Crash at startup about darktable HOT 3 CLOSED

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Did you force-quit the program (i.e. from Task Manager)? Given that the crash is happening in dt_database_show_error, you probably have a corrupted library database.

Look in C:\Users\[username]\AppData\Local\darktable to see what backups are available (darktable backs up its database every so often, as well as every time you update to a new release). These will be called .db-snp- and .db-pre-. Rename library.db to library.db.bak and copy the newest library.db-* to library.db. Do the same for data.db. Then try running darktable again.

You'll need to re-import any images you imported after the time the backup was made, but unless you turned off sidecar writes, re-importing them will also restore your edits.

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The log shows that this is the same problem that was raised in #16023 and already fixed in #16070, so the current development code does not crash. The crash occurred when trying to delete the database lock file when starting darktable. Therefore, you do not have to update to the development version, it is enough to manually delete this lock file. If you worked with the default library, you need to enter %LOCALAPPDATA%\darktable in the path field of File Explorer and delete the files with the .lock extension in this folder.

Since this bug has already been fixed, I'm closing the issue, but if you need any more help with this situation, feel free to chat further in this issue.

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