I'll show you not valid

September 23, 2009 6:34 PM

Lightroom is not cooperating with my external hard drive.

Here is my tale of woe.

Windows XP, SP3, Lightroom 2.5.

External hard drive starts acting funny. Round here we expect hard drive failure, so I order a new drive and when it arrives copy the backup onto the new drive. The new drive has the same drive letter as the old one, but not the same name.

When I try to open a catalog by double-clicking on the .lrcat file I get: "The temporary file path is not valid. Lightroom cannot start." The catalogs seem to be fine, as when I open lightroom directly, not by clicking the .lrcat file, catalogs look normal. If I copy the lrcat file to my internal hard drive it opens. If I create a new catalog on the external drive I get the same problem. If I create a new .lrcat file on the internal hard drive it behaves normally.

I have tried removing lightroom and reinstalling, but it did not ask for a serial number on the re-install so I am guessing there is something in the registry which did not get wiped out, but I am not sure.

I am sure I am pretty confused.

posted by shothotbot to Computers & Internet (1 answer total)

It sounds a bit like it's trying to put the tempfiles on the extern drive rather than in the normal windows temp directory, but as for how to fix this i'm sadly clueless.
posted by beerbajay at 10:56 PM on October 12, 2009