Since several months I am trying to get to the bottom of why Photolab 2 & 3 on my Windows 10 PC crashes. Before I go into the detail here a quick description of the setup I have. Firstly all images are copied to my MacBook Pro (Catalina) and edited in Photolab 3. Occasionally I use custom DCP Profiles for my Nikon D200 and D850. After some time when the MacBook Pro hasn’t got any hard-drive space anymore the sub-directories (including all sidecar files) are copied to the Windows 10 Pro PC.
As mention before Photolab 2 & 3 crashes now on opening the program on the Windows 10 PC every time. Below a extract of the crash report XML file:
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-<![CDATA[System.ComponentModel.Composition.CompositionException: The composition produced a single composition error. The root cause is provided below. Review the CompositionException.Errors property for more detailed information.
- Path is invalid. Path cannot start with ‘/’
Resulting in: An exception occurred while trying to create an instance of type ‘Dop.Correction.ColorRendering.DCP.ColorRenderingDcpProfilesCollection’.
Renaming the folder where the images are stored would not solve the crash of Photolab 2 & 3 on startup.
By coincident I found that when logging in with a different user in Windows 10 I was able to start Photolab 2 & 3 again. Until I again click on a folder with images which have a DCP Profile assigned to it, then Photolab 2 & 3 crashes again. Looking into the dxo sidecar file I find a path to a DCP Profile which obviously does not exist on the Windows 10 PC.
Overrides = {
ColorRenderingActive = true,
ColorRenderingDCPProfile = “/Users/xyz/Pictures/2019/2019-04-29 D850 Test/Nikon D850.dcp”,
ColorRenderingType = “DCP”,
ContrastControlGroupActive = false,
ContrastEnhancementActive = false,
},
Although I can copy the DCP Profile from the MacBook Pro to the Windows 10 PC I have no way of changing the image to the new DCP Profile path before Photolab 2 & 3 crashes.
Any help would be much appreciated.