upgrades have passed: (by the way Catalog, and Backups are all now on an internal drive)
a) should this version 7.x catalog even load into 6.14 – obviously it did, for a week nearly – but if I renew my subscription, will version 9 also fail.
b) one poster in 2017, suggested certain contacts at Adobe may be able to repair the catalog – is that still an option.
Thank you if you got this far!
Ian
As a result, I had to walk away from Lightroom and the Creative Cloud. However, I purchased the final Perpetual version, 6.14.
I moved to ON1 Photo Raw, and didn’t look back at Lightroom. However, this summer, on random users (Mac & Windows), and on random folders on all these machines, On1 started to strip/delete the edit data from its sidecar files. On some occasions you could switch to a folder of previously edited photos and, in grid view. You could watch as one by one, the photos reverted to their out-of-camera state (RAW or Jpeg).
So I reverted to Lightroom 6.14 this week. I was pleasantly surprised by how slick and smooth everything seemed to work. It was great. I culled and edited several folders from 2014, problem free. I switched to my ‘main’ catalog, and although I feared it might say “Hang on, this was created in Lightroom 7.x”, there was no such message. I ran it several times this week, and backed up on every exit – even deleted a couple of backups as ‘surplus to requirements’. Last night, before exiting, I decided to optimise the catalog – it told me I hadn’t done that since 2017! Lightroom however ‘choked’ doing that optimise, and though I didn’t write down the warning dialog box. I tried Repairs when they were offered, but all to no avail. I unzipped my backup (which was only done about 2 hours previously), but that and others would only lead me to the ‘corrupt catalog’ and ‘cannot be repaired’ messages. Once it failed whilst “updating catalog file format”.
I trawled Victoria’s site, and that is where I came across a number of threads which I was very surprised to find were a result of my posts in 2017.
Sorry this is dragging on, but, does anyone know of an answer after 3 years of upgrades have passed: (by the way Catalog, and Backups are all now on an internal drive)
a) should this version 7.x catalog even load into 6.14 – obviously it did, for a week nearly – but if I renew my subscription, will version 9 also fail.
b) one poster in 2017, suggested certain contacts at Adobe may be able to repair the catalog – is that still an option.
Thank you if you got this far!
Ian
