Cannot open Lightroom program

When clicking on the image to start the program it shows the name of only one of my many catalogs, and when trying to open it, I get an error message stating something like unexpected error - cannot open, try another catalog, but no names or or paths to the other catalogs are accessible?
Yesterday I installed ZIPfile software and also CanoScan 9000f with software and I am afraid that either of those may have overwritten the access rules to Lightroom, but do not know.
TAittola

I had exactly the same issue and fixed it almost instantly by following the suggestion to rename the previews.lrdata folder in my latest lightroom backup file. This is the same as deleting it. When you then open Lightroom, it will regenerate the missing previews quickly and you will be back in business. My problem was caused by an interruption in the backup process which corrupted the file. John W.

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