Problems with a corrupt Lightroom 4.4 catalogue

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I have just recovered from a corrupted catalogue in Lightroom4.4 (LR4.4). I have recently upgraded from Version 3 of Lightroom (LR3). I run a windows 7 Home 64 bit PC.

 

My photos are on a local disk (G:). I have a system of cloning my discs to an external hard drive using Folderclone which runs automatically at certain times of the day. I have been using folderclone for ages and on this

system for almost exactly a year since I reinstalled Windows 7. Folderclone was running - cloning the G drive - at the time the problem occurred. Both it and LR4.4 highlighted disc problems. Under LR3 I have run both at the same time but had to cease photo-editing

as it was so slow (but obviously safe!).

 

I have just returned from a long holiday on 8 April and have applied 13 windows updates since 10 April, 5 of them on 12 April (IE10, MS Keyboard software update released Dec 2012, Nvidia

HD Audio device update released July 2012, Nvidia driver update for Geforce GTX 560Ti and Platform update KB2670838).

Since applying the 12 April updates, every time I boot up I have had Disk checks run on my C drive (SSD) and H drive (local but not the same physical disc as the G drive) but

no errors have been highlighted. This just wasn't happening before the Windows updates.

 

It looks to me like the two programs have tried to access the same information and something has become corrupted as a result. Obviously this shouldn't happen and I would expect Windows to prevent it. However it didn't.

The obvious questions are about a) Windows itself and the recent updates, b)

LR4.4 as there have been instances of catalogue corruption being reported.

 

I would be grateful if you could provide any information on this problem (ie are there are any known issues which would cast light on why this problem occurred) and what I can do to prevent a re-occurrence. I am backing

up the LR4.4 catalogue more frequently than I would normally in the meantime.

 

I have also asked for information from the Adobe Lightroom forum.

 

Thanks.

 

 

 

 

 

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