Lightroom 5 Issues (Importing)

Maybe Lightroom knows I hate it so it's giving me problems. Anyway, I can't seem to import. I've been to the Adobe TV, Learn Lightroom 5 site but I'm not getting the same screen they do when I open it up. First I get a warning box telling me an error occurred when changing modules so I click OK since that's the only option. Lightroom5 opens and my desktop looks like the second attachment. I don't get the left or right side panel and no option to import. Help

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What Operating System are you using?

I you are using Windows, try pressing Ctl-Shift-I, with a Mac Cmd-Shift-I, and see what happens.

I've never seen that error screen, not sure what the malfunction might be!

Mac 10.9. I'll try the Cmd-Shift-I

nothing with the Cmd-Shift-I

Could it be that I'm on 10.9 and the Adobe site lists system requirements up to 10.8? Shot in the dark here

I'm not a Mac user, so I don't have a clue! I'd check with Adobe and Mac support!

tonylong wrote in post #16493220
I'm not a Mac user, so I don't have a clue! I'd check with Adobe and Mac support!

Yeah, I just signed up over there. My user name is Stupid Noob if anyone wants to say hi.

Try renaming the preference file to ".OLD".

Well I got it to work but I'm not really sure how I did it. I trashed Lightroom then restarted. Then I went back to the cloud but it wouldn't let me redownload it. I guess it still thought I had it. So I went to Time Machine to the previous day. Dragged Lightroom to the desk top. Not sure why I thought to do that but it worked. I open Lightroom from the desk top and it opened just fine. I put it back in the Applications folder, reopened it and it still worked. Still works today. Go figure

Rick