struggling with catalogs

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In the last couple weeks, Lightroom for me has been extremely buggy. Crashing more that intermittently, loosing my catalog and then not being able to re-load the backed up catalog.

Sometimes the crashes will be literally as soon as it opens up, and then after that happens a couple time...there are no more pictures in the cataog.

I have verified and repaired my permissions, I have gotten rid of a bunch of potentially questionable fonts, but I have been using lightroom since the original beta, and these problems have only come up in the last 1' days/2 weeks, and I thought I had it figured out today--this morning every was going great... and now this evening I can't even reload the backed up catalogs.

Please help.

btw...I am using a dual 1.8 G5 with 2.5 gigs of Ram and am fully updated with my OS.
 
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btw...I am using a dual 1.8 G5 with 2.5 gigs of Ram and am fully updated with my OS.
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This should all go in your Signature. Fill in at User CP link in top menu bar.

There is a help thread on this elsewhere.

Are you using LR Version 1.2?

Don
 
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Right

LR v1.2.

I fixed my signature.

I will continue to look in the help section, but I could find anything regarding this in an initial cursory search, and I have gone through most of the Adobe help stuff with questionable results.

thanks
CB
 
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Possibly something outside the realm of Lightroom, perhaps? Maybe a disk going bad, or a buggy OS install? Bad RAM?

Have you checked your permissions on your system?
 
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...and I re-read your Post and see that you have verified your permissions, so scratch that idea.
 
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Sounds frustrating. I have to wonder if it's a LIR issue or somethings else as well.

Have you tried a fresh install of Lightroom? Try backing up any preferences you have and re-installing LR.

Alternatively, do you have another system you could load one of you catalogs on?
 
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Sometimes old Catalogs can just go bad. Have you tried creating a fresh one and importing from there? If you get the old one running, try either selecting all in 'All Photographs' and then Cmd S to save out the XMP info, then create a new catalog and import. Or Select all and then 'Export as Catalog'. Hopefully either one of those will help get you a functioning Catalog.
Make sure you check the disk as others have mentioned, just in case it's starting to go.
 
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Sounds like RAM to me.
 
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I'd definitely go with the new catalog option, to discount any possibilities of it being catalog corruption.

But before that, delete your preferences file. That seems to fix a multitude of weird bugs in my experience.
 
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well...

After working on this most of the evening yesterday, I finally created a new catalog, trashed the old app and reinstalled a clean version. I should have just did that in the first place as it seems to be working like a champ now, and it took very little time. Thanks again everyone for the help.
 
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That is good news Chris.
If you get more problems, just sing out!!
 
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Glad you've got it working now!
 
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