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AndrewBartlett
AndrewBartlett
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November 1, 2023
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Cloud catalog restore

  • November 1, 2023
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drive died with the catalog on it, but it's all in the cloud and the picture files are on another drive- how do I restore the cloud catalog to a new hard drive and new version of Lightroom classic?

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    Rob_Cullen
    Community Expert
    Rob_CullenCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    November 2, 2023

    Lightroom-Classic catalogs and Lightroom Catalogs are totally different and not interchangeable.

    Lightroom-Classic catalogs must be locally stored, and if you have deleted it you only option is to restore from a Backup of the catalog.

    Lightroom 'Catalogs' are not something you can control or access- they only exist (unseen) in your Adobe Cloud space.

    For LrC only:  RESTORE A CATALOG FROM BACKUP

     

    If you have no backups of the LrC Catalog you will need to build a new Catalog from the image files that exist "on another drive".

     

    LrC can download full-size files from the Cloud (ie. images added/ imported direct to Lightroom) to a new 'Synced' LrC Catalog, but if you only ever synced photos to the Cloud FROM LrC then only proxy smart preview files exist in the Cloud and will not restore to LrC- unless they can 'match-up' with the originals you import from "another drive".  Complicated.!!!

     

    Regards. My System: Windows-11, Lightroom-Classic 15.3, Photoshop 27.5, ACR 18.3, Lightroom 9.3, Lr-iOS 10.4.0, Bridge 16.0.3 .
    dj_paige
    dj_paige
    Legend
    November 1, 2023
    quote

    drive died with the catalog on it, but it's all in the cloud


    By @AndrewBartlett

     

    What is all in the cloud? Your catalog file itself is not stored in the cloud (unless you mean something like OneDrive and not the Adobe cloud, what cloud are you referrring to?)

     

     

    AndrewBartlett
    AndrewBartlettAuthor
    Participant
    November 1, 2023

    I can access the catalog on my iPad and phone- so the catalog must live somewhere I can access it to put back on my computer right?

    dj_paige
    dj_paige
    Legend
    November 1, 2023

    You can access the cloud version of your edited photos, not the catalog.

     

    Were the photos shared to the cloud by Lightroom Classic? Or were they shared to the cloud by Lightroom? Or were they shared to the cloud by Lightroom Mobile? Or something else?

    John T Smith
    Community Expert
    John T SmithCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    November 1, 2023

    You need to ask program questions in the forum for the program you are using
    To ask in the forum for your program please start at https://community.adobe.com/
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