Lightroom Journal Files

Can someone explain to me please what a journal file is and what it's for?
I was copying some files round the other evening and came across a Lightroom 2 and a Lightroom 3 journal file. They appear to have been in existance for some time, I've just never been aware of them. they aren't causing me any kind of problem and everything is working just fine, I just wondered what they are for.
Regards
Phil

Phil, they appear alongside the lrcat file with a .lock file while Lightroom is in use. The journal file ought not be removed as it contains vital infrmation not yet written to the catalog while in use. Although if there are old ones left behind after crashes, etc ther would be no harm in removing those with Lightroom closed.
The lock file prevents others accessing the database while it is in use and possibly corrupting it.

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On Tue, 31 Mar 2015 05:36:02 +0000, swamipokuri wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> I am running with the SUSE 11 on Netra machine(X4270). I am seeing
> periodically generated journal files getting corrupted i.e random zeros
> are present in the journal files. This corruption is happening after 6th
> journal file is created, so this is the pattern. There are no changes
> from software or hardware point, i started seeing journal files getting
> corrupted with zeros all of a sudden. Any inputs for this issue will be
> a great help
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