"lightroom encountered an erorr when reading from it's preview cache and needs to close"
I can't get rid of this error message. I have moved/deleted the preview cache..did not help. I then deleted all the other files in the "Lightroom" folder...doesn't help. Please help!! thank you in advance
Thanks everyone. Just for future people who may read this... Turns out..LR had created another catalog on my C:/ drive that I didn't know about. (My main catalog is located on a separate drive.) So, when I was doing all of these steps to my main catalog, it didn't work. Problem was on the C:/ drive. I still wasted a ton of time talking to support and the person was not knowledgeable. He/She kept telling me that my catlog was corrupted even though the error message clearly stated it was the preview cache. All of these software companies need to a) bring their support desks back into this country, b) train the people to actually know the product inside and out. I've had to contact 3 different companies for support over the past few weeks and all of them gave me useless generic answers that you can find on their websites. Frustrating. Sorry for the rant and thanks again everyone.
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how do i fix this. It says Lightroom encountered an error when reading from a previous cache and needs to quit. Light room will attempt to to fix the problem the next time it launches.
Have a look at this thread.
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I've tried renaming my catalog.lrcat file. I've copied over my most recent backup of the catalog.lrcat and that didn't work either.On Mac:
PS - to open the previews "folder" (a "package" is just a "special" folder) on Mac, ctrl-click and choose "Show package contents.." - same way you open any other special folder, like .app or .lrplugin..
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i upgraded from lightroom 4 to lightroom 5 and installed it on a separate hard drive. Initially had no problems util my computer crashed due to the failure of the drive on which Lightroom 5 was installed. Since having my computer rectified, i am unable to use lightroom 5 getting the message "lightroom encountered an error when reading from its preview cache and needs to quit"
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Lightroom encountered an error when reading from its preview cache and needs to quit. Lightroom will attempt to fix this problem the next time it launches"."Help
PleaseStan Blumberg wrote:
I have deleted the file but the message persists even after restarting the computer....any advice??...I am using LR 5
You don't delete a file, you have to delete a folder. Is that what you did?
If you deleted the folder specified above, and you still get the message, then it's the wrong folder. Use your operating system's search function and find ALL folders on ALL disks whose name ends with Previews.LRDATA, delete each one found, and then try opening Lightroom. -
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