I'm getting started with a downloaded Lightroom which I then paid for and entered the 6x4 digit registration code. I upgraded to 1.2, again with downloads. The software seemed to work fine. I was doing the LL Tutorial, along with sucking in photos. All was copacetic.
Then, yesterday while moving image files around on external disks to create some semblance of order outside Lightroom à la the tutorial's suggestion to work out directory structures before sealing my fate in Lightroom's concrete boots :-) something happened (I don't know what or why) and I got the following popup:
"Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime Error.
This application has requested the Runtime to terminate in an unusal way.
Please contact the application support team for more information."
I can no longer get into Lightroom nor, for that matter, can I save images with my screen capture program, quite a different program but which apparently uses the same resources.
I've searched the web for explanations of "Runtime errors" but learn the popup usually provides more information, like a Runtime Error code. No such luck.
I would appreciate any thoughts on the problem. Although I've looked through the LR crash stories on this Forum I saw nothing which seemed appropriate.
Many thanks.