How do I correct this error, "The catalog could not be opened due to an unexpected error."?

How do I correct this error, "The catalog could not be opened due to an unexpected error."?

Surely you could provide some more information. Your system, what version of LR, is this your first attempt at using the program, or what has been prior experience?  Things are a bit foggy.

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  • The catalog could not be opened due to an unexpected error.

    Help -
    I make a new catalog for each photo project
    now I cannot open one of my most important ones (last time opened July 4th, last backup July 4th)
    This would be tragic as there are 2000 photos already edited in it.
    Can you help?
    I already tried to open a new one. Worked
    I already tried to open other ones. Worked
    I read to reinstall lightroom 4 --- didnt do this as I am worried about loosing more files.
    Please help, urgent!
    Thank you

    THG_Bo
    Thank you for this suggestion:
    It sais that catalog can be probably repaired in the future but I need to close all other programs and check my harddrive, which I did. But it still keeps giving me the same message.

  • Using LR 5 windows 7 When I try to open LR I get the message Unexpected error opening catalog The catalog could not be opened due to an unexpected error  HELP

    I have tried opening it as "run as administrator" and there are no lrcat.lock files

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  • How can I fix "catalog could not be opened due to an unexpected error"?

    I have many catalogs and this is only happening with one of them.
    I've done a Google search on the error message and tried some things that I found from those search results in forums.adobe.com and www.lightroomforums.net.
    I've tried deleting preferences file. That did not help.
    I was running version 4.2 when this happened.  Based on what I found by searching, I thought reinstall might fix the problem so I installed 4.3.  That did not fix the problem.
    I've tried opening backups but they have the same problem.
    I'm running Windows 7, 32-bit.  I have 4 GB memory with plenty of free memory available when I try to open this catalog.  Hard drives have plenty of free space.
    I have tried rebooting my computer.  That did not help.
    I've been using Lightroom since version 2 and have never had this problem.
    lrcat.lock file does not exist for this or any other catalog.
    lrcat file is 317,704 KB.
    I did recently install Photoshop Elements 11.  Up until that time I was using Photoshop Elements 6.
    Any suggestions?

    I figured out that the error was caused by file permission problems.
    I made sure that my user has Full Access to all files related to this catalog and it looks like the catalog is useable again.  I don't know how the permissions could have gotten messed up. 
    This catalog worked as recently as 2 days ago.
    It would be nice if error message gave a hint as to what the problem might be.

  • The catalog could not be opened.  An internal programming error occured.

    I have gotten the following error when I started Elements today...
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    I have tried to move the catalog to a different directory to no effect.
    This computer is rarely online, it is only used to catalog my pictures, and I have 100s of hours of work in this catalog.
    Is this recoverable?  How did this happen?
    Background:
    Size of the catalog directory: 61MB
    Core Version 9.0.3
    Operating Systems: 6.1 SP1
    Thanks for your support.

    Create a new, empty catalog:  Hold down your Shift key when launching the Organizer and you'll get the Catalog Manager window.  Create a new catalog, naming it something completely different than your existing catalog.
    Once you're in the Organizer, use File...Catalog to open the Catalog Manager window.  Highlight your old catalog and hit the "Repair" button.  When that finishes, repeat, using "Optimize".  Then try to open your old catalog.
    Ken

  • The catalog could not be opened because it is currently in use by another program

    I get the following error message when I try to open Organizer:
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    Have you rebooted?
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  • Photo shop Element 6 failed to open catalog  The catalog could not be opened.  It is either corrupt

    Photo shop Element 6 failed to open catalog  The catalog could not be opened.  It is either corrupt, or the version is out of date and cannot ne updated

    Hi John
    Thank you very much. As a result of your advise, Adobe Photoshop Element 6 are now working perfect.
    Once again, Thank yoiu
    Kind regards
    Boomie
    Original Message----
    From: [email protected]
    Date: 08/03/2010 05:37 PM
    To: "Boomie Shodeinde"<[email protected]>
    Subj: Photo shop Element 6 failed to open catalog&amp;amp;nbsp; The catalog could not be opened.&amp;amp;nbsp; It is either corrupt
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    I'm not sure why that is happening.
    If you're on Vista or Windows 7, you could try setting the program to run permanently as Administrator, as described here:
    http://www.johnrellis.com/psedbtool/photoshop-elements-faq.htm#_Slide_show_preview
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