Lightroom Classic won't launch

FishyFish

FishyFish

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I'm having a problem with Lightroom Classic.

When I try to launch it (on Windows 11), I briefly get a spinning wheel and then nothing. Taskmaster shows it running as a background task using about 225MB RAM but no CPU.

I've tried launching it via the icon, the start menu, through Creative Cloud, and as an administrator to no effect. I've also reset the preferences file.

I've uninstalled and re-installed it without success, and even tried reverting to a previous version (13.4 to 13.3.1).

I'm assuming there's a system file causing an issue somewhere, but no idea what it might be. Some online resources suggest deleting a metrics.json file, but these seem to be regarding the MC version.

Any ideas please?

Thanks.
 
I've managed to sort it no (I hope!), although it involved deleting lots of files and catalogues, another re-install, and then use of a slightly older catalog backup. I've lost the changes / imports I made in the last week, but I can live with that as it shouldn't take too long to re-do that stuff.

Remember people, backups are a good thing! :)
 
FishyFish said:
I've managed to sort it no (I hope!), although it involved deleting lots of files and catalogues, another re-install, and then use of a slightly older catalog backup. I've lost the changes / imports I made in the last week, but I can live with that as it shouldn't take too long to re-do that stuff.

Remember people, backups are a good thing! :)
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I've had this and opening LRC using and old catalogue then installing the current catalogue has done the trick.
 
Mine did the same thing, I first deleted the shortcut icon from the taskbar.
Then in Win 10
Start>Select Adobe LR Classic then Right Click>run as administrator its worked fine ever since.
Strangely selecting Run as Administrator from the icon did work
Hope it works

Chris
 
I've had it happen a couple of times, but not for a while, just restarting my PC done the trick.
 
FishyFish said:
I've managed to sort it no (I hope!), although it involved deleting lots of files and catalogues, another re-install, and then use of a slightly older catalog backup. I've lost the changes / imports I made in the last week, but I can live with that as it shouldn't take too long to re-do that stuff.

Remember people, backups are a good thing! :)
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I think this is a good reason to save edits to a sidecar file (.xmp) as well as the catalogue. If you have to use an older catalogue or even (heaven forbid) start from scratch then LRC will simply rebuild the new catalogue from the sidecar files. It takes a while, depending on how many images you have in the catalogue) but it is easier and quicker than re-editing a whole mess of images. xmp files are so small the additional hard drive space they take up is miniscule compared to the library.
 
Bristolian said:
I think this is a good reason to save edits to a sidecar file (.xmp) as well as the catalogue.
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I thought this happened automatically when you did a backup ?
 
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