I signed up with Crash Plan, a cloud backup, paid for one year and began backing up. Now my Lightroom 5 is unable to find the LRcat files or the preview files. when I search my files they are right where I had them. How do I tell LR where to find them?

[RogerAlt]

I signed up with Crash Plan, a a cloud storage system.  Shortly after it began backing up  ALL my files, LR 5 crashed.

It is unable to locate the lrcat files or the lr data.  I checked and they are in the same place they were before.

How can I help LR find these files?  Many thanks.

A desperate and worried man.

[JP Hess · Accepted solution]

Locate the catalog (lrcat) file with your system browser and double-click on it. Lightroom should start and load that catalog.

[dj_paige]

LR 5 crashed.

It is unable to locate the lrcat files or the lr data.

Exactly what do you see, describe in detail; and exactly what is the error message (word-for-word, verbatim) that you are receiving?