Lightroom 1.4 Catalog errors

[transcape5]

Yesterday I created a catalog with 143 CR2 files. As I started scrolling through the preview I would randomly get the error in the first screen shot below but it would let me continue when I switched to another image that's already been previewed. I continued to do some editing until LR crashed - 2nd screen shot.

I'm now unable to open that catalog with the editing that I've done. I'm pretty new to using LR and wonder if the catalog can be repaired, recovered, etc., much like a database? Am I hitting some kind of memory/performance issue? I know you guys work with catalogs much larger than this.

Any tips or advice would be much appreciated!

[swampler]

First one looks like an out of memory error (or something to do with memory).

I have Lightroom set up to backup up the catalog weekly (may be the default?). In this case, you could use the latest back up of the catalog. I don't know if you can repair one or not. You might check the Adobe LR forums.

What's your CPU speed, amount of memory, and free hard drive space (it defaults to putting the catalog on your Windows drive, usually the C drive)? LR has pretty high requirements, I believe.

[tomrock]

That's a pretty old version of LR -- it's worth upgrading to 2.x.

The out of memory problem was common and may have been fixed in a 1.4.x release if you could still find it.

[swampler]

Originally Posted by tomrock

The out of memory problem was common and may have been fixed in a 1.4.x release if you could still find it.

It's 1.4.1...the latest pre- 2.x version.

[transcape5]

Thanks, Steve and Tom, for the input. It doesn't sound like you've encountered this error with large catalogs I take it.

Steve - Yes, I have that default backup but this catalog was just created a few hours before it crashed. This machine has a 3.5GB of RAM, 150GB of free space on the C drive and running at 2.93GHz. I can run LR, CS3 and a bunch of other stuff with no previous problems. I've tried restarting and running with just LR, create a new catalog with the same import files and still no luck. I saw the option to Relaunch and Optimize so I'll give that a shot. Maybe try importing less and see...