Every image I have edited since upgrading to Lightroom 5 has been corrupted.

More likely you are having a hardware problem causing this corruption. You need to try different combinations of hardware (camera card, card reader or USB cable, hard disk and even memory) to see which one is causing the problem.

> Then there was an issue because LR didn't work with my camera (Nikon D90) and an update supposedly fixed that.

The D90 has been supported forever by Lightroom. I doubt that was the issue except maybe if you were still running Lightroom 1 as it was added in LR 2 which is positively ancient by now. Also raw support in Lightroom has nothing to do with which version of the OS you are running at all. I would indeed say you have some hardware issues. Also, make absolutely sure that you DO NOT USE Nikon's software to download images from your memory cards. Older versions of this software corrupt raw files to make them unreadable by Lightroom. I believe there is some software that can fix those files floating around on this forum but I have no clue where.

The versions are completely independent of each other, So that shouldn't be the problem. I have a D90, and I haven't had any problems in any version of Lightroom with it. You must have a hardware problem somewhere.

I guess my next step is taking the computer in to get the hardware checked? (I don't know how to do that on my own.)

Sure you do.

You:

1. take photos with a different camera card, see what happens
2. transfer photos to the computer using a different USB Cable/Card Reader, see what happens
3. try the whole process on a different computer, see what happens

>I just know that the D90 was temporarily not supported and I had to run updates.

That's strange. They probably told you something random to be able to tell you something that you could do. What version of the operating system were you running?

>I guess my next step is taking the computer in to get the hardware checked? (I don't know how to do that on my own.)

Since it sounds like you have an Apple and you are not a computer expert, your best bet is to go to an Apple store and make an appointment with a "genius". They can very quickly check for common hardware issues. If you don't have a store nearby, at least try running "Disk Utility" (just type that in the little looking glass at the top right hand corner). Do both "repair Disk Permissions" and "Verify Disk" on your main hard disk. If Verify Disk finds errors, you'll have to reboot from the recovery partition (it will give you instructions on how to do that but here is a webpage showing how that works Resolve startup issues and perform disk maintenance with Disk Utility and fsck ), but again, the Apple store folks can help with that too.

Sounds like the card reader is the number 1 suspect!

Can you find one of those raw images in finder and double click on it? It should open in preview.app. If it looks ok there your Lightroom catalog might simply be corrupted.

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I see that the D90 uses SD cards. Do you have an older Mac that doesn't have an SD card slot? All the current Macs have one as far as I can tell, but I'm not sure when that became standard on Macs. If your Mac does have an SD card slot, try using that one rather than your present card reader (do you connect it via a usb port?), because it sure does look like, as dj_paige said, the card reader is the number one suspect.

Very good thought. And, if that is the case, then it is very likely that your raw files are OK and not unusable. It is my understanding that one of the great things about Lightroom is that it does not touch your original files. That's why you can edit an image in photoshop with the option of not attaching the Lightroom edits.

Jao vdL wrote:

 

Can you find one of those raw images in finder and double click on it? It should open in preview.app. If it looks ok there your Lightroom catalog might simply be corrupted.

 

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Lightroom previews might be corrupted, but catalog corruption usually results in the catalog not being openable; and furthermore the photos are not stored in the catalog anyway.

>When I go to the files in finder, the corrupted NEFs are not able to be

seen, but the corrupted JPEGs are!

They don't open or do you get a blank screen when you try to open them or

do the files not have icons? It's a good sign that your jpegs are visible

though. That does make me think the preview database or catalog in

Lightroom is screwed up.

>When I try to plug the camera into the computer with a USB cord it doesn't

recognize it

What happens when you plug the camera in turn it on and select import

photos in Lightroom? You should get to see the images on the camera. Try

different USB cables if it doesn't work. Also try changing the USB mode on

your camera. I think the old Nikons had a setting to change between PtP and

Mass storage mode. Just changing it might make it work. This all does smell

a little like the USB ports are bad on the computer something they should

be able to diagnose at the Apple Store but you might want to ask about.

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Good that at least you can now work with your files.

On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 9:25 AM, MommaPotts <forums_noreply@adobe.com>