Lightroom Preview Cache Error. Share Photo Tips With People Who Love Photography As Much As You Do. Navigate to the folder that contains your Lightroom catalog. 11172016 Depending on your operating system use Windows Explorer or Finder to open the folder that contains your catalog. How do I clear the cache in Lightroom.
How do I clear the cache in Lightroom. Locate and open the Catalog-name Previews. When this message pops up the only way for me to continue working is to close out of LR and delete the preview cache folder. This is a clear indicator that a purge might be in order. To delete the preview cache do this. So keep them together.
Lightroom will attempt to fix this problem the next time it launches.
The preview cache name ends with PreviewsLRDATA and should be deleted. Lightroom displays gray thumbnails or the error. The most obvious is Lightroom showing an error message telling you that its corrupted Lightroom encountered an error when reading its preview cache and needs to quit or that it tried to repair it unsuccessfully. Share Photo Tips With People Who Love Photography As Much As You Do. I have imported my best shoot and now cant process the photos. Look for a new folder with the extensionlrdata and delete that folder ONLY that specific folder.