Losing Previews

Lightroom 3.4 is not saving the preview images in the catalog.
My photo archives are stored on multiple external hard drives, each image thoroughly keyworded. When I need to search my archives for photos, say Egret, I choose that in the Keyword List and all the previews of my egrets come up. I look through and choose the one I want. Then I click Photo > Show in Explorer and Lightroom tells me which Hard Drive to plug-in to find the full size image. This system has been working well for me for years, but recently I had to replace my motherboard and reinstall software. Since then, Lightroom has not been saving the previews in the catalog (I assume) because, when I follow the steps above, all I see is blank gray images instead of preview images except when a given Hard Drive is already plugged in. I need for the previews to be stored in the catalog.
How do I get Lightroom to save the previews so I can see them without necessarily having the fullsize images available?
Under Edit > Catalog Settings > File Handling, I have the Standard Preview Size set to 1024 px, the Preview Quality set to Low, and the Automatically Discard 1:1 Previews set to Never. That is the only place I can find that may be responsible for keeping the previews.
This problem has become a huge wrench in my workflow. Any help getting this fixed would be much appreciated.

I rebuilt all my 1:1 previews about 9 months ago, all 120,000 + of them which took a good 56 hours, then the 3.4.1 update started to mess them up which I started noticing today when LR started rebuilding thumbnails all of a sudden.
Does Adobe really think their paying users have this kind of time to rebuild thumbnails when THEIR update caused the problem in the first place?? There is no other explanation for my previews disappearing, I have no corruption in any of my drives, no bad memory, absolutely diddly squat wrong with my hardware and OS.
It seems the only solution to this problem on these forums is "rebuild your thumbnails" ..... with this product nearing its 4th release nonsense like this should be long since fixed. I don't have 50+ hours to have my machine re-rendering thumbnails but once again I am left with no other choice from Adobe. Really disappointing.

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I have the tm2 and have not experience an issue with the recovery and wifi being off, but it certainly is in the realm of possibility. I just had not encountered it on my own tm2, so I subconsciously dismissed it or just didn't think of it as a result.
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LR 5.3 err on startup: LR encountered an error when reading from its preview cache and needs to quit

I just got this message today while i was trying to move some files via LR.
I've researched and found that everyone else was able to fix their issue by moving the preview database out of LR, tried that but it doesn't fix the problem.
I've moved all files except the new preview and catalog (only a single catalog) database from the Picture/Lightroom folder
I've rebooted the computer several times and tried opening LR, still no joy.
The size of my catalog is 3.8GB
The size of the preview is 6.5GB (77,186 files in 45,745 folders).
This is a new install from scratch on a new PC,
Specs are:
Intel i7 4770
32GB memory
2 x 250GB SSD drive in RAID 1 for OS and apps
1 x 6TB SATA HDD for images in a RAID 5
1 x 5.3TB SATA HDD for final images in a RAID 5
I've had nothing but issues with this system since day 1, images transferred and they do not show up correcting inthe individual folders (especially 2012). Total image count is about 320,000
Seems to me that LR cannot handle the numbers although LR3.6 was a lot stable this version is shakey all over the place. Have not had a decent day of work since some 6 weeks ago when i made the change. Victoria has been helping me a lot with working out the images issues and I think we ran into a corruption the other day.. after a few runs of the optimise feature in which case it crashed on the first 2 attempts I thought we had gotten past this, but instead today it presented me with a new error.
So I do hope this can be resolved as I'm losing time in getting work out...
Thanks...
Jon

Well, well what do you know.. it just came up..
I moved all files from the LR folder except the catalog, rebooted and it came up...
I guess the next thing to do is to get the previews back.
Hope this is a good sign...

LR 5.7 "encountered an error when reading from its preview cache". Happened the other day, I went to a day old backup and continued working. But now it happened again. LR renamed the catalog "Lightroom 5_ANDERS-OFFICE8_Mar-15-230042-2015_Conflict".

I installed 5.7, ran ok for a while. Then it gave the error message that the preview cache was bad. A few times I have gotten this message and it restarts and repairs it. But now it couldn't. Renamed the Lightroom 5 catalog with the name "Lightroom 5_ANDERS-OFFICE8_Mar-15-230042-2015_Conflict". I got a backup and ran with that, and after a few days it happened again. It cannot repair and read the cache and shuts down.
What should I do? I can probably go to a backup again, but I keep losing work. I now backup every day.
But I need the system to be stable.
This is Windows 8.1. Lots of RAM and disk space.

The catalog isn't the problem, but rather that preview file. Use Windows Explorer or Finder (depending on your operating system) to browse to the folder that contains your catalog. Locate and delete the folder that has the extension .lrdata. Then you should be able to start Lightroom normally and it will begin generating a new cache file.

Preview and TextEdit windows continuously lose focus

Preview and TextEdit windows keep losing focus.
In other words, I select the window, but them moments later it deselects itself (title and traffic light buttons grey out).
The app's menu is still visible (ie it still appears as if Preview or TextEdit is the active app).
But if I do single-app-expose, no windows appear at all and I just see a blank screen (ie as if the app doesn't have any windows open at all).
So it's almost as if the app isn't aware it even has windows open?
Anyone else have this? Any ideas for a fix?

I'm not sure of the name or if it is even accessable from system monitor. I had the same issue with the daemon relanching the app and ended up uninstalling everything until there is a fix. I believe the last update is from 2009 so it's not in active development and chances of an expedited fix aren't great. I wrote an email to axiotron the same day as my oruginal post here and have not received a response yet.
While a complete uninstall is more of a trade off than a solution it may be the only 'fix' for the time being. To uninstall you may need to run an app from within the installation dvd or disk image.
I'm not near my mac right now but will double check some things in a bit and post if I discover anything new and useful. In the mean time you can check for options within your app that may disablethe autostart feature. This doesn't exist in Quickscripts so I was forced to either uninstall or deal with the bug and not use textedit and preview.....I chose to uninstall of course.

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