Right something has gone to cock with my Lightroom, I was exporting an image to Silver Efex 2 when my laptop froze and then blue screen of deathed on me.
After booting back up when I try and edit that same image Lightroom crashs, but only if I try that image any other it work's fine.
I have re-named and moved the original file to another folder, imported it again and the same thing happens.
And what is really weird is that even if I import the a back-up file from another hard disk, which I had already made prior to the initial import, this also crash's Lightroom.
Is this something to do with the catalogue? Do I need to import an older back-up catalogue?
So, I created a new catalog on a separate disk drive and then pointed Lightroom’s import dialog box at my existing image tree and had it copy and import all the image files it could find. As you might expect, this wasn’t a quick process. In fact, I think I watched a big chunk of Spiderman 3 on the overhead monitors as Lightroom churned away. But when it was all over, I had my images in a brand new library, but with all their existing metadata and develop settings in place. I was even pleasantly surprised to find that my snapshots came across in the XMP metadata. The only thing I lost in the rebuild was the history of development edit steps for each image. Since I had the snapshots and the final developed results, however, I was pretty happy.
Hey Jase, you on mac or pc? I never have a problem on my Mac but on my PC Nik software would crash often, the solution that I found for my problem is to open silver efex and go to setting on the bottom left of the screen and turn off GPU processing. This tells silver efex to not use the graphics card to help with processing. I haven't had it crash since changing that setting. This seems like a long shot for your problem but thought that i would mention it.
@jsorensenart PC, to be honest it has never, ever happened before and I use Silver Efex a lot. If it keeps happening I will look into that though, cheers man
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http://www.oreillynet.com/digitalmedia/blog/2007/09/a_total_lightroom_database_reb.html
So, I created a new catalog on a separate disk drive and then pointed Lightroom’s import dialog box at my existing image tree and had it copy and import all the image files it could find. As you might expect, this wasn’t a quick process. In fact, I think I watched a big chunk of Spiderman 3 on the overhead monitors as Lightroom churned away. But when it was all over, I had my images in a brand new library, but with all their existing metadata and develop settings in place. I was even pleasantly surprised to find that my snapshots came across in the XMP metadata. The only thing I lost in the rebuild was the history of development edit steps for each image. Since I had the snapshots and the final developed results, however, I was pretty happy.
http://www.thenomadicphotographer.com/2007/12/23/the-problem-lightroom-catalog-corruption/
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