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I will try to compare LR4 and LR5 libraries and try to determine. I thing that I did not edited old photos with LR5, in any case I would be small changes I can lost it….

Yes I use Publish services to flikr, in fact this is my next step, imagine if I would be able to re-link my published photos in case that I need to publish again.

But by the moment I am more than glad to have my library ok again. Ok, great. That will determine which one we choose to be the source vs.

And I was able to get most of them. Now I am doing an exhaustive check, and I will maintain LR4 application and library some more time on my computer, but this will take time….

Well done Daniel. There was one change between LR3 and LR4 that flags became global instead of local. Photos that were flagged in a collection are still accessible from the right-click menu for that collection. Hi… just found this thread in I have various Hard Drives spinning at the ready to access files.

So I get the C drive D drive etc. I even have several in FAT Hi Victoria. Thanks for the post — very helpful. I have one potentially very daft question. In accordance with the terms of the license, I understand you can use one copy of LR on up to two computers.

So when you download LR from the Adobe site for use on your second computer does it simply allow you to do so without a prompt for payment? The reason I ask is I currently have LR5 on my laptop but am purchasing a mac very soon. So you can download the 5. Hi Victoria, I just did exactly what Steve was talking about. I have gone to the adobe website to download LR5 onto my new Mac and it is prompting me that I need to buy or try there is no download or redownload button. You can still download LR5 and reinstall it with your existing serial number.

I asked the the forum but I will here as well. I transferred from old mac to new mac with maverick. L4R looked fine and everything is there. Hi Catherine. If not, that would confirm a permissions issue, which is easily fixed.

I followed your instructions for transfer and everything went perfectly. This was despite having to move from LR v3. Moving LR was the really scary bit of the whole move, but actually went a lot easier than I could have imagined.

The key is to have a logical hierarchy of pictures on your PC before moving. I used an old 1tB external USB2 drive for the transfer and moved 58, pictures without issue. Thank you. Excellent article. Is it possible to install LR5 on the new computer and move the LR4 catalog to LR5 — or upgrade the old computer first and then move it? Hi Joe. Yes, either will work. That way if something goes wrong, you only have to go back a step rather than starting over.

Also, the LR5 catalog upgrade looks for the original files to grab some extra metadata, and if you do it at the same time as moving to the new computer, it might not be able to find them. Thanks you so much!!! I messed things up completely during relinking, but this helped me fix things…. When i do, the catalog is blank. Anything I can do i about this — in the meantime i will get the trial of LR3 and then open catalog there and upgrade.

The upgrade should work correctly. It took me a lot of ferreting around to find out that all I had to do to get LR onto the second computer was to log on to my Adobe account and download. Adobe support gave me completely erroneous information, and told me that I had to inactivate the subscription on the first machine.

Sorry to hear you had so much hassle John. The only hassle was with Adobe. As always I took great comfort from having your clear instructions by my side.

You may not fully appreciate how much we depend on you. I just bought a new computer and am having issues with transferring my Lightroom Catalog over. When I start from scratch on new computer and re-import images from E drive, thereby building a new catalog, I can no longer see any of my soft proofs.

I must be doing something wrong that is quite simple to change? Or, I could just ignore the Softproofs, being that I have written down what I have changed on them. Maybe I am missing other things also, but never checked to see if flags. Hi Scott. So I decided to delete all my files in my Working Files folder on new computer and re-copy them over from my old computer.

I am going to also re-copy and move the Lightroom 5. Do I need to transfer the Lightroom 4 catalog as well as the Lightroom 5 catalog?

Mac is dead. All my photos are on external drives ,2 of the. Photo 1 and photo 2 should be formatted to fat Plus I need to add a photo 3 a new one Thank you Ron. Check step 6 above. So I am changing from a Mac to a PC. I have all my photos and the catalogs on external hard drives formatted for Mac that are not currently PC compatible.

The disk space it takes up is about 6tb. Thanks for your tip about HFS. I understand that these operating systems have come a long way in therms of communication. So should I plan to format my disks to a pc native drive format after the data is backed up on a PC? Alos which is faster and more seemless? FAT32 is a pretty old file system and not without its issues.

I just purchased Adobe Lightroom 5. I currently have a PC and will soon be getting a Mac. Am I safe to do this as long as I have it installed only on one computer at a time? The license is cross-platform and allows you to install it on 2 machines for your own use at any one time.

You may be my only chance! Up until recently I used Lightroom 4 on PC laptop for all my editing and i have photos in that catalog. I then got a Mac desktop, upgraded to Lightroom 5 and someone I know kindly installed all my presets. All is going well up until now. I now need to urgently transfer my catalog of photos over to my Mac. Should the files be on my desktop hard drive and if so where do I put them on a mac? I hope I am making sense. I am so confused.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Hi Trisha. Did you get the hang of the hierarchy bit? The photos can stay on the Capsule just fine. It can go wherever you like. By default they go in a Lightroom folder that you create inside the Mac Pictures folder, but you can store it wherever you fancy. Thanks Victoria for such a quick reply. I get what you mean about the catalog on the Hard drive so I copied the catalog.

When I tried to open the catalog it said I had to upgrade and then only photos were shown instead of When I opened the preview lrdata file no photos were present. All my presets have been disabled too in develop mode.

I prob should get someone in to do this for me before I make any more silly mistakes. Still got the old machine up and running? That seems to have worked and all my presets are now working again. Thank you so much. You are amazing! All the files are missing so I guess my punishment for total lack of hierarchy is to find their file path one by one.

Should only take until next week!! Thanks again. Great job! Just one little dilemma left to solve. I have managed to link most files but I now suspect that I have created two catalogs if that makes sense. I have all the photos from my old PC transferred but the photos I have taken since I started using my Mac are no longer in my Lightroom.

Does that make any sense to you at all. Thanks in advance. I really appreciate any help. No trouble, all you need to do is merge those catalogs. Back them all up before you continue. In the next dialog, press OK and all of the settings will be copied into the open catalog.

Thanks Victoria. I find the file but nothing appears to happen. Thanks again for the help. Well done! Hi Victoria, I have been reading up on your post and its very informative. I apologise if this seems a little out of topic with the current post, however I stumbled upon this post because of the file links. I am just trying to start up using lightroom and am trying to set up my files so that only my original photos are in the external harddrive.

I intend to keep my lightroom catalog file in dropbox where it can be synced. Is there any way I can set up the directory links to the external harddrive, without having to relink it everytime i swap out the external drive.

From my understanding the directory names for mac os are slightly diffrent from windows, in that the external drive lettering is dropped e. Thanks in advance and sorry if this is not relevant with this topic. Hi Nick. But if you have enough space on your Dropbox account, have you considered using Smart Previews? Then you could work most of the time without the external drive, and just plug the drive in when you need to edit in external editors i.

Photoshop or output top quality files. I am also moving my lighroom catalog and images to DropBox so that I can access the full catalog and pictures from all of my computers and they stay in sync. The entire process looks straightforward thank you. If I move everything to DropBox and open Lightroom on a different computer, will everything continue to sync properly? Thank you! Hi Bobby. Thank you for your helpful website and this article has been just what I was looking for!

I am wondering if there is a way to use this opportunity of reinstalling to make LR run faster. But I am confused when it comes to how to start off fresh but still be able to have access to my previous LR photos. Maybe another way to ask you is, how do I make LR do everything faster?

Thanks again! I read your site when initially setting it up. Hi Leslie, sorry for the delay replying. Are you into the hundreds of thousands yet? What are you finding slow particularly? Thanks so much for replying! My new computer is fast at this point because it has a newer processor, but my old one was very slow to display photos when I would try to click through them using the arrow key.

They start out pixelated and then it would take a few seconds to display without pixelation. Hi Leslie. Aaaaah, is tiny! The biggest known catalog was 1. For future imports, make sure Standard is selected in the File Handling panel of the Import dialog too.

Keeping your catalog on an internal drive is a bit faster than an external drive. Let me know if you have any trouble!

That is funny that I thought that my library was completely out of hand being over 3K photos. I have a retina display, so not sure if that means I have to go to , or if I can choose a different option.

The choices go from to with about 3 choices in between those extremes. Does that make sense? If you always keep the panels open, you might get away with the next size down. Sent from my iPad. Hi Victoria, I hope I am not repeating a question you have previously answered but here goes. I have LR 5. Since I already have LR 5. Victoria: Thanks so much for your writing — they are always clear and to the point. I have been using a PC until now. I keep all my photos and cats on an external raid drive Drobo connected via USB2.

Q1: When the photo count reached K, I saw some slowness, mainly in loading and backup. So, I have started using new catalogs for each year. Should I continue to do that or should I combine all cats into one giant. One big advantage in one big cat is searching is easier. I have also purchased a new Thunderbold Drobo hoping it will be faster. If speed is my top priority, which of these do you recommend? At least then when you need to search, you only have 2 catalogs to look through.

For your new Mac, congratulations, nice machine!!! Is the Mac going to become your primary machine, or do you still need to access the Drobo from Windows too? If so, your Mac will be able to read it. Victoria, thanks for the advice. I am not sure at this time. The new one will be HFS as you suggest.

Q1: Should I merge all catalogs on the old machine and transfer the merged catalog to the Mac or should I transfer all catalogs first then merge? Currently, the old Drobo has been assigned the letter X on the PC. Do I need to worry about this identification when I transfer to the Mac? Q2: I know that there a small number of photos that got duplicated into more than one catalog.

Does this cause a problem on merge? Yes, I understand. Merge first, then transfer. I also see what you say about duplicates. Will so as you suggest.

Will start reading it right away! Victoria, thanks for clearing up a lot of things for me. I went through your steps, but I skipped Step 1 because I thought I was kind of ok with my hierarchy nope, I realise now I just misunderstood. Do you have any suggestions? This is my first time using a Mac after having a PC for years, so I feel totally out of my depth. You might have just gone a little too far. Thanks for your quick reply. Screenshot was perfect. Ok, so Lightroom thinks the Diskstation is offline at the moment.

If you look in Finder, can you see your Diskstation listed as a mounted drive? If not, can you mount it so you can see it in Finder, and then check back to see if Lightroom puts a little colored rectangle next to its name instead of the dark grey one?

Worst case scenario, you might need to right-click on , choose Find Missing Folder and navigate to the folder, and then repeat for , , , etc. Thank you so much again for your reply. Does this mean anything to you? As I said, I know nothing about Macs, so Finder makes no sense to me… yet. Forget it. Do collections need to be dragged across separately, or do they come over with the catalogue?

Prepping for an upgrade to Win8. The photos in the collections are in folders on the hard drive, of course, so the other instructions still apply. Where are the lightroom preferences stored on a macbook pro with the latest OS X Mavericks The Library folder on In Finder, hold down the Opt Alt key while going to the Go menu to make it show up in that menu.

I am able to see my catalogs, but there is a question mark beside them on the left, by their folders, then an exclamation beside each image. When I right click on the image and try to locate it on my external hard drive then it asks if I want to find all other images nearby. When I said yes, it deleted all of my images from that folder!

Do you have any idea what I am doing wrong? Thank you, hopefully that will be the case! I have a wedding I am trying to process! Should I move everything off of it, then format it, then put it back on? Did the move like you said, everything relating to photos, structure and location is fine. How the heck do I find that meta data I suppose and pull that in to the new computer and LR 5?

Hi addwax. If you look in the Metadata panel for a photo that used to be labeled, you should fine the label name is still listed there.

Are you running the latest update? And the latest drivers for your computer, especially the graphics card? And have you tried all the standard stuff like rebooting? Hi victoria, LR 5. Hi Victoria, thanks so much for this awesome tutorial.

Quick question: my wife will be moving to a mac from a PC shortly. She currently has Lightroom 4 but I want to upgrade her to lightroom 5.

Can I buy just an upgrade license or will I need to pay the non-upgrade amount? Also, you suggest doing the transfer and the upgrades as separate steps. Could you tell me a bit more about that in terms of which order and how etc?

Order of transfer vs. Check everything looks ok on the old machine, install LR5 on the new machine and start moving the files.

The rest of the transfer runs as above. Hi, Can you transfer lightroom 3 presets PC to lightroom 3 on a mac. I bought a new computer and its a mac and I want to transfer all of my hundreds of presets. Is this possible? Thanks, Steve. Hi Steve. Yes, the same principles apply as above. Thanks so much for putting this up, just migrating from PC to Mac so this is a lifesaver!

One question before I start: the link in the article re. Would you mind listing them again, or putting up the correct link? Thanks again, Nic. Thanks for letting me know. Did I miss a step? Eh, disregard my last question. So my 27 inch 3. I am doing a clean install of Yosemite. Version before was also just as slow. The computer used to be fast. Will doing all these steps keep my rating number in my catalog when I re install on the new hard drive following all the steps above.

My catalog is about mb and I want to make sure all my ratings move over as I have spend hundreds of hours going through images editing. Any help would be appreciated! Hi Victoria! OK, so…The drive letter has changed for the parent folder. All 65K images are now one big continuous mishmash. The heirharchy I used is no longer visible. How do I get all my photos to show up within their appropriate subfolders so I can find things again??

I think I have one BIG mess on my hands. So if you look in Explorer, can you still find your hierarchy of folders and subfolders somewhere? Yes… the husband actually has been very helpful in upgrading the system… just got into a little trouble transferring the LR stuff. I do believe he did an import because I did notice that some of my edits, etc did not transfer over.

Also… I am have really complicated things because I read somewhere about building previews so i started that running on my computer. Oh my… have it doubled, triple saved everything and clogged up all my memory? We can go back and clean that up. Did you find a backup catalog or the catalog you were previously working on? WHERE can you see a list of all your original work? OK… so sorry….

No worries. Hi Victoria, this site has proved very useful tank you for your comments. I now need your help! I recently migrate my Lightroom 5 from my macbook pro to my new iMac desktop. Everything appears to be working fine but i have lost all the metadata for all the NEF files. This includes al the Keywords, flags, colour labels and most annoyingly all the edits that i did previously. The files that i converted to DNG are fine in terms of the edits i did, they were transferred, as were the colour labels, but the flags are gone.

It sounds like you imported them into a clean catalog instead of transferring your old catalog over. Do you still have access to your MacBook Pro? If so, go back and retrace your steps using the instructions above to transfer the catalog. Yes i do still it with everything on the macbook as it was, so should i delete everything from the iMac and just start again? You might want to check for presets and things like that too.

Am about to get a new desktop and continue using laptop and this was very useful to read. Also comforting as I am wanting to use new machine for professional work first weekend after getting it. Had a little look round your site and really like it. Lovely look and feel, well written and lots of replies to people from yourself with photo of you for that personal touch.

Will be recommending to other photographers that I know. I have small question to ask you. I store all photos on external hard drive. The drive is getting full. I will like to get a new drive to attached to my PC. What do I need to do before and after attaching the new drive. Thank you for your prompt answer. Hi John. Read your migration article— I currently have my LR 5. My photos are in a single folder called My Photos on an external hard drive.

I want to install a mirror set up on my desktop which came with Windows 8. I also have the same LR installed and an assortment of of photos and files—all of which can be deleted. Should I first re-install LR? Then attach my external hard drive and import the MY Pictures library from there? Will I be required to create a second MY Pictures library? I would like to keep everything in one place on my external hard drive.

Which I did back up on another of my internal hard drives. Hi Roy. You can then install LR on both machines, and when you plug in the external drive, just double-click on the catalog file to open it.

There are other options like using Dropbox and junction points, but they get a bit more complicated. In case there are any other dinosaurs out there like me thought you might like to know the LR transfer also works from LR 2.

I have just succesfully completed in a single step a transfer of photos and calalogue etc from PC based LR2 to Mac based LR5 — all without problems. So far at least! Hi, thanks for a VERY helpful article. I just have one question.

I have to reset the work MacBook I am using to factory settings and then reload all my personal files back on to it. I have LR on this MacBook which I would have to take off and put back on again, which all seems a bit of a hassle. But essentially the process is to clear the MacBook of all the work files. Is there a way of not taking the LR package off at all during the reset? I guess not? I use a windows 7 PC for all my Lightroom work and have recently acquired a new laptop to allow me to work remotely also.

Can you help please? Just copy over the installation file from your other computer the dmg file or log into your Adobe. I had no issues until 5. I double click, I select and open, I try transferring again…. Any thoughts? Check the size of the transferred catalog — you might have transferred the default catalog but been using a different one.

Victoria, I was arranging my photos in a better hierarchy, and believe I launched 2 conflicting tasks in LR5 tried to move the same files , I was left with 3 situations:. I appreciate your insight on how to resolve. Oh dear, it does sound like LR got in a bit of a tangle.

And where does LR think they should be? Thanks for responding. I then navigated to the folder s they were in. I had deleted my photos backup just prior to the trouble — doh! Next week I will be receiving a new computer with Windows I am intending to get the update to Lightroom 6 and your new FAQ book to go with it!

Do I have to run the update on my old computer and then transfer it to the new one, or is the update a full version that I could just install on the new computer?

Gordon, based on my recent experience…be aware that LR6 requires a bit machine. I had to fight for a refund about 40 minutes because of that. Hopefully, yours is bit. After some digging on the Adobe site, I ultimately found a link to simply download not buy 5.

Also, note that you may need to find the SN from your original emailed download receipt, as the SN in LR is not complete missing the last 4 digits. Just starting the switch to a new computer, how wonderful to have come across this posting! Should help me get through this scary process! Thank you for this post this is what I needed when our laptop crashed and we had to have it reinstalled.

Luckily I had everything backed up on two external hard rives. I have a lot of Lightroom backup folders dating back about 5 years. Do I need to keep all of them or do I just need to keep the newest one? I usually suggest keeping intermittent ones e. My catalog just finished importing but all of is missing. Can I import it again or will that add everything twice?

Hi There. I love your site! I keep my catalog and all of my photos on an external drive formatted NTFS. Will my Mac convert the files for me? Will I be able to continue building that catalogue using LR6 even though it began as a LR3 catalogue? Do you have any specific suggestions that might help me with this? Thank you very much for your time!! Yep, plugging both drives into your mac and copying them from the NTFS drive to the new external should work fine. And yes, you can install LR6 on the Mac.

Is there anyway of moving it to new mac without having to buy it again?!? If you registered your copy with Adobe, it should be listed in your Adobe account on their website. I have done little work in LR, just cropping some photos and changing the lighting on some, and exported all the results in picture folders.

Do I still need to do all the steps you recommend? I though it might be simpler to re-create a catalog as my photo files will be in the cloud. If you want to start again from scratch, then yes you could just create a new catalog.

I was able to transfer everything over to lightroom but my presets, and watermarks… I have the folders but they wont show up. Where are your folders of presets? I run Lightroom CC on my iMac and suffered a complete hard disc failure. Fortunately managed to get most of my data and all my photos safely retrieved — phew!! However, I am completely stumped in trying to locate and transfer my collections information from the old data.

Have you any ideas? Hi Allan, sorry for the delay replying — just back from vacation. Sorry to hear about your iMac.

So have you tried simply opening the backup catalog or old lrcat file? That should do the trick. I currently use Lightroom CC on a Windows 10 PC and keep all my photos in a folder on an external hard drive several hundred thousand images. I would like to copy my photos folder from one external drive to a new external drive to use on the Mac. The new external hard drive is supposed to be compatible with both pc and Mac. My question is can I copy the folder on the external drive Windows PC to the new external drive and use the new external drive on the MacBook?

I want to use the external drive only on the Mac not copy the files to the relatively small hard drive. Will I be able to read and write and have the trash can available on the new external drive? Any advice is greatly appreciated! I have installed LR 5. The desktop computer however has problems and crashes HW-problems so I need to move my license to a new desktop computer. The same procedure is needed for Elements None of them is part of CC.

Up to and including LR 5. Elements 12 usually gets deregistered by uninstalling, but if you run into problems reinstalling, Adobe chat should be able to help. My present PC has a partitioned memory with all the operating system files on C: and all the Data files on D:. So while most of the saved copies are D: files a few are C: files i. Will this affect how I transfer the files to the iMac? As long as you have all of the files on the external drive, you can copy them to their correct locations on the iMac.

For example, the Presets, Camera Raw, etc. Thanks for your reply. I have now, I think, successfully made the transfer — for which your detailed guide was excellent! Ircat-journal and ditto Ircat.

They are shown as black squares with exec at top left. What are these and do they need to be dragged over somewhere? The temporary import data files you can safely delete. The journal and lock file would suggest that LR was open when you copied it. Following on from my last 2 questions, I now have all of my photos on my new iMac in the folders I transferred thanks to your excellent advice.

Now, none of these appear in or can be accessed from Photos in the Dock on the home screen. Is this normal?

Or is there a way of accessing them from Photos? What exactly I did to bring this about, I cannot now clearly recall! The Photos app is completely separate and wraps the files up in its own special format. So the question is there a way to get my photos back to the new Lightroom and recreate a new catalog without loosing my stuff?

Is the old laptop hard drive definitely damaged? Hello thanks for your answer, So just one more question I have the old catalog 6 month old , the photos are since ever on an external disk so so rout structure of the photos did not changed, But I think I added about new photos since the the last catalogue back up, so. Concerning the HD , I did try first thing to connect it as an external drive, the disk shows up as full but does not show any file structure , I will try this weekend with some tools try to recover some data..

Cross fingers…. Hello , hope you are doing well and thanks for your help, Quick question I was able to access part of my old HDD , still not sure if and how much I can recover, what files do I need urgently from Lightroom , it shows me a folder with over 6 gb of data do I need all or are there some specifics which I need and then it can recreate the missing things? The LR5 one is probably the one you want — the other one may be an additional catalog with a small number of photos, that you might want to merge into the main catalog eventually.

You might want to go find your presets too. Or it does not mean anything? I got my old catalog back and running , that said its the old one, and I have lost about fotos in the library , my questions , if I make a copy of the folder which contains all photos , and copy them to an other external drive, could I just go and say import new photos , link to the new external drive with the copy of all my photos which where linked to the lost catalog?

Would Lightroom recognize which photos are allredy in my catalogue and which not, and than just add the nonce which where not linked in the old catalogue? Should this work? The point is the total photo folder is about 80 GB and 20 photos? Should I split by year or month.. So do you think this would work , and what would be your recommendation?

Can you easily just add the photos, or are they scattered all over the place? So my idea was to connect the old hd 1GB as well and import fotos from the photo folder of that HD to my library and than link the photos automatically to my catalogue and therefore have my fotos back in the catalogue. I know LR has a feature to check if the photo is already in the catalogue or not , so the idea was to use LR for searching the fotos which are not in the catalogue today.

What do you think? Back up your catalog first. It should only import the new ones. Hello, Have been reading through this from the start. I may have missed something but do you copy the catalogue to the new LR on new laptop and then copy the photo files over, please?

Have LR on CC. In step 4, you transfer the files—the catalog, the photos, preferences and so forth—and place them in the same locations as they were on the old computer.

Hi again Victoria, Does it work if you copy the files to the new laptop rather than move them, please? Thanks, Hugh. I see the comments about Publish Services above with Daniel. I have Facebook and Google Plus lists there that I would like to get onto the new computer, but so far no luck.

The Google Plus was done with JF Picasaweb plugin, and that is reinstalled on the new installation with no problem. All other LR catalog items and photos came across successfully also. Just missing the two Publish Services lists. Thanks for this Victoria! I use to have a laptop and my office, now I need to have both in one computer…. You mentioned that lightroom can be loaded onto two computers. Do you know the specifications for the student edition? They can be recovered but I am wondering how to match up my edits with the recovered photos.

Lightroom backs up to my main computer and I store my pictures on an external drive. Can you help me get those matched up please? Thank you so very much! I love your website! If they come out with new filenames e. If they had names from metadata, for example, the date-time filename I often recommend, then it could be automated. I recently had to go to a restore point on my laptop. Fortunately it was only back a day and no new edits.

If you ever have to go back to a restore point on that would cause you to lose work — is there a way to take the lightroom backup that I store on external drive and load it? Very unlikely this will ever happen but the idea of losing hours of work because of having to use a restore setting on laptop is not a happy thought.

Yes, you can restore a catalog backup. Hello, Victoria, My apologies if this question has been addressed elsewhere. I successfully moved my iPhoto images directly to an external drive and it seems to work just fine with LR CC on a Mac. I now have a new MacBook Pro and have downloaded the creative cloud software and my apps including LR. All appears fine on the older computer but not so on the new computer.

Can you help? Have you followed all of the instructions above? Hi, Victoria, Thank you for your quick reply. Yes, on the new computer and with the external drive connected, lightroom does not show the drive or any catalog listings when I look under catalog preferences. Imagine a new Lightroom install that has never been used. No external drive. No photos. No folders. No collections. Everything worked just as you said it would.

The old computer still recognizes the external drive, hierarchy, and images just as it always has. Am I missing something in this thread? Perhaps something with instruction five above? Somehow I was under the impression all I needed to do was plug the Extertal drive-in with light room open and all would be well..

So on your old Mac, you can open the catalog and in the Folders panel, you can see all of the photos on the external drive. Only difference btw the computers is that the username and the accompanying home folder name are different between the computers. Not sure what to do at this point.

I know lightroom was working when I first downloaded and installed it on the new computer… before I copied the catalog and all the other files you mentioned. Any ideas where to start? After stressing about it most of the day today.

I finally decided to just take the leap and uninstall, then reinstall. Everything is working perfectly now. All my presets, edits, folders, flags, ratings, plugins… the whole ball of wax. Urgent help! I have a catalog from a Mac that I need to open on a Windows PC , whilst I can open the catalog, it says all the files are missing and I cannot adjust anything.

How do I get this to work? Just moved LR6 between 2 computers and was painless well as painless as it can be given the lack of Adobe support for this thanks to your guide. I have all data and photos saved on an external hard-drive from my old PC. Any idea how this can be solved? What happens when you try? NTFS formatted drives. Ahem, before I read anything about having to install Lightroom and Photoshop first.

I own both licenses for LR and PS. Any quick way out of this? I thought the applications would transfer as well and that I could just open them and register them with my serial numbers on my new iMac.

Are you a CC or perpetual user? Hello Victoria, thank you fir your suggestion. I am a perpetual user. Instead it signed me up as a temporary CS6 Extended user! Once I export the catalog with smart previews, I zip it and Dropbox it to her. When she downloads, she cannot find the catalog file to open, just the preview files. Is this a Mac to PC communication issue? Hello, just found your article. I had LR 4. I recently got back into doing photography again and would like to get it installed on my new computer but i lost the disc to the program and no longer have the laptop.

Will some of these steps still work? Should this work? The point is the total photo folder is about 80 GB and 20 photos? Should I split by year or month.. So do you think this would work , and what would be your recommendation? Can you easily just add the photos, or are they scattered all over the place? So my idea was to connect the old hd 1GB as well and import fotos from the photo folder of that HD to my library and than link the photos automatically to my catalogue and therefore have my fotos back in the catalogue.

I know LR has a feature to check if the photo is already in the catalogue or not , so the idea was to use LR for searching the fotos which are not in the catalogue today. What do you think? Back up your catalog first. It should only import the new ones. Hello, Have been reading through this from the start. I may have missed something but do you copy the catalogue to the new LR on new laptop and then copy the photo files over, please?

Have LR on CC. In step 4, you transfer the files—the catalog, the photos, preferences and so forth—and place them in the same locations as they were on the old computer. Hi again Victoria, Does it work if you copy the files to the new laptop rather than move them, please? Thanks, Hugh. I see the comments about Publish Services above with Daniel. I have Facebook and Google Plus lists there that I would like to get onto the new computer, but so far no luck.

The Google Plus was done with JF Picasaweb plugin, and that is reinstalled on the new installation with no problem. All other LR catalog items and photos came across successfully also. Just missing the two Publish Services lists. Thanks for this Victoria! I use to have a laptop and my office, now I need to have both in one computer….

You mentioned that lightroom can be loaded onto two computers. Do you know the specifications for the student edition? They can be recovered but I am wondering how to match up my edits with the recovered photos. Lightroom backs up to my main computer and I store my pictures on an external drive. Can you help me get those matched up please?

Thank you so very much! I love your website! If they come out with new filenames e. If they had names from metadata, for example, the date-time filename I often recommend, then it could be automated. I recently had to go to a restore point on my laptop. Fortunately it was only back a day and no new edits. If you ever have to go back to a restore point on that would cause you to lose work — is there a way to take the lightroom backup that I store on external drive and load it?

Very unlikely this will ever happen but the idea of losing hours of work because of having to use a restore setting on laptop is not a happy thought. Yes, you can restore a catalog backup. Hello, Victoria, My apologies if this question has been addressed elsewhere. I successfully moved my iPhoto images directly to an external drive and it seems to work just fine with LR CC on a Mac.

I now have a new MacBook Pro and have downloaded the creative cloud software and my apps including LR. All appears fine on the older computer but not so on the new computer. Can you help? Have you followed all of the instructions above? Hi, Victoria, Thank you for your quick reply. Yes, on the new computer and with the external drive connected, lightroom does not show the drive or any catalog listings when I look under catalog preferences. Imagine a new Lightroom install that has never been used.

No external drive. No photos. No folders. No collections. Everything worked just as you said it would. The old computer still recognizes the external drive, hierarchy, and images just as it always has. Am I missing something in this thread? Perhaps something with instruction five above? Somehow I was under the impression all I needed to do was plug the Extertal drive-in with light room open and all would be well.. So on your old Mac, you can open the catalog and in the Folders panel, you can see all of the photos on the external drive.

Only difference btw the computers is that the username and the accompanying home folder name are different between the computers. Not sure what to do at this point. I know lightroom was working when I first downloaded and installed it on the new computer… before I copied the catalog and all the other files you mentioned. Any ideas where to start? After stressing about it most of the day today.

I finally decided to just take the leap and uninstall, then reinstall. Everything is working perfectly now. All my presets, edits, folders, flags, ratings, plugins… the whole ball of wax. Urgent help! I have a catalog from a Mac that I need to open on a Windows PC , whilst I can open the catalog, it says all the files are missing and I cannot adjust anything.

How do I get this to work? Just moved LR6 between 2 computers and was painless well as painless as it can be given the lack of Adobe support for this thanks to your guide. I have all data and photos saved on an external hard-drive from my old PC.

Any idea how this can be solved? What happens when you try? NTFS formatted drives. Ahem, before I read anything about having to install Lightroom and Photoshop first. I own both licenses for LR and PS.

Any quick way out of this? I thought the applications would transfer as well and that I could just open them and register them with my serial numbers on my new iMac. Are you a CC or perpetual user? Hello Victoria, thank you fir your suggestion. I am a perpetual user. Instead it signed me up as a temporary CS6 Extended user! Once I export the catalog with smart previews, I zip it and Dropbox it to her.

When she downloads, she cannot find the catalog file to open, just the preview files. Is this a Mac to PC communication issue? Hello, just found your article. I had LR 4. I recently got back into doing photography again and would like to get it installed on my new computer but i lost the disc to the program and no longer have the laptop.

Will some of these steps still work? And what version would i download? Do you still have your serial number? If so, you can download LR 4. Otherwise, try logging into your Adobe account, as it should be listed there if you registered your copy.

Then yes, if you still have your old catalog, the steps above will work. I just want to move my files from laptop to my desktop. I did all editing already in the laptop, got a new computer, and would like to resume my work and editing in my new faster desktop. Hi Judith. Details are found here:. I ensured that catalogue all file folders were tidy and backed up on PC before taking all files in their folders to iMac.

None of the RAW images loaded and not all of the jpegs loaded. I created a new catalogue and was able to import the images afresh but obviously lacking all the side-car metadata and collections etc Any ideas — has my test import of files now prevented me from stepping back to the catalogue that only found a relatively small number of files? The good news is those can easily rebuild as long as the originals are correctly linked. If you open one of the mystery photos in Loupe, does it show up, or does it show an error message?

Hi Victoria, thanks for your response. Hi Victoria, hope you can help me on this one. My computer died at the weekend. On it I had LR3. My photos are thankfully all on an external HD and copies on a second HD. Luckily I did a LR back up just a few days ago. So now here is my dilemma. So therefore will I be able to open my LR3 backup and still find all of my photos there? Hope you can help here. Best wishes. Love this thread, thank you! Tired of Apple intruding into everything.

I have the creative suite online package. Question — as said earlier, LR could be on two machines. Should I just start a second copy, move everything to the Dell, manage catalogs differently, smaller, etc.??? Thank you so much for your wonderful instructions. I followed your instructions and the upload from Adobe was pretty simple. When it wanted to put the catalogue on my C Drive I redirected it to where it lives on my external hard drive.

ALL of them as imports??? With my old setup, the photos already had been copied into my external hard drive and LR easily accessed them. Where did I goof? Follow the instructions in step 6 to Find Missing Folders.

I read somewhere that you should not do anything with the new Mac computer before the transferring of files and photos had been made, no settings etc. Can I use this method and when it is all done download Lightroom CC and other programs and arrange my photo collection?

Or do you think there will be problems?? Do I have to relink all of my photos och will Lightroom find them after installation? So glad to come across this. What would you recommend? LR upgrade first on the PC old and slow then move to Mac? Yeah, the transfer works fine, even from LR1. Either way round is fine. I am in a similar position as the previous LR user and question.

I am running a Macbook pro with LR 5. So have bought a new Macbook pro running Os Sierra Am I right in thinking that when I buy a new computer I install the version of LR that I have bought and type in the original serial code that came with my version?

I managed to make the transfer in a simpler way: I just copied the parent folder and all subfolders for a collection to an external drive.

The cataloge was in this parent folder. Opened LR from this drive, using the. Then I transferred it all on to the 2nd machine, putting on C: drive and again LR opened the cataloge with everything working right. Maybe LR has learned how to change the file location links to fit the situation??? In some cases e. I do NOT yet have Lightroom installed on my new machine, so I am working with a blank slate, with just my backups from my old machine with which to work.

In what order do you recommend I perform these tasks? So hair, I mean, bare with me. I have Lightroom 5.

I am trying to download Lightroom 5. Unfortunately, after about an hour and a half…and MB of the I tried this 3 times. For poops and giggles, I downloaded it to my desktop on my old laptop, just to see if it would…and it did. Both old and new laptops have DVD burners…and I was wondering if I could burn a disk of the fully downloaded Lightroom 5 program from my desktop, the one I just downloaded, to a DVD and use that DVD in my new laptop to install it that way?

Thanks, again, in advance…. Hi Tami. I am moving from windows 7 to window Is it possible to move a Student license to a new computer? Yes, you should be able to move a student license. You might have the original redemption code rather than the serial number there though. I store all photos on an external drive and that folder is also my dropbox folder because I use two computers with lightroom residing on both.

I am about to change laptops, so all I really need is to install the lightroom on the the new unit I am getting. My question is what data do I have to migrate into the new, clean version of lightroom. Should I first change some of the lightroom settings before I do my last backup? Thank you in advance, Chris. And any non-Adobe plug-ins too.

Very much appreciated Victoria. I am fairly new to Lightroom and your site is a true goldmine. Just wanted to report back and let you know that the switch was done without any issues at all. The tip about keeping correct drive letter for the external drive saved me alot of headache! One note- all my lightroom files are kept on an external drive and are all inside a dropbox folder.

This allows me to keep three backup copies- one on this drive, one on personal PC and one using dropbox service. It was very simple to get this fixed. Got another drive, assigned the same drive letter, installed the dropbox in the same location and all files where back in place a few hours later. I wonder if my setup is something you would recommend or are there any drawbacks?

Great, thanks for the update Chris. I moved from my desktop to a laptop. I also put my pictures on an external drive. I placed all the catalogs, etc. When LR asked for me to choose the catalog to use it only pulled in a few images.

I tried advising LR of the new location for the pictures and it pulled in all of them and I lost my folder hierarchy. I then tried pulling in the catalogs from the backups. It worked fine for 1 backup but not for others.

LR tells me that it wants to pull the backups from the new drive where the pictures are stored and where I saved one backup so as not to lose the work I had done…again. I am hoping you can help with an easier why to use the complete catalog that I was using on the desktop. Can you tell me a bit more? I have all my photos and LR5 catalogs in a drive that is getting pretty filled. I would like to use another internal drive that has plenty of space and move all my catalogs and photos there.

What is the easiest and best way to do this? I currently have 50gb of data associated with Lightroom version 5. Also, is it wise for me to buy Lightroom 6? Any advantages? Thanks for your time. Lightroom 6 is a decent upgrade.

I have a perpetual license LR6 and want to move it on another laptop. Actually very frustrating. Followed the instructions and it seemed fine.

However, I had downloaded a newer version of Lightroom -so I was only on trial version -always expecting my existing license to activate without a problem when the time came.

Adobe support is perfectly confusing and there does not seem to be clear indications on how to upgrade from 5. Additionaly, of course, now my catalog will no longer work with my Lightroom 5. Oh dear, sorry to hear that Miguel. Just in case anyone else comes across this, you bring up a good point. The Adobe Download Links page above links to all of the different versions — but you need to know which version you own, otherwise you could download the wrong version. Sorry if this is not the right location for this question but I could not find the appropriate one.

If I begin with a CC subscription, and then cancel, is it possible to revert to a purchased perpetual version of Lightroom 6? Yes, with CC That could change with a major CC update, if it requires a catalog upgrade process. In the special case that you are moving everything — including Lr — from an old Mac to a new one, the Migration Assistant might be right for you. I just did it, and everything worked just fine. The catalog, files, desktop, all the external storage pointers, etc.

The one special thing to do is enter your serial number as when you launch Lr the first time on the new computer, the trial screen comes up. If you only want to move some things, the ability to select what moves is pretty limited. Hope this helps someone. I just purchased a new lap top — moving from windows 7 to windows I moved lightroom 5 to my new lap top. I moved one folder of photos over.

I am not sure what I did incorrectly or how to fix it. I have transferred my LR3 cat. Ircat to my external hard drive. I have copied it to my Picture folder on my new iMac. Do I need to purchase an app to run LR3?

Thanks John. My wife was the only user of Lightroom 3. Hi, My current LR everything in a Mac. I just got a new Mac. Should I go the route of external HD? Then link that external HD to the new Mac? Thanks, Tuan. External drive would be my preference Tuan, as it can then be used as an extra backup drive too.

You can buy extra cables to hook the computers directly up to each other, which could work too. It has taken me a while to get this done, but only because of my own lack of organization! Once I got my library updated it was easy peasy lemon squeazy to move between Mac and a new PC laptop thanks to this site.

I ran into issues because my laptop only has 1 USB connection and no ethernet connection and of course there is the formatting issue with the mac vs. PC issue for external hard drives.

Anyway, I would have been lost without your site for both how to transfer and how to back up a library. Hi Victoria, great article! Thanks Niki. I had an issue with moving watermarks I had purchased. It turns out the lrtemplate file contained a property with the image location. It was pointing to a ping file in Downloads for some reason. I copied the folders and ping files from the old computer to Downloads on the new computer and the watermarks were available again. Hi Victoria, I just updated to a new imac from an older imac everything is there like presets , however none of the images have my edits i made on the original imac, have I missed a file somewhere?

If your photo edits are missing, it sounds like you may have imported the photos into a new catalog, rather than copying your catalog from the original iMac. Hi Victoria, I have Lightroom version 6. I want to free up space on the external drive. Do I need to install using the disc or can I drag it over? Will my desktop shortcut link to the new location of the programme?

Hi Victoria , Great tutorial. Moving Lightroom from MacBook to iMac. All backup files ready to transfer to new Mac. Issue is many of the folders and paths are not yet created on the new Mac.

There is no such path or folders yet on the new Mac. The plug-ins can go wherever you like. I keep mine next to my Develop presets. The path you mention sounds like the built in plug-ins like tethering. Update: Figured out where to put the folders. It worked. Up and running! Thanks Victoria Mitch. Hi Victoria, okay you confused me, admittedly a simple task I have the glorious joy of moving everything to an external drive from my mac, keeping it on the external drive and functioning from a new PC.

The Trifecta! So how am I supposed to direct the windows machine to the catalog and read and write to or from it? Some of them would create duplicates once I bring in the old files from the mac. What does one do?

My Lightroom turned into a door stop! I purchased a new laptop and started to transfer lightroom to the new laptop. I had a good backup copy of 1. Loaded good. Program boots up good. No catalog yet. Did a reboot of my new laptop and Booted up the lightroom program: no presets. Goto show lightroom presets folder—all there.

No catalog and no photos yet. This could be caused by incorrect permissions or because another lightroom application is using the catalog. You may try to correct the problem or you may select a different catalog. So at this point, I have lightroom running without a catalog, no presets, and no photos.

So much for the new laptop. Here is the kicker: I went to my old laptop which has been running lightroom fine forever. I boot up lightroom and have the exact same problems and same responses! No catalog, no presets and no photos. Nothing had been changed on the older laptop. It appears that Adobe has shut me down totally on both machines. Help me please! You are my last hope. How did you transfer the catalog Greg?

And where did you put it? If there is, delete it and then try opening LR. Where was the catalog and pictures stored? I have lightroom 4 student and teacher edition. I am no longer a student and just bought a new laptop, can I transfer lightroom 4 to the new laptop? Yes, that should be fine as long as you have the serial number. The download is the same for either.

I want to install LR 6. The second point is that I want to set up the pictures of a year up to GB or more on the new 1 TB SSD drive for faster work, and next Jan 1st, move the whole directory of that year to d: — however, I can only move directories within one drive, but not from one drive to another. Can you say what my problem is and how to fix it? After downloading the 6.

They should work ok with the 6. I am running LR 6. So I think it is time to go for LR Classic via subscription. I would also upgrade to a new iMac with the latest Mojave system on it. I would do all the steps from above article to do the move to the new computer, but what about the preference file, it is now called lightroom6.

The preference file, does that include all the custom named color labels or is that info stored somewhere else? To conclude : thanks for all the help you provide here! Can you help me? Installing the program file on C and then putting the Lightroom Catalog and Photos on the other drive is a good plan. Double-click on the catalog to open it, and you might need to fix the missing folders before you can work with the photos. Also when you come to import new photos, look out for the Destination panel location in the Import dialog.

What a great tutorial you made. It helped me transition from a Windows to a Mac machine. My only question is do you know why not ALL of my colour labels and flags moved over? I think almost all of them did, after following your instructions, but I still have a particular folder that has no colour labels nor flags. When checking the Metadata of the images it shows the Metadata Status is up to date, but the label is blank.

I also just noticed the Keywords are missing. In other folders the Keywords and Metadata are correct. I did copy over the backups from the PC to the Mac. In fear of having more photos than I think are missing the flags etc. Hello Victoria, What a great tutorial — so glad I found it!

I have better organized my file hierarchy and have done the back ups to an external HD that you suggested figuring out how to find the Library files was an adventure! So far so good, but now I am ready for Step 4 but am unsure about transferring the files. Current system: Macbook Pro running El Capitan The catalog is on the internal HD and photos and backups are on an external HD. I was unable to upgrade to new Lightroom 8 on this machine due to operating system limitations.

New system: Macbook Pro running Mojave You state that I should copy the files to the same location on the new computer. If I copy my existing files to the new laptop will the v7. Will this name difference present a problem? I am not sure how to proceed with transferring the preferences and presets. Do I copy all of them? Again what happens when over-writing v7.

Is that a problem? Hi Peggy. Name difference is no problem at all. Everything you suggested worked perfectly! My photos are there, keywords are listed, flags are there… No missing folders.

I was so apprehensive about this transfer until I found your tutorial and website and even then was unsure about some of the steps. You explained the steps clearly so that an inexperienced user could follow them — I am very grateful for your assistance!!

The entire reason for this exercise is because Windows 10 has gone berserk with non-stop random left clicks that make using the computer virtually impossible. Imagine trying to edit photos and the mouse starts random left clicks, mostly in the lower right task bar, but also upper left.

Does what I have laid out make sense? By the way, Microsoft has been of absolutely no help in correcting the above mentioned issue! Good or bad experience?

I have heart palpitations! Wish me luck! Scared to death! After copying all the necessary files from the various locations off the old machine, we then transfer the files to the new computer preferably to the same file locations.

After this we install Lightroom. Or, do I copy the Lightroom folder with the LightroomCatalogue nested inside it and not just the catalogue? Could you clarify what I am misunderstanding?

When I start identifying faces with pictures I imported on the new PC, it appears to be starting from scratch — no default suggestions of names to go with faces. Where are the facial recognition data stored, and how do I transfer that to LR on a new computer? It should be in the catalog John. I have an iMac with High Sierra Do I upgrade to LR classic subscription first on the old iMac and then transfer to the new computer or do install 6. Very nervous about this. If not, it makes less difference — new machine will be quicker.

Classic moved a number of files, so you may be more comfortable moving 6. You then have the benefit of getting LR 6. Back up the disk and reformat it as soon as you can. How can I proceed to create a more recent backup of my catalog in this setup to install it to my new computer? Your help is much appreciated. Debs — To license the software, just enter the license key — it should activate fine as this is a replacement machine.

Outside of that, search the old disk for anything with an. I am using Lightroom 6 on laptop with Lightroom Catalog and all photos on external hard drive. Can I just purchase Lightroom Classic and download to new laptop and then plug in hard drive.

Any problems likely to arise with this approach? I would subsequently move the Catalog to internal hard drive on new laptop. Essentially the answer is yes. Classic will ask to upgrade your catalog when you first open it.

We suggest download the free eBook for more detailed instructions. My LR catalog is on my computer, and all my photos are located on external hard drives. Now I have to figure out how to deal with hard drives formatted for Mac. Any guidance? Once the move is completed, drives can be re-formatted to be used with Windows NTFS for example and the photos moved to there.

Had Lightroom 6 and signed up for Lightroom desktop classic in Got a new computer in , transferred all to new computer, but the photos from , , and do not appear in Lightroom on the new computer. How can I remedy this problem. Old computer had windows 7; new one has windows Ken, it sounds like you opened an older catalog when you opened up Lr for the first time on your new computer. Look for other later catalogs. Just tried the transfer again all the photos loaded but are not in folders.

Is there a way to remedy this? Did you try a different catalog? Or do you mean you copied all the photos again? Are they not in folders in Windows Explorer or Lightroom? Iam having a serious issue, All of my photos are here. Hi Victoria, My Windows pc has just gone bump! New one is on the way. Thanks Peter. Hi Paul, thanks for the, as usual, first class support. Just contacted Adobe support…. New pc arrives tomorrow, so lots of fun!? Appreciate your help. Chat Agents are good for sorting downloads once you get one.

We wish you every success with your new PC — busy day then!!! Hi Paul, LR 6. But desperate times…. Is there anyway of getting a list of files from an existing i. Backed up LR catalogue, that I could use to help me reload only the images I need? Thanks Paul. I see there are a lot more plug-ins on the website that look useful. Your help is greatly appreciated. Or even afterwards? The Adobe license allows Lightroom to be used on two computers, so you can run it on both. Thanks to following your step-by-step directions, it was quick and seamless.

Had mentally prepared for an evening for tweaking and fixing. I hope you enjoyed your celebratory glass of wine! I think I can follow your guide to transfer all of my photos and Lightroom Classic CC, but I wonder if doing a partial transfer is an option. I have a lot of photos and anticipate more in the future! For example, would it work if I transferred only a selection of my photos plus the entire catalog to the new computer while keeping a backup of all my photos and the catalog in an external hard drive?

Or do I have to transfer everything? Thank you for your advice!! Hi Victoria, I am migrating from a i5 to a i7 with a graphics card. How do I transfer the whole library? I can physically move the external drive to the new computer but what else should I move? Thank you for any assistance. The Lightroom Queen really Rocks! Had to change Apple computer, update LR Classic from two years ago and move to another external disk, After seven years since I last did this, I had completely forgotten how to do all the linkings etc.

This TLQ post from still relevant and more clear than anything else I found. Your email address will not be published. There are Quick Start eBooks for both the traditional desktop-based Lightroom Classic, and for the new Lightroom cloud ecosystem.

The eBooks are yours to download absolutely FREE, along with a number of other free member benefits, when you register for a free account.

Already registered? Sign in to download your copy. Check your backups Next, you need to make sure that all of the essentials are backed up—the catalogs, photos, preferences, presets, profiles, defaults, plug-ins and any other related files.

Relink any missing files You might find that there are question marks all over the folders or there are icons in the corners of the thumbnails—question marks in LR4, or rectangles with or without exclamation marks in LR5 and later.

Check your preferences and presets Double check that all of your presets and templates appear correctly, for example, all of your Develop presets are available in the Develop module, to confirm that you copied all of the files correctly. Reload any disabled plug-ins Finally, you might find your plug-ins need reloading as the locations may have changed in the move. Comments WOW!!! Hi I have performed this recently, and i have realize that, not sure why, i have lost flags for most of my photos.

Any clue about this? Hi First of all about your quick response. Let me know how you get on Daniel, then we can figure out where we go from here. Additionally I thing that I also have lost virtual copies, but pretty sure I also have on LR4 library Any idea about how to merge my old LR4 library with the new one? Let me first clarify the movements that i did: 1.

Here I did not realize that I lost things. I worked for some time with LR5 and added some new photos. About the computer, I am doing now. I thing that I did not edited old photos with LR5, in any case I would be small changes I can lost it… Yes I use Publish services to flikr, in fact this is my next step, imagine if I would be able to re-link my published photos in case that I need to publish again.

How I can merge? Thanks a lot for your help and quick response. Many thanks for your help! Thanks in advance! I fixed it myself.

Well done for fixing it! Thanks so much for the tip on building previews. Excellent, hope you enjoy it. I have sent the registration email already. Does your book apply to LightRoom CC?

If you show me a photo of your Finder sidebar, I might be able to give you a clue. Thank you for your patience. I even managed to get the parent folder to show up in the correct place. That would be a bug, if so! Hi Jeff. Hi Victoria: Kudos to you for the site — excellent information. Hey So my 27 inch 3. Thanks for your help!!! Oh dear! Yes, I CAN see the folders and subfolders for my work. Thank you so much for all your wisdom and help in getting my mess untangled!!

Which operating system and LR version are you now running? Yes… I can see a list of all my original work. Windows Vista? Lightroom 4. Also my Collection sets, Collections and smart collections were not migrated. Please help! Best regards Neil. Hi Victoria, Am about to get a new desktop and continue using laptop and this was very useful to read. Hi Victoria, I have small question to ask you.

Great news Greg! Victoria, I was arranging my photos in a better hierarchy, and believe I launched 2 conflicting tasks in LR5 tried to move the same files , I was left with 3 situations: 1. Thank you, Tim. Thanks My catalog just finished importing but all of is missing. I found them I was looking in the wrong drive. Thanks for all of the help.

Thanks for the speedy reply!! I really appreciate your articles and your guidance!! How do I sort myself out? Ps I have a backup catalog but 6 month old…. What is your suggestion Thanks marc. Hello thanks for your answer, So just one more question I have the old catalog 6 month old , the photos are since ever on an external disk so so rout structure of the photos did not changed, But I think I added about new photos since the the last catalogue back up, so So if I relink the old catalog to the LR CC do I need to add all photos again?

Hello , victoria happy new year, I got my old catalog back and running , that said its the old one, and I have lost about fotos in the library , my questions , if I make a copy of the folder which contains all photos , and copy them to an other external drive, could I just go and say import new photos , link to the new external drive with the copy of all my photos which where linked to the lost catalog?

Then it step 5 you open the copied catalog into Lightroom. And…never mind. I figured it out. Just have to push all the right buttons. I apologize if you have addressed this somewhere already. I do regular backups of my work and settings. Oh well done Geoff! Hi there, Urgent help!

Thank you so much,. Scroll up and try again. Jon C. It took a few tries, but I finally got LR to default to the correct folders. Hi Victoria, So glad to come across this. Victoria, you made this potentially complicated process simple! Hi Victoria, Sorry if this is not the right location for this question but I could not find the appropriate one. Many thanks, Jason. Hi Victoria, I have transferred my LR3 cat.

Thanks for your time, —Mark. Those folders contain presets and templates, so you might want to merge them instead of delete.

Yep, watermarks are the oddball. Hi Mitch. Yes but you do have backups, right?