u/TheAnt06

Been wracking my brain on this doing research for the past few weeks. My 10-year-old TV shit the bed a few weeks ago and I've been using an even older TV as a backup. I hate the backup and I'm trying to replace as soon as possible.

What I'm looking for:

75" TV - MiniLED Budget ~$1500

I'm currently between the TCL QM8K, QM7L, and Hisense U7.

The room the TV in is naturally bright and my current and past TV's have had some pretty heavy reflections. It's been almost impossible for me to watch darker shows during the daytime.

This has been a relatively new issue I've been experiencing, it started about a month and a half ago. I had updated Lightroom to the most recent version and it decided that no, I will no longer open catalogs.

This has been such a pain because I can't access a lot of catalogs that I use pretty regularly. I can click the app icon to open it, but as soon as it starts opening - it crashes out and freezes and I have to force quit.

The first time it happened, my catalog had nearly 300,000 photos in it - so I broke all of those up into much smaller catalogs, by year and what type of work it is. That alleviated issues with a bunch of catalogs - but a new one that I created, which is just random photography (has maybe 6,000 photos in it) just started experiencing the same issue again. Lightroom crashes upon attempting to open it.

I have to go in and remove the .lock file, that usually does the trick, but this specific catalog is refusing to work again - even after clearing it out.

Has anyone experienced this issue and what kind of solutions have you found?

Tech Specs:

2021 M1 iMac running MacOS 26.5.2, 16GB RAM Lighroom Classic (up to date)