Lightroom Classic, Big Troubles; What Happened? What I Had To Do To Figure Out What Happened? What Lessons Were Learned

This was one of the images I made in between the time of my last catalog backup and when myLightroom catalog became corrupted. After restoring it with an older, backup catalog, I hadto find all the images I had made, synchronize the folders and reimport them otherwise the files would have been on my hard drive but LR would not known they were there. (click to enlarge)Fujifilm X100VI; 1/35th sec. @ f/8; ISO 2500I use Lightroom Classic (LR) just about every day. Whether it is to import a series of photographs I made that day, editing image files I have already imported or going back through my catalog and finding images from years ago, it is a vital part of my photographic life that I count on continuously. But all was not rosy with LR the other day. It broke, crashed repeatedly, just stopped working and I didn’t know why. Here is the story of what happened, how I fixed it and the lessons I learned.The other morning, after using LR for a couple of hours (and everyday previously for…