Luminar AI is my favorite photo editing app, but it stopped working on my iMac after I updated the OS to Ventura 13.0. It just crashed on launch.
A little research led me to their support app, which provided the following solutions. The second one worked for me.
Let’s try restoring from backup:
- Hold down the Option key on your keyboard and start Luminar. Keep holding Option until you see a window with a list of available backups appear.
- Select a backup that has been created prior to when you encountered the issue with the library and click Restore from Backup.
When that didn’t help:
Please, try this instead:
- Make sure Luminarᴬᴵ is closed.
- Locate your Luminar AI Catalog folder. The default location is %username%\Pictures. If you specified a custom location, search your custom location.
- Rename Luminar AI Catalog folder as well as the Luminar AI Catalog.luminarai file inside this folder.
[In my case “Luminar” was spelled “Lminar.” I inserted the missing “U”.]
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Open Finder.
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Navigate to Applications > Utilities > launch Terminal.
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Paste the following string into the Terminal window: defaults delete com.skylum.luminarai
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Press Enter on your keyboard and close Terminal.
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Launch Luminarᴬᴵ. Go through the initial setup. Leave the location of the catalog at the default (in the Pictures folder). Here’s a video tutorial that can guide you: Loom | Free Screen & Video Recording Software | Loom
This worked for me.