Can you recover an lrcat from a Lightroom cc lrlibrary

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September 1, 2022
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It's been a while since I've used either version of Lightroom.

I recently opened up Lightroom cc on my Mac and realized it wasn't classic.

when I opened classic, it had no photos. Cc seems to have them. Is there a way to recover an lrcat from the lrlibrary? I do have the original photo files on my NAS.

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GoldingD

Legend

Please post your System Information as Lightroom Classic (LrC) reports it. In LrC click on Help, then System Info, then Copy. Paste that information into a reply. Please present all information from first line down to and including Plug-in Info. Info after Plug-in info can be cut as that is just so much dead space to us non-Techs.

JohanElzenga

Community Expert

Lightroom cloud isn't going to steal photos from Lightroom Classic, so what you think happened is very unlikely. What is much more likely is that Lightroom Classic lost the connection to the existing catalog, and created a brand new one (which obviously does not contain any photos). Search your hard disk for .lrcat files to find the correct catalog and open it from Lightroom Classic.

-- Johan W. Elzenga

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RubyRedRickAuthor

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That’s my problem. I can’t find any lrcat files.

I never used Lightroom cc on the Mac as far as I can recall, and only used the iPad app very sparingly.

I’ve used Lightroom since before Creative Cloud, and moved to CC when it became available.

On my Mac The Lightroom app is showing over 4000 photos, going back to 2000. So this has to have originally come from Lightroom classic
Lightroom Classic is showing 0.

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Rick DeNatale

GoldingD

Legend

Using Finder, search for

.lrcat

GoldingD

Legend

Lightroom cc

please clarify, by cc are you referring to a very old copy of Lr, like v6.14, or are you referring to the cloud based app

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RubyRedRickAuthor

Participant

The cloud based app.

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