Lightroom 4.3 corrupts my RAW images stored on local SSD harddisk

Using Lightroom 4.3 with Camera RAW 7.3 on latest MacBook Pro with 256 GB SSD harddisk, 8 GB internal memory bought 2 months ago. Hardware shows no other problems or malfunctioning, no issues with RAM or otherwise.
Started Lightroom 4.3 did an import from perfect images (viewed before using various other software packages) stored on the harddisk. Used option ADD to add to the catalog. Almost immediately certain images were showing missing areas or areas with pink/white stripes, etc.
I didn't even touch the images to view or edit them. The images were corrupted on disk as previewing them with other software packages showed.

bruijnesteijn wrote:
I appreciate all the help
You're welcome, for my part .
bruijnesteijn wrote:
I am getting the feeling that a Lightroom user is expected to be know a lot of possible hardware and software stuff thn can be expected from the average photographer.
Only if they're having problems .
bruijnesteijn wrote:
MacBook extended checks. No issues, unless we are going to question the Apple software used for checking their own hardware...
I have no clue...
bruijnesteijn wrote:
I copy my images to my harddisk using Adobe Bridge Photo Downloader = check, images are OK in Camera RAW & Photoshop.
If we're talking about the raw rendering, and not just the jpeg, then this means transfer hardware is OK.
bruijnesteijn wrote:
After this no other hardware is involved
That is not so true. Hard disk, ram, cpu, ..., - all play a continuing role.
bruijnesteijn wrote:
No proprietary RAW format e.g. I use standard Canon 550D settings. Not sure how proprietary you call that and what I can do about that and why Lightroom would have a problem with it. If that would be an issue I would expect a lot more issues from other users.
A proprietary raw file is any raw file that is not DNG. The distinction is important because:
* Proprietary raws can not be corrupted by Lightroom (that statement has 99.999999999999% probability of being true, in the context discussed so far).
* DNGs on the other hand, are, in some circumstances, completely re-written, and can, therefore, be corrupted on Lr's watch (due to hardware failure). Granted, if such failure does occur, Lr is able to give a fairly clear & unambiguous message, since it keeps check codes for raw data integrity assurance. Note: such protection assumes the image was good when initially converted to DNG, and went bad after-ward - which is not necessarily the case: thus a good reason to visually inspect all images after conversion to DNG.
bruijnesteijn wrote:
Software:
No other software
*iff* it is certain that raw image (raw-rendering, as distinguished from jpeg preview), was OK, before accessing via Lightroom, the other software is a non-factor.
bruijnesteijn wrote:
Calibration display:
XRITE i1 display pro
I am a bit confused why a calibration file would get off-balance after some time? You need to recalibrate the display once in while, but that's because the display is changing.
I can understand Lightroom has problems with a corrupted profile, but how can it get corrupted as I would assume it is only read (not written) and why is Photoshop not having these issues?
My focus is now on recalibration of display to rule out that item
Not my area of expertise. However, in general, if you're having uncaught disk or hardware problems, or even software bugs, files can become corrupted - not just image files.
PS - Did the Mac/HW test include the drive where photos are stored?
Cheers,
Rob

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