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my catalog is broken

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My catalog crashed as I was relinking to files I had moved. It would open OK in develop mode, but as soon as I clicked on the library it would immediately crash.

I tried verifying, it said that the catalog was OK.

I created a new catalog, and imported the old one, and it worked.... 

Sort of.

Now my folder hierarchy is broken. It's as if it took all of my folders, dumped the subfolders onto the floor, and then threw out the folders.

I've spent weeks creating this system and I'm pretty upset about this. Can it be fixed?

If I'm going to have to reimport everything and effectively start over, then how is this considered a professional product? I left LR because C1 is clearly superior. But only if it works.

 

Any thoughts?

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    Got Backups?  I'd look to my system backups and try to restore to just before things went haywire, e.g. to the state of your catalog before you tried relinking the files.

    And why did you need to relink files?

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    Thanks for your reply!

    Backups are part of the mystery. I can't even find them on my Time Machine backups... (and I do back it up when I close).

    What I ended up doing is importing my old (presumably corrupt) catalog into a new one. THAT worked, sort of. Now my folder structure is a mess. It's like C1 dumped all of the subfolders out onto the floor.  I've sent in a request and am waiting for their reply.

    As to WHY? Lately I've been doing a lot of focus stacking shots with an A7RIV shooting RAW, which is quickly filling up my drive. My plan was to move them to my NAS drive, and relink to them in C1. I've heard  that Big Sur and Synology are having issues, and this may be part of what screwed up my catalog. So I went to Costco and got an 8TB USB drive and moved the files I was working with to it.

    Since then I've been rearranging folders (at least for a project I'm doing now) with no issues.

    If anyone can confirm or deny that my Synology drive may have been the source of my problem I'd appreciate it.  With hard drives as cheap as they are I'm happy to retire the synology to deep archive...

     

     

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