Snake79
Prominent Member
I've been having problems with Lightroom Classic where images in the library become corrupted when viewed in the develop module. These corruptions are random as they are appearing on .cr2 raw files as well as .tif and. psd files that are included in the lightroom catalog. This has been occuring for a number of weeks now and only started after upgrading my PC from Windows 7 to Windows 10 in December. I had been using Lightroom on Windows 7 for years and I have never had this problem before. The corruption is permanent as I have opened them in Photoshop and they show the damage to the image. I do have an external hard drive where everything is backed up so the files are not entirely lost.
I've ruled out corrupt SD cards and card reader as it happening to files that I imported years ago and have worked on no problem. I've also ruled out damaged or failing hard disks as this is happening on multiple drives, all of which come back clean when running a disk health checks with different software. I've ran a virus scan across the whole system including all drives which comes back clean too. I've run a memory test which has not found any issues either, although that was a quick check and I plan on doing an extended test tonight.
Initially I thought it was Lightroom that was damaging the files however after doing some research on this I understand Lightroom does not alter the raw files, but changes information in the catalog which is then linked to the file, but the file remains untouched. Another possible option is starting a new catalog, that might work.
If the extended memory test is negative I am out of possible causes and I cannot continue working like this knowing it could happen again at any time. It may be something that is running alongside Lightroom that is interfering so I may turn off all non essential start-up and background tasks. The back-up is run once a week on start up which I let finish before doing any work in Lightroom so I don't think that is the cause. It's very frustrating as I built my PC to be a photo/video editing workstation.
I'm just wondering if anyone else has had a similar issue or knows how to fix it barring a complete system re-install?
I've ruled out corrupt SD cards and card reader as it happening to files that I imported years ago and have worked on no problem. I've also ruled out damaged or failing hard disks as this is happening on multiple drives, all of which come back clean when running a disk health checks with different software. I've ran a virus scan across the whole system including all drives which comes back clean too. I've run a memory test which has not found any issues either, although that was a quick check and I plan on doing an extended test tonight.
Initially I thought it was Lightroom that was damaging the files however after doing some research on this I understand Lightroom does not alter the raw files, but changes information in the catalog which is then linked to the file, but the file remains untouched. Another possible option is starting a new catalog, that might work.
If the extended memory test is negative I am out of possible causes and I cannot continue working like this knowing it could happen again at any time. It may be something that is running alongside Lightroom that is interfering so I may turn off all non essential start-up and background tasks. The back-up is run once a week on start up which I let finish before doing any work in Lightroom so I don't think that is the cause. It's very frustrating as I built my PC to be a photo/video editing workstation.
I'm just wondering if anyone else has had a similar issue or knows how to fix it barring a complete system re-install?