Assertion failed "Lightroom 5

when I try to open Lightroom on my PC, it answered "assertion failed". I allready tried to visit the "picture registrer" as recommanded by Adobe, and the register's name seems to be right. What more can I do? I downloaded the 30 das version and I bought the version 5 on CD.

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I am unable to get to my images in lightroom 2. It is telling me assertion failed. I need some assistance. I had no trouble with it yesterday. Someone was on my computer and they may have renamed a file. I need these images.

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PLEASE HELP Lightroom 5 assertion failed.

I followed the below fix and still get assertion failed
Open Windows Explorer.
Go to C:\Users\[your user name]\.
Check for the folder named Pictures.
If you don't see the folder, create a folder named Pictures under folder C:\Users\[your user name]\.
Restart Lightroom. If the error recurs, restart your computer, then retry. If the error recurs, continue to the next step.
Click the Windows Start button.
Type "regedit" in the Search program and files field, and press the Enter key.
Back up your registry by choosing File > Export. Give the backup copy of the registry a name and location you can remember.
Navigate to the registry key: [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer \User Shell Folders]
Look at the value for the My Pictures entry. The Windows default is: %USERPROFILE%\Pictures, which is the Pictures folder under C:\Users\[your user name]. If another folder is listed, check Windows Explorer for that folder. If it does not exist, you have two options. (1) Create the folder with that name in the location indicated in the registry entry. (2) If the Pictures folder exists under your user name folder, double-click the My Pictures entry, and reset the value to: %USERPROFILE%\Pictures
Quit the registry editor.
Log off from your account and back on, or restart your computer, then restart Lightroom 5.4.

The locations for preference files are usually hidden at the OS level by default.
If you tell us which OS and version, you are using we can probably give specific advice. Barring that read here: http://www.lightroomforums.net/showthread.php?14226-Resetting-(or-Trashing-)-the-Lightroom -Preferences-file

On start up lightroom 4 fails with this message "Assertion failed" anyone have a solution?

Thanks

After talking to Adobe support, they say that because LR4 has so many new features the catalog update doesn't always operate correctly!
Nice one adobe, provide an update path that "doesn't always work"!!!
The only way around it is to create a new catalog and import all the pictures from the failing catalog. In the process losing all published services! Not ideal but I'll have to live with it.
Surely the "assertion failed" message could write out to a log stating exactly what caused the fault. In the apple console all you get is
"31/05/2012 13:49:23.006 Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4: Oops! An untagged string (assertion failed!) got thrown far enough that we display it to the user. This shouldn't happen."
Come on Adobe this is poor!!!

Lightroom 4 - "assertion Failed" error after install

I recently upgraded from 3.6 to 4. Previously, I attempted to install Lightoom 4 beta and tried to open a 3.6 catalog. When it did not work, I simply uninstalled that Lightroom 4 beta.
Now, when I installed Lightroom 4(Upgrade version), installation was uneventful. However, I cannot open the program without crashing. The error message is "assertion failed"   Additional detail on the error shows the following.
Problem signature:
Problem Event Name:          APPCRASH
Application Name:          lightroom.exe
Application Version:          4.0.0.10
Application Timestamp:          4f45ddd8
Fault Module Name:          ntdll.dll
Fault Module Version:          6.1.7601.17725
Fault Module Timestamp:          4ec4aa8e
Exception Code:          c015000f
Exception Offset:          000000000006fd5c
OS Version:          6.1.7601.2.1.0.256.48
Locale ID:          1033
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Ok it is fixed now. Locating the Lightroom 3 catalog file and opening it in Lightroom 4 ( right click and choose program...) prompted me to upgrade the catalog. This fixed the issue

Lightroom, Assertion Fail, and my utter frustration and disappointment with Adobe

Right now it is after 3AM and I have been trying for hours to get my very expensive Adobe software to work because it decided break even though I had not changed anything since it all worked correctly last weekend.
I have been using Lightroom since it initial beta and rely on it to do my job as a photographer. I upgraded to 5.4 the day it came out, which has not been several months ago. It all that time I have not had any problems. Specifically, a week ago it was working just fine. In case this is relevant, despite having full Lightroom 5 and Photoshop CS6 licenses, I went ahead and signed up for CC while the photographer bundle was still available. Anyway, tonight I came home after photographing and event and went to start the import process only to find that Lightroom decided it wanted me to register again, and then did two "Assertion Failure" popups before completely failing to work. This happens if I just launch the application or click on an individual catalog to open it. My deadline which requires the processing of almost 800 photos is what is now this afternoon.
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jgoforth wrote:
Any suggestions for solutions other than was I have listed above would be greatly appreciated.
Try deleting your preferences file (I mean: rename, or make a backup before deleting). This page has location info:
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See the notes on the beta forum. Post this there.

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Based on more customer feedbacks, we have updated the description of the problem and describe a full workaround.
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8) If it points to a non-default directory location, you need to make sure that directory exists physically. Or you can double click on the "My Pictures" entry and reset the value to"%USERPROFILE%\Pictures" (without the double quote).
9) Quit the registry editor.
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Lightroom 4: assertion failed message when opening [was: help]

I have download lightroom 4 from a cd and it is telling me assertion failed when i try to open program.

That is all the error message said: assertion failed
Date: Mon, 3 Jun 2013 18:55:35 -0700
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: help
Re: help created by sarika02 in Downloading, Installing, Setting Up - View the full discussion
Hi Lynchgirl,
Please send complete error message or if possible, send a screen shot.

Lightroom 5: assertion failed!

Hello Everyone,
When I want to export some photo's in lightroom 5 I get the message: assertion failed!
In other topics the tell you to delete the "preference" file. But I cannot find this one for lightroom 5?
Hope someone can help me out with this issue.
Thanks,
Bjorn

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I started by reading the thread at:
Re: "internal error: assertion failed" when exporting via LR4
tinaTS offered what she thought was the correct fix but her suggestion didn't apply to my situation. She suggested moving user presets but I don't have any to move.
I also tried the basic “repair permissions” and Lion restart with no luck.
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Then I removed these files as well:
com.adobe.Lightroom3.plist
com.adobe.Lightroom2.plist
com.adobe.Lightroom3.LSSharedFileList.plist
com.adobe.Lightroom3.plist.lockfile
None of that helped.
I tried removing all files that began with com.adobe.Lightroom and then creating a new library and just importing one picture but I still get the same "internal error" VERY FRUSTRATING.
Obviously, the program is worthless to me if I can't export images.
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Thanks for the suggestions. I tried removing the com.adobe.Lightroom4.plist. This didn't help, still getting the error.
Then I removed these files as well:
com.adobe.Lightroom3.plist
com.adobe.Lightroom2.plist
com.adobe.Lightroom3.LSSharedFileList.plist
com.adobe.Lightroom3.plist.lockfile
None of that helped.
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Oops! An untagged string (assertion failed!) got thrown far enough that we display it to the user. T

After installing the latest update to Lightroom 5, I started getting this message when I started Lightroom:
Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5[4407]: Oops! An untagged string (assertion failed!) got thrown far enough that we display it to the user. This shouldn't happen.
From what I've found through searches, plugins may be related to the problem.
The problem I'm having here is the lack of any information - no crash log, no reference to what caused this - in any log file. I've taken the most recently installed or updated pugins and moved them elsewhere to test and am still getting this message.
I assume that when I see "This shouldn't happen" as a message from the software, that it's a significant warning. What can go wrong / is going wrong as a result of the related problem? Is my data in danger?
All help gratefully appreciated.

Off.line wrote:
Thanks for your thoughts, Rob.
You're welcome .
Off.line wrote:
The few times I wrote something like this, I dumped as much data as I could somewhere to facilitate the debugging process and it's a bit dissappointing that there seems to be no such output.
No such output enabled for users. I'm sure the developers have some way of debugging..
Off.line wrote:
I wonder what the output of the -tracebacks switch would be.
It shows the error in context (I've done it before, but it was a long time ago) - what Lr was doing when error occurred. For example, if plugin was executing, it would show that.
Off.line wrote:
I'm not familiar with the .agprefs file
It's where Lr stores preferences - see your presets folder (location is accessible via a button in Lr preferences dialog box: "Show Lightroom Presets Folder..."). Look in 'Preferences' subfolder. It's the source of some aberrant behavior sometimes..
Off.line wrote:
my catalog is backed up in two places, on two separate devices. But if there's corruption within the catalog, then the backups are bad, too.
If you've been using Lightroom's built-in catalog backup feature, then it creates a new backup each time, so old backups, if not yet deleted, may not have same problem as newer backups. But I think we're getting ahead of ourselves now.
Rob

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