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1. Re: Help Please - phantom locking files won't allow me to open files.
John Blair Jan 14, 2012 10:12 PM (in response to rollsnut)Brad,
LR creates the .lock file whenever it is opened to protect the catalog from being accessed by another LR program. When LR is closed normally, it deletes that file. When LR crashes, that file is left behind. Simply delete the .lock file, and try again. Do not delete any other files.
John
John G. Blair Studio
Occidental, California
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2. Re: Help Please - phantom locking files won't allow me to open files.
rollsnut Jan 16, 2012 8:38 AM (in response to John Blair)John:
Thanks for responding.
The lock file ONLY appears when the lrcat file is accessed to oprn the catalog...so there is NO file to delete. If so it would be a piece of cake...ergo, frustration! Doesn.t even show up on a "*.lrcat.lock search."
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3. Re: Help Please - phantom locking files won't allow me to open files.
Hal P Anderson Jan 16, 2012 9:12 AM (in response to rollsnut)The location that your catalogue is in is likely protected against writes by your userid. Get that straightened away, and you should be good to go.
Try running Lightroom as an administrator to test that hypothesis. (Right click on the icon and choose Run as Administrator.)
Hal
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4. Re: Help Please - phantom locking files won't allow me to open files.
rollsnut Jan 21, 2012 5:15 AM (in response to Hal P Anderson)Hal:
Sorry for late response - was away from a connection for a few days then Adobe Forums was down for a time!
Thanks for tip. Since I am already administrator on my machine I was skeptical. Your suggestion worked but is there another setting I need to complete so I don't always have to open as administrator? Example: After opening a file as administrator I closed out and tried to re-o[en as normal but not cigar?
Any thoughts?
Thanks,
Brad
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5. Re: Help Please - phantom locking files won't allow me to open files.
Hal P Anderson Jan 21, 2012 6:55 AM (in response to rollsnut)Brad,
Probably you don't have ownership of the volume. That was probably set in the shop to some other user id, perhaps on some other computer.
Try this: Right click on the volume in Computer, choose Properties, Security tab, set Permission for Users (or Everybody) to Full Control.
If that doesn't work, you need to hit the Advanced... button on the Security tab and go to the Owner tab on the window that comes up and assign yourself as Owner.
Hal
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6. Re: Help Please - phantom locking files won't allow me to open files.
rollsnut Jan 22, 2012 6:35 PM (in response to Hal P Anderson)Hal:
Veeeeeeeeeery interesting......My E drive contained the recovered drive files and working the security setting on E the process involved changing the security settings on all files, whch I have no problem with. I opened LR and the file opened immediately. I also tried opening other files from within LR (ones I couldn't access before) and BINGO!!!
Thanks so much. Now all I need do is se if a general re-sync to my remote drive will do all files recognizing the change of security...if not I can drag-n-drop.
Sync doesn't do it but running the securtity on the drive does the fix.
One happy camper here!
Brad
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7. Re: Help Please - phantom locking files won't allow me to open files.
Hal P Anderson Jan 23, 2012 2:56 AM (in response to rollsnut)Brad,
Glad to help.
Hal
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8. Re: Help Please - phantom locking files won't allow me to open files.
rollsnut Jan 23, 2012 6:38 AM (in response to Hal P Anderson)Interesting footnote - although the lrcat files will open, with some of them, when they open LR, one has to dbl-click in the thumbnail section along the bottom for them to appear in the "Develop" main screen - normally a one click operation. Seems as though changing the security won't allow changes on some of the files. Not sure why as I tried various ways with files I found a "inconvenience." - I'll contiue to play with it.
Very strange but at least I can work the files.
Brad
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9. Re: Help Please - phantom locking files won't allow me to open files.
ThomasH_on_the_web Jan 28, 2012 1:38 PM (in response to rollsnut)Actually, it may be more to it. I just wasted good 7 hours on the issue: I transferred a big external drive from old WinXp system to my new W7 system, and faced the ownership mayhem ever since.
No matter what I did to the Volume Owner, Files Owner and attributes, recursive Directory Ownership jobs enduring tens of minutes at a time, nothing helped really.
Because you might have one more issue:
Use "Folder Options", either from Tools menu in Explorer, if menu shows, or via Control Panel.
Click on View tab, and find the box for "Hide protected operating system files (recommended)". Ignore that recommendation, uncheck.
Go now to the root directory of your troubled drive and you will see a hidden file "System Volume Information". This can be the "bad guy." Ensure that you have access to that file using the Properties / Security tab in a customary fashion! In my case that file was "padlocked", a small lock icon was placed over the folder icon to indicate that.
Only once I changed that, I was able to access the LR catalogs as a regular user. And only than LR was finally able to access existing previews and to display the grid image icons!
Ugrh.... Windows, the "personal computer system" is a mess, a labyrinth of convoluted intertwined dependencies, maybe created in competing departments and piled up atop of each other in an unseemly fashion. Compared to Unix and its derivatives it is a nightmare, which is a part of our lives for decades already.
I think that all the Apple users are now double-happy to have made the transition, when they see such "problems."



