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1. Re: Corrupt lightroom catalog
ssprengel Feb 2, 2014 1:22 PM (in response to DeePeeBee)The metadata being out of sync won’t cause your catalog to become corrupted. You might be doing something else that is causing that, like rebooting the computer in the middle of when LR is working or having the battery run down or undocking the laptop before shutting down LR, or other things that leave LR’s operations unfinished when the computer is powered off.
You can avoid having metadata conflicts by putting your LR catalog on the external drive along with your photos. Make sure the drive letter of your external drive is the same for both computers. I have been doing this for several years, and never had a catalog become corrupted.
How to get things in sync between both sets of images is going to be a manual process, an only as perfect as your memory of which computer the edits were done on most recently. If you have made half your edits to a photo on one computer and half on another then there’s no good way to reconcile them, other than doing the steps by hand that the other catalog has that this one doesn’t.
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2. Re: Corrupt lightroom catalog
dj_paige Feb 2, 2014 2:40 PM (in response to ssprengel)Another possible cause of corrupt catalogs would be if the hard disk is starting to fail.
Also, it is a good idea to make backups regularly via Lightroom, because this compresses/optimizes the catalog and there is a test for the integrity of the catalog.


