Unable to access 1.4

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NickOsborne

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Hello,

I have happily been using Lightroom since it came out and use version 1.4. At the beginning of this year, I was enticed to trial the version 3 beta (now 3.2) so have run both since. This worked fairly well as I can access old images through 1.4, newer ones through 3.2 (although the web upload problems with 3.2 meant that I could only use 1.4 to upload to my website).

I recently tried to move all of my images from my hard drive to two external hard drives. After doing this (and I don't know whether it was a direct result of), I was unable to access 1.4.

The box reads: ‘Microsft Visual C++ runtime library: runtime error etc.

I have attempted to repair via Add or Remove Programs and am told that ‘The feature you are trying to use is on a network resource that is unavailable…’ and asks me to enter a location for Adobe_Lightroom.msi. I have searched my computer but this is not present anywhere.

Please help! How do I open 4.1?

If it helps, my Lightroom file in My Pictures contains:
Backup folder
Lightroom 3 Catalog-2 Previews.lrdata folder
Temporary folder
Lightroom 3 Catalog.lrcat file
Lightroom 3 Catalg-2 lrcat file
Lightroom Catalg lrcat file

Also, while I’m here... when I eventually buy version 3, how do I upgrade my images from 1.4 so I can work on them? And when will 3 be available to buy?

I have basic IT skills picked up from scouring the web but please do not assume I know anything and be as clear as possible in your response.

Many thanks in advance.
 
I would beging by going to the Adobe site and downloading and reinstalling the latest version of LR 1.x. This should clear up any DLLs that might have gotten trashed by other application installs. This should also permit you to open your licensed version of LR. From there you should be able to ope your V1.4 catalog If your External drives are network attached as opposed to USB attached, you can not access a catalog is it is located on a network drive (true at least for v2.x)
 
Hi Brad and Clee,

I have uninstalled (via Start>All Programs) and installed Lightroom 1.4 many times now and the same thing happens. Any other suggestions?

Thanks
 
Hi Nick, welcome to the forum!

Can you just try holding down Ctrl while starting LR, just to see whether it's falling over trying to open a catalog that's moved? And how did you go about moving stuff to the external drives? Does LR3b2 still work?
 
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