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AndreaJor72
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December 7, 2017
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Catalog missing information after upgrade to Lightroom Classic

  • December 7, 2017
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Hi

I recently upgraded to the new Lightroom Classic.

I've realised that not all of the information in my previous catalog has come across to the new catalog and I was looking for advice on how to fix this.

My two issues are:

1. the catalog now longer shows the photos I'd archived on an external hard drive. I had moved those photos to that drive within Lightroom so all the photos used to show up within my catalog. My first thought was simply to import them all back in but then none of my edits would show.

2. I noticed yesterday that some of the photos I've edited no longer have the edits that I've made. I noticed this in a couple of folders and haven't had the heart to go through all of them to see whats missing.

Unless I can find a solution I'm looking at having to re-edit thousands of photos and that doesn't feel like it should be a result of the upgrade so I'm hoping someone has some advice.

Thanks
Andrea

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    dj_paige
    dj_paige
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    December 7, 2017

    My first guess is that you upgraded the wrong catalog file.

    Use your operating system's search feature to search for all files whose name ends with .LRCAT. If you find one that has a date and time before you first launched Lightroom Classic CC, that's probably the one you want.

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    AndreaJor72Author
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    December 7, 2017

    Hi.

    Thanks for your reply.

    I checked and I only have the original catalog and the upgraded catalog.

    Looking at those files I can see that the original catalog has a larger file size which shouldn't be the case if the catalog upgraded correctly.

    Is it possible that the upgrade didn't work the way it should have?

    dj_paige
    dj_paige
    Legend
    December 7, 2017

    AndreaJor72  wrote

    Looking at those files I can see that the original catalog has a larger file size which shouldn't be the case if the catalog upgraded correctly.

    I don't know why you say this, as it is not true.

    Is it possible that the upgrade didn't work the way it should have?

    Well, I guess that depends on what is in the original catalog file. So you need to launch your previous version of Lightroom, and open the original catalog file and see if the missing information and missing photos are in there.

    Also, do you have a recent backup of your catalog file?

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