[Photos are not opening (program freezes on "loading photo"]

I'm using the newest version of the app and all my computer software is up to date on windows 10. I've opened these types of files (CR2) several times in the past and now for some reason my computer is working extremely hard to try to load 1 photo at a time, yet it is still not loading. I've tried to hard reset the app itself and rebooting the computer. Any other suggestions? Any help is appreciated. I do have a nvidia graphics card, but no capture one so i shouldn't fall into the group that was having trouble with that. 

[In-painting brush not doing anything??]

I have selected the inpainting brush and clicked and dragged over several portions of the image, then a loading bar shows up and disappears when loaded. However, nothing in the slightest changes about the image. There is no red indicating the area where i have clicked and dragged as i have seen in the tutorial videos. Any help would be great. Thanks. This is a raw image that I have developed and am further processing.