- Lightroom Version Number
- Lightroom Classic version 10
- Operating System
- Windows 10
I have just updated to LR Classic 10 and have had some catalog problems.
I have been editing a lot of photos from a 3 month trip last year and have all of the photos as well as the LR catalogs on a 2.5" external USB drive. I imported them each day while on the trip and started editing on my notebook PC and when at home I plug the external drive into my desktop PC and edit using the same catalog. The external drive is drive E: on both computers. I keep the notebook PC at work and bring the external drive to work and edit photos in quiet times (I run my own small business). Several times I have had problems with disk errors and have copied all files to a new portable HDD each time rather than doing a disk clone and all seems good for a while. I always shut down the computers before removing the drive.
I upgraded LIghtroom to v10 a few days ago while on the notebook computer and it upgraded the catalog. When I returned home I upgraded LR to v10 before connecting the external drive and then when I plugged it in I had to select the upgraded catalog with "v10" added to the name by LR and was able to continue editing. The next day when I connected the drive to the notebook PC an error message came up that it couldn't read the catalog file. I restarted the computer and it then opened the LR catalog properly and I was able to edit more photos. The same thing happened when I returned home last night and I was able to open LR after rebooting the PC. Today while on the notebook PC LR opened and I was able to edit more photos. I find that LR often slows down on both computers after a few hours so I closed LR and restarted the computer. Since then I have had an "Unexpected Error opening catalog" message and despite restarting several times I cannot open the catalog. I am now getting an error message: "The Lightroom catalog "2019 Europe - v10" is corrupt and cannot be used or backed up until it is repaired". When I click on "Repair Catalog" I get "Lightroom encountered problems reading or writing from disk when attempting to repair "2019 Europe - v10"" and when I try again the same thing happens.
I have run CHKDSK on the external drive several times today and CHKDSK shows "Corruption was found while examining files in directory ...Lightroom Export/ and then after each entry "cleaning up minor inconsistencies on the drive." Each time I run CHKDSK I get the same messages so the files mustn't have been cleaned up by CHKDSK. When I export from LR I have a "Lightroom Export" folder inside the folder I am editing (I have a separate folder for each place we visited). All of these CHKDSK corruption messages are about the same folder. Last week when copying files from this Lightroom Export folder I had a few photos that would not copy and were corrupted so I went back to LR and exported those same photos again and that worked and I was able to copy all of the re-edited photos to another drive.
I have LR set up to back up the catalog every day so I have a backup from last night. I have never used a Lightroom backup but have done a search on using a backup catalog file. Before I do I would appreciate suggestions on whether it would be better to use a 3.5" powered external USB drive or an external SSD in place of the 2.5" external USB drives I have been using.
I have been editing a lot of photos from a 3 month trip last year and have all of the photos as well as the LR catalogs on a 2.5" external USB drive. I imported them each day while on the trip and started editing on my notebook PC and when at home I plug the external drive into my desktop PC and edit using the same catalog. The external drive is drive E: on both computers. I keep the notebook PC at work and bring the external drive to work and edit photos in quiet times (I run my own small business). Several times I have had problems with disk errors and have copied all files to a new portable HDD each time rather than doing a disk clone and all seems good for a while. I always shut down the computers before removing the drive.
I upgraded LIghtroom to v10 a few days ago while on the notebook computer and it upgraded the catalog. When I returned home I upgraded LR to v10 before connecting the external drive and then when I plugged it in I had to select the upgraded catalog with "v10" added to the name by LR and was able to continue editing. The next day when I connected the drive to the notebook PC an error message came up that it couldn't read the catalog file. I restarted the computer and it then opened the LR catalog properly and I was able to edit more photos. The same thing happened when I returned home last night and I was able to open LR after rebooting the PC. Today while on the notebook PC LR opened and I was able to edit more photos. I find that LR often slows down on both computers after a few hours so I closed LR and restarted the computer. Since then I have had an "Unexpected Error opening catalog" message and despite restarting several times I cannot open the catalog. I am now getting an error message: "The Lightroom catalog "2019 Europe - v10" is corrupt and cannot be used or backed up until it is repaired". When I click on "Repair Catalog" I get "Lightroom encountered problems reading or writing from disk when attempting to repair "2019 Europe - v10"" and when I try again the same thing happens.
I have run CHKDSK on the external drive several times today and CHKDSK shows "Corruption was found while examining files in directory ...Lightroom Export/ and then after each entry "cleaning up minor inconsistencies on the drive." Each time I run CHKDSK I get the same messages so the files mustn't have been cleaned up by CHKDSK. When I export from LR I have a "Lightroom Export" folder inside the folder I am editing (I have a separate folder for each place we visited). All of these CHKDSK corruption messages are about the same folder. Last week when copying files from this Lightroom Export folder I had a few photos that would not copy and were corrupted so I went back to LR and exported those same photos again and that worked and I was able to copy all of the re-edited photos to another drive.
I have LR set up to back up the catalog every day so I have a backup from last night. I have never used a Lightroom backup but have done a search on using a backup catalog file. Before I do I would appreciate suggestions on whether it would be better to use a 3.5" powered external USB drive or an external SSD in place of the 2.5" external USB drives I have been using.