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...
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