Lr 2.2 broken - an error occurred when trying to change modules

I get the message "an error occurred when trying to change modules when I try to go into library mode. quit and restart didn't help. Catalog verified as okay. Worked before update.

Deleting preferences did not help. I also tried creating a new lightroom catalog, and can navigate around it fine. However, if I do something like change to Library in the new catalog and then open my useful catalog, I immediately get the error changing modules message. I tried reimporting my useful catalog, which also did not work. My understanding is that this error is some kind of catch all which could indicate any number of different issues - is there a way for me to roll back to 2.1? Is there a reason that so many people are having an issue with this upgrade (there are posts in other forums and blogs about people having this same issue after upgrading).

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  • "an error occurred when trying to change modules"

    When I switch repeatedly between Library and Develop with the R and E keys, I always sooner or later run into a problem where nothing happens when I press R. Really that should go the Develop module and enter crop mode -- what I'm usually trying to do, when this happens, is crop a bunch of photos. So I'll be using Library mode to identify the photos that need cropping, stepping through photos with the arrow keys, then when I find one that I want to crop, I press R, enter develop+crop mode, crop the photo, press E to return to library+loupe view, and continue.
    Sometimes this works 10 times, sometimes it only works twice, but always, relatively soon, when I press R, "nothing" will happen. Actually what's happening is an error dialog appears saying "an error occurred when trying to change modules", then the error dialog immediately disappears before I can read it. I know what it says, because if I click the Develop module with the mouse, I get the same message but it sticks around until I press OK.
    Once this happens, I'm entirely unable to use the Develop module until I quit the program. I had to quit and restart LR about 20 times during an hour of working with it last night, and this morning, in the first 15 minutes, I'm already on the 3rd restart.
    Anyone else see this?
    Details: LR 1.1 on Mac OS 10.4.10, 4-core Mac Pro, images are a mix of JPG from a pocket camera and NEF from a Nikon D40. I don't think it is related to the specific images, as it strikes apparently at random, and after exit and restart, I can crop that same photo, but a different one will eventually cause the same problem again.

    Sean, thanks for the Return key tip. I knew about that at one point, but lately I was trying to use Enter (the one on the numeric keypad, at the very lower right corner of the keyboard, which is really easy to hit with my thumb even when my hand is on the mouse! And Enter doesn't invoke the crop, so I forgot that Return did). That is a better way.
    I don't see the RE problem on my MacBook, only on my desktop computer, and that one is also experiencing other flakiness (
    metamatt, "missing text / thumbnails / many Lightroom UI elements disappeared" #, 18 Aug 2007 3:08 pm) so I think I'm going to try a complete reinstall there.

  • Cannot open any of my Lightroom catalogs. "Error occurred when trying to change modules."

    Bought a new 2013 Mac Pro and did a new install of Photoshop and Lightroom. Then physically moved my data drives over from Mac Pro (10.8.6), but LR won’t open any of the existing catalogs on the new computer (10.9.5). Followed steps 1-5 at http://helpx.adobe.com/lightroom/kb/error-changing-modules-lightroom.html
    Cannot do step #6 (no access to more than one user at a time).
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    TimOlive wrote:
    LR is also unable to open a small LR catalog it created on the internal Macintoch HD SSD, back when this copy of LR was installed.
    How and where did you create that small catalog? Sorry for the question, but you do have licensed version of LR 5 and you only use it in your old computer? In other words, you do not have a second copy installed on a laptop, do you?
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  • Another "An error occurred when attempting to change modules" error

    Hello all:
    After using Adobe Photoshop Lightroom on Mac OSX trouble free for the past 6 months, I opened up Lightroom today and received the following error: "An error occurred when attempting to change modules." I had not made any changes in between when it worked normally and when the error started to occur. I beleive the last thing I did before this error occurred was to go into the Print Module.
    Other information--I keep all my RAW .NEF files on an external Firewire (800) 750 GB drive. This is on Mac OS X 10.5 running Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 1.3 and also with 1.4.1. I'm running an iMac 20" with dual-core 2.2 Ghz Intel processors and 4 GB of RAM. I have around 25k images total.
    When I noticed this problem, I was on Lightroom 1.3. I immediately upgraded to 1.4.1, which did not solve the problem. I have also tried many suggestions in the forums including uninstalling the application and removing the .plist file.
    I thought I had come up with a solution by creating a new catalog, then importing the former into it. While this seems to work immediately after the import process, as soon as I close it, the problem manifests itself again.
    More details that may or (likely) may not help:
    - Going to the Develop and Print Modules gives me no problems. However, when I click on Library, Slideshow, or Web, I see the error.
    - I upgraded my Mac to the latest patch level after observing this error to no avail.
    So it looks like my choices are to create a new file and reimport every single time, or lose all of the work I've done for the past 6 months on thousands of images.
    Can anyone please help???? I promise to post the solution when we fix this darn thing so others may benefit. I'd be happy to run through any troubleshooting that y'all would suggest outside of switching to a Canon.
    Thanks!!!!
    Matt

    I'd first check for the existence of a file ending in .lock, which should be present when LR is in use, but if it exists when LR is quit, it can cause problems, and should be deleted.
    Please post back your results.

  • I have Lightroom 5 installed on my MacBook Air but when I try to open the program I receive the message "An error occurred when attempting to change modules".  I uninstalled, emptied trash and re-installed but I continue to get the same message.

    I have Lightroom 5 installed on my iMac which I downloaded (uploaded?) to my MacBook Air (via wi-fi) but unlike the iMac, I'm unable to use the program on the MacBook Air.  When I open the program on the iMac and click 'file', (as people using the program would know) there are 21 options - import pics, export, etc, etc - however, in the version on the MacBook Air, opening 'file' gives me four options - New Catalogue, Open Catalogue, Page Setup and Printer - and with that comes the pop-up message "An error occurred when attempting to change modules".  Any ideas please?

    A forum thread from 3 years ago talking about LR 1.x which had this problem seems to need permissions fixed or new folders created with the corrected permissions.  You might try doing a repair permissions for your user and/or run LR as an administrator user.  I am a PC person so cannot tell you exactly how to do that.
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  • An error occurred when attempting to change modules.--when i log in as a guest program works fine but when i log in onb my account that pops up

    An error occurred when attempting to change modules. this comes up on my account on my mac but not when guest account  ?

    I fixed the problem myself, no response in chat nor phone (1 hour in hold an no answer) here's the link, step # 5 saved me! Here's the link seems to be a very common problem, hope it works for you! Error changing modules | Lightroom

  • Lightroom 4: An error occurred when attempting to change modules.

    I downloaded Lightroom 4 a few days ago and installed it on my MacBook Pro. Everything worked great. I thought it would overwrite Lightroom 3, but it didn't. So Lightroom 3 is still installed, but I haven't opened it since I installed Lightroom 4.
    I downloaded Lightroom 4.3 this morning and installed it on the same MacBook Pro.  Using my MacBook Pro and a second monitor, I opened Lightroom 4.3 and worked on some photos. Everything worked great.
    Then I began watching a slideshow in the Lightroom 4.3 slideshow module on the second monitor with my MacBook Pro in the library module. During the slideshow I clicked on the slideshow module on my MacBook Pro and got this error message:
    An error occurred when attempting to change modules.
    Now I can’t get into the slideshow module. I just get the error message.
    I moved the preferences file to the trash and reopened Lightroom 4 but lost color labels, so I put it back in the preferences folder.
    Thanks for your help

    I called Adobe and let them fiddle online with Lightroom on my MacBook Pro. The Adobe tech claims I have a corrupt permissions file. He told me to contact Apple and have them rebuild my permissions file.
    When I contacted Apple, the tech said to startup my MackBook Pro with the option key held down until the first screen appears. Then click on: Recovery HD, arrow, Language, Disk Utility, Macintosh HD, Repair Disk Permissions.
    I did this three times, but some permissions were not repaired. Another Apple tech then suggested I bring my MackBook Pro to a Macintosh authorized repair shop, and have them repair my permissions file. I asked if I can buy Norton Utilities or a similar program and do it myself. The Apple tech said yes, but an authorized repair person will know which permissions to repair and which ones not to touch.
    Unless someone on this forum can tell me how to do this repair myself, I’ll get it repaired next week. And, I’ll post the results as soon as I can.

  • An error occurred when attempting to change modules Lightroom 5 CC

    I've seen other users pose this question but haven't seen any solutions that work for me.  I get the error: "An error occurred when attempting to change modules" when I open up Lightroom 5 on one user, but on another user it opens up fine.  I've tried moving and trashing preferences, uninstalling and reinstalling the program.  It's the same whether I open an existing catalog or try to open Lightroom while creating a new project.  Any help would be greatly appreciated.  This occured after updating to Mavericks on a 2011 iMac.  All other Creative Cloud apps seem to have installed just fine.

    Hi 99jon,
    Many thanks for that. Had been going through this list yesterday and now again today:
    Ref  Solution 1: Lightroom is at its latest update
    Ref  Solution 2: It's interesting how I cannot find the Preferences file anywhere on my mac. (new mac pro, OS 10/9.2) . . .
    Ref  Solution 3: Lightroom doesn't allow me to do anything after the error message appears
    Ref  Solution 4: don't have any Nik Software plug-ins
    Ref  Solution 5: checked permissions and changed all to "Read & Write" - makes no difference
    Ref  Solution 6: I don't have a different user account on my mac.
    Not sure what else to do.

  • An error occurred when attempting to change modules.

    Loaded LR on my iMac, tried to copy & use a catalogue from W7 P/C. Now get "An error occurred when attempting to change modules."  when opening LR. Tried a variety of on-line suggestions, HELP. NB too much hassle with all the other apps to start a new user with such as Adobe and Microsoft.
    George

    Hi, I¹ve been through it again to ensure I¹ve not forgot things. Completely
    removed Lightroom and all files I can find, etc and reloaded. Some tedious
    result. Step 6 is too time consuming at the moment for me, too many things
    on the go since I¹m about to go on holiday and on return I shall need
    Lightroom on this iMac. Any clues? This iMac had Mavericks from new,
    uploaded to Yosemite and then loaded Photoshop CC, Lightroom etc and get
    this damned problem.
    Reading around the web I¹m not the only one with this issue, to suggest a
    new user a/c is a soft option without resolving the issue.
    I hope an expert from Adobe can resolve this,
    Regards, George (retired IT Manager and IT Systems Project Manager)

  • An error occurred when attempting to change modules. message after my regist numb?

    after I put my regist number appears this message= An error occurred when attempting to change modules.
    and I cannot use my lightroom
    What to do?

    http://helpx.adobe.com/lightroom/kb/error-changing-modules-lightroom.html

  • I have a mac, and am trying to install lightroom 3.6, everything says it has installed ok, but when trying to open I get this message...An error occurred when attempting to change modules.

    anybody have any idea?

    https://forums.adobe.com/search.jspa?q=error+occurred+when+attempting+to+change+modules&pl ace=%2Fplaces%2F1383621&depth=…

  • ???  I just installed Lightroom 5 from Amazon for my Mac with 10.10.1 software.  When I open it I get: "An error occurred when attempting to change modules".  It won't import photos and has no side panels under Library.  What should I do?

    I just installed Lightroom 5 from Amazon for my Mac with 10.10.1 software.  When I open it I get: "An error occurred when attempting to change modules".  It won't import photos and has no side panels under Library.  What should I do?

    I Nearly bought from Amazon too but I found a thread from Adobe stating that the only recognized outlet for lightoom is themselves and other outlets serial numbers will not be guaranteed.
    THat at was sufficient for me to buy direct from Adobe, hope you get it sorted.

  • Encountered an error when attempting to open Lightroom for the first time. Went to Lightroom Help and searched for the error "An error occurred when attempting to change modules". Non of the solutions helped. what now?

    Encountered an error when attempting to open Lightroom for the first time. Went to Lightroom Help and searched for the error "An error occurred when attempting to change modules". Non of the solutions helped. What now?

    I am getting this error message as well. I have just downloaded Lightroom recently. I try to click on Lightroom / preferences....and nothing happens. I tried to uninstall and it is greyed out so I can't do that either. Suggestions? Please help?

  • I Just installed Crative Cloud Lightroom try-version but when i open the program it say "An error occurred when attempting to change modules." ?

    I Just installed Crative Cloud Lightroom try-version but when i open the program it say "An error occurred when attempting to change modules." ?

    Try giving permission to Lightroom folder under
    /Users/[user name]/Library/Application Support/Adobe
    Steps
    Click on Finder and on the menu bar ( top side the of the screen) click on Go > Go to,folder
    In the window type exactly ~/Library and click on Go
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    Click on + add your current user name and administrator if not added
    Then give Read and Write permission for Admin, system, everyone and (your user name)
    Click on gear icon and choose apply to enclosed item
    Then Click on Lock
    Launch Lightroom and check.

  • I have cc but lights room is coming up with a error ,An error occurred when attempting to change modules. can you help please

    i have cc but lights room is coming up with  ,An error occurred when attempting to change modules. can you help please

    Error changing modules | Lightroom
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