3 Replies Latest reply: May 1, 2010 4:25 PM by DVDmike RSS

    Cannot open LR project on new Win 7 x64 system

    DVDmike Community Member

      Can anyone tell me what is going on here?  I built a new PC, win7 x64.  I put my LR database disk and my LR files disk into the new PC.  The drive letters are the same as they were on the old PC.  I installed LR 2.7 on the new PC.  I opened the project file fine.

       

      After a reboot, I can no longer open any of my old LR catalogss.  And I get a message like this.

       

       

       

      I get the same erros with LR3b2 catalogs.lightroom-error.JPG

        • 1. Re: Cannot open LR project on new Win 7 x64 system
          DVDmike Community Member

          I can write other files to this disk using other programs.  So the disk is not write protected or anythig like that.

           

          Here is the lightroom 3 beta screen shot

           

          lightroom3berror.JPG

          • 2. Re: Cannot open LR project on new Win 7 x64 system
            Charlie Choc Community Member

            Your user needs to be the owner or a member of the group that owns the drive. Go into explorer, right click on the drive, properties/security/advanced/owner to see who the owner is and to change it to Administrators (assuming your user is a member of this group) or to your userid. Win7 is more strict about differentiating between premissions and ownership ala POSIX and LR seems to want ownership.

            • 3. Re: Cannot open LR project on new Win 7 x64 system
              DVDmike Community Member

              Thanks Charlie.  I do not have much experience with Win 7 yet.

              I thought that I had created my user ID as an administrator.  But since these disks were brought over from another machine, perhaps this is why it was causing some conflict.  I was also getting intermittent issues opening up Photoshop saying that I could not write to the scratch disk.  Without a lot of testing, the problems appear to be gone after I changed my user to own each disk.