Corrupted Lightroom catalog.

[rachelm68408952]

Hi Tanuj,

I am also having the same issue and not able to open my last attempt at a back up.  The backup did not finish and completely locked up my computer and I had to restart it.  Now the file is corrupt.

Thank you,

Rachel

[Neox99]

Primary catalog is 'corrupt'?  Backup Catalog is 'corrupt'?

Why/How?

So you can't use a Catalog Backup . . . How about using your last computer backup?

[rachelm68408952]

I have lightroom 5.7 and it asked me to restart ... so I did.  It then asked me if I wanted to backup and I clicked ok.  The backup froze my computer and I had to restart my computer.  In doing so the catalog was not completely backed up and is now corrupt.  When I start lightroom it tells me that the catalog is corrupt and cannot be used or backed up until it is repaired.  When I click on repair catalog, it gets stuck on update catalog file format.  My previous backup was a week prior and I have done so much since then.  Is it all lost?  Please help! 

Edited to add that it gives error code 404

[Just Shoot Me]

Even if the backup failed that should not corrupt the actual Working catalog file.

Do a search of your drive for .lrcat (​.LRCAT) and see what turns up.

[rachelm68408952]

This is what I am getting:

[Just Shoot Me]

Well it seems you have no real working catalog.

I see a bunch of entries for a F: Drive which seem to be backups of the catalog.

F:\FileHistory\rache_000\RACHEL-HP (4)\Data\C\Us... and the date (2017_12_30 and time 13_17_18 UTC)

But where that actually is on one of you drives I have no idea. It looks like it is pointing to a Drive F: but then references the Data C: drive and the Users folder.

I think you have some very bad computer problems like a corrupted hard drive and LR can't cause that. That is caused by hardware failure.

Hopefully you have backups of your system.