Lightroom crashed and turned into "expired Beta version".

[dippdipp]

When importing from a memory card previously imported in order to restore a few photos accidently erased, Lightroom crashed.
When trying to restart Lightroom this dialog box come up:
"Warning. This Beta version has expired. The application will now quit."
It is a legitimate version upgraded to 3.4 which now has disappeared.
Restarting the PC is tried without success.
Should I try to reinstall Lightroom? Is the catalog lost?

[TNG]

Hi dippdipp, welcome to the forum.

This sounds quite bizarre. Could you open the Control Panel and call up the Add/Remove Programs display and post a screenshot of the section that contains the Adobe products? Looking to see what your system thinks is installed.

[dippdipp]

For some reason Lightroom or parts of it must have uninstalled itself.
I reinstalled the program and downloaded the latest upgrade, and now everything is working ok. Even the catalog is ok.

I don't know why this could happen, but I am so happy this didn't give me more trouble.

Thanks.

John

[TNG]

Well, that was going to be my recommendation anyway, but you beat me to it!

Glad it's sorted!