Comments on: THE PROBLEM – LIGHTROOM CATALOG CORRUPTION http://www.thenomadicphotographer.com/2007/12/23/the-problem-lightroom-catalog-corruption/ Jonathan Kingston explores the world in search of images and insights Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:43:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: admin http://www.thenomadicphotographer.com/2007/12/23/the-problem-lightroom-catalog-corruption/comment-page-1/#comment-2219 admin Tue, 20 Sep 2011 05:03:36 +0000 http://www.thenomadicphotographer.com/?p=13#comment-2219 Hi Jay, Don't panic. LR simply thinks the photos are on the old hard drive. Right click on the folder with the question mark on it (or the photo with the question mark on it) and re-link the photo to the original on the new drive. Check out <a href="http://lightroomers.com/tutorial-reconnecting-folders-and-photos-in-lightroom-2/114/" rel="nofollow">THIS</a> link. Hi Jay, Don’t panic. LR simply thinks the photos are on the old hard drive. Right click on the folder with the question mark on it (or the photo with the question mark on it) and re-link the photo to the original on the new drive. Check out THIS link.

]]> By: jay willis http://www.thenomadicphotographer.com/2007/12/23/the-problem-lightroom-catalog-corruption/comment-page-1/#comment-2218 jay willis Sat, 17 Sep 2011 12:22:12 +0000 http://www.thenomadicphotographer.com/?p=13#comment-2218 My 640 GB Mac HD was getting full --- mostly from RAW files imported into Lightroom3. I had this HD cloned to a 2TB drive to give me more "elbow room". When I booted the Mac Pro up and opened Lightroom3, my current catalog was not there! When I opened with a different catalog, most of my photos (previews) are there in Library but almost all have "?" in the corner and LR3 can't seem to find them. I back up to my HD2 and to an external LaCie drive, but can't seem to locate the catalog that I last used. I admit not being a computer whiz but I do back-up regularly. Any thoughts on how to rectify this mess and get my catalog / photos back in play? My 640 GB Mac HD was getting full — mostly from RAW files imported into Lightroom3. I had this HD cloned to a 2TB drive to give me more “elbow room”. When I booted the Mac Pro up and opened Lightroom3, my current catalog was not there! When I opened with a different catalog, most of my photos (previews) are there in Library but almost all have “?” in the corner and LR3 can’t seem to find them. I back up to my HD2 and to an external LaCie drive, but can’t seem to locate the catalog that I last used. I admit not being a computer whiz but I do back-up regularly. Any thoughts on how to rectify this mess and get my catalog / photos back in play?

]]> By: admin http://www.thenomadicphotographer.com/2007/12/23/the-problem-lightroom-catalog-corruption/comment-page-1/#comment-2129 admin Fri, 08 Apr 2011 21:32:46 +0000 http://www.thenomadicphotographer.com/?p=13#comment-2129 Hi Leisa, Offsite backup over the net is still problematic due to the large size of RAW files. Photoshelter is one of the best service out there for this - but know it will take time to upload the info. For myself, I have my top 1000 photos backed up in the cloud and everything else in triplicate - with one of the drives physically off site. Hi Leisa, Offsite backup over the net is still problematic due to the large size of RAW files. Photoshelter is one of the best service out there for this – but know it will take time to upload the info. For myself, I have my top 1000 photos backed up in the cloud and everything else in triplicate – with one of the drives physically off site.

]]> By: Leisa http://www.thenomadicphotographer.com/2007/12/23/the-problem-lightroom-catalog-corruption/comment-page-1/#comment-2128 Leisa Fri, 08 Apr 2011 14:45:34 +0000 http://www.thenomadicphotographer.com/?p=13#comment-2128 Oh bless you!!!!! I am so thankful to have found this! I have just had this issue since upgrading to lightroom 3. I had 30,781 images on this ehd so far...first it ran slow then I started getting the corrupt message. I do have a couple of questions. 1. Should I now delete the file it says is corrupt? 2. How do I move the location from my desktop to my external hard drive without making Lightroom crazy? 3. Do you recommend offsite backups with a service in addition to external hard drives? Before I upgraded to Lightroom 3 my catalog was backed up to my external hd, after I upgraded, I must not have designated where to back up because it puts it in my pictures, I went to catalog settings to change it but it didn't give the option to change it? Thanks again for this post!!! Leisa Oh bless you!!!!! I am so thankful to have found this! I have just had this issue since upgrading to lightroom 3. I had 30,781 images on this ehd so far…first it ran slow then I started getting the corrupt message. I do have a couple of questions. 1. Should I now delete the file it says is corrupt? 2. How do I move the location from my desktop to my external hard drive without making Lightroom crazy? 3. Do you recommend offsite backups with a service in addition to external hard drives?

Before I upgraded to Lightroom 3 my catalog was backed up to my external hd, after I upgraded, I must not have designated where to back up because it puts it in my pictures, I went to catalog settings to change it but it didn’t give the option to change it?

Thanks again for this post!!!

Leisa

]]> By: admin http://www.thenomadicphotographer.com/2007/12/23/the-problem-lightroom-catalog-corruption/comment-page-1/#comment-1947 admin Wed, 20 Oct 2010 17:12:41 +0000 http://www.thenomadicphotographer.com/?p=13#comment-1947 Hi Mike - Glad to hear this helped! Hi Mike – Glad to hear this helped!

]]> By: Mike Sweeney http://www.thenomadicphotographer.com/2007/12/23/the-problem-lightroom-catalog-corruption/comment-page-1/#comment-1946 Mike Sweeney Wed, 20 Oct 2010 14:01:11 +0000 http://www.thenomadicphotographer.com/?p=13#comment-1946 After trying several times to export a messy database into a clean backup and it failing, this worked. Thanks for sharing a very valuable tip. After trying several times to export a messy database into a clean backup and it failing, this worked. Thanks for sharing a very valuable tip.

]]> By: admin http://www.thenomadicphotographer.com/2007/12/23/the-problem-lightroom-catalog-corruption/comment-page-1/#comment-1939 admin Tue, 12 Oct 2010 19:38:20 +0000 http://www.thenomadicphotographer.com/?p=13#comment-1939 Hi Erika, What version of LR are you running? If you are still on version 1 or 2, then the slowness is a known problem. I would recommend upgrading to version 3. My largest catalog in V3 currently has over 100,000 images and is very quick. Regards - Jonathan Hi Erika,

What version of LR are you running? If you are still on version 1 or 2, then the slowness is a known problem. I would recommend upgrading to version 3. My largest catalog in V3 currently has over 100,000 images and is very quick.

Regards – Jonathan

]]> By: Erika http://www.thenomadicphotographer.com/2007/12/23/the-problem-lightroom-catalog-corruption/comment-page-1/#comment-1936 Erika Fri, 01 Oct 2010 14:50:37 +0000 http://www.thenomadicphotographer.com/?p=13#comment-1936 To revisit Joseph's post and question from above... my hard drive reacts at a snails pace when LR is open. I've been chalking it up to the volume of photos I have, but know that LR is built to manage large volumes of photos. I'm wondering the same thing, do you save all previews? if so, where do I find those? Maybe that's part of my problem. Also... I just started getting the corrupt catalog messages too. I will follow your recommended solution above... TODAY! To revisit Joseph’s post and question from above… my hard drive reacts at a snails pace when LR is open. I’ve been chalking it up to the volume of photos I have, but know that LR is built to manage large volumes of photos. I’m wondering the same thing, do you save all previews? if so, where do I find those? Maybe that’s part of my problem. Also… I just started getting the corrupt catalog messages too. I will follow your recommended solution above… TODAY!

]]> By: admin http://www.thenomadicphotographer.com/2007/12/23/the-problem-lightroom-catalog-corruption/comment-page-1/#comment-1917 admin Wed, 01 Sep 2010 02:41:06 +0000 http://www.thenomadicphotographer.com/?p=13#comment-1917 Hi Michelle - Glad to hear it helped! Hi Michelle – Glad to hear it helped!

]]> By: Michelle http://www.thenomadicphotographer.com/2007/12/23/the-problem-lightroom-catalog-corruption/comment-page-1/#comment-1916 Michelle Sun, 29 Aug 2010 01:44:49 +0000 http://www.thenomadicphotographer.com/?p=13#comment-1916 You saved me! I can't thank you enough. I tried so many different things to save my catalog and Years worth of work. The backup wasn't working (and I've backed up a lot) but your blog post here saved me. THANK YOU! You saved me! I can’t thank you enough. I tried so many different things to save my catalog and Years worth of work. The backup wasn’t working (and I’ve backed up a lot) but your blog post here saved me. THANK YOU!

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