P: Updating to version 9 but my catalog from version 8.4 is incompatible

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Lightroom Classic - Updating to Lightroom Version 9 but my catalog from version 8.4 is incompatible and for some reason, it can't be updated. I can revert back to 8.4 temporarily so as not to lose my collection of work but it's not going to be a solution long term. Can you help give me some steps that might offer a solution to this issue I am encountering?

Any advice, solution or steps that I might be able to try would be most appreciated.

Thank you.

Joe

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I actually got it working, thank you. It wouldn't work from the start trying to upgrade my Catalog, but after creating a brand new one, I relaunched my old catalog from within the updated program and for whatever reason, that worked and has remained working after several restarts.

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So, after updating to Lightroom Classic v9 and launching the programme, I get the message telling me that my catalog needs to be upgraded and a new catalog file will be created in a stipulated destination. I’m asked to either ‘Upgrade’ or ‘Choose a Different Catalog’.

If I choose Upgrade, the catalog will go through about 5 minutes of upgrading before I get the message

‘Lightroom encountered problems when trying to update the format of the catalog file and cannot use this catalog in this version of Lightroom’, to which I am given the options, ‘See Adoe TechNote’, ‘Show in Finder’, ‘Quit’ and Choose a Different Catalog’.

Now, I can start a new Catalog and Lightroom v9 seems to work fine, but I have none of the pictures from the last two years available, nor any of my presets for that matter but I haven’t considered that as an issue of concern yet.

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So, after updating to Lightroom Classic v9 and launching the programme, I get the message telling me that my catalog needs to be upgraded and a new catalog file will be created in a stipulated destination. I’m asked to either ‘Upgrade’ or ‘Choose a Different Catalog’.

If I choose Upgrade, the catalog will go through about 5 minutes of upgrading before I get the message

‘Lightroom encountered problems when trying to update the format of the catalog file and cannot use this catalog in this version of Lightroom’, to which I am given the options, ‘See Adoe TechNote’, ‘Show in Finder’, ‘Quit’ and Choose a Different Catalog’.

Now, I can start a new Catalog and Lightroom v9 seems to work fine, but I have none of the pictures from the last two years available, nor any of my presets for that matter but I haven’t considered that as an issue of concern yet.

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