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May 16, 2025
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History disappeared when updating Lightroom

  • May 16, 2025
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Have same problem as many others. All history disappeared when uppdating to the latest version of Lightroom on Windows 10. I am a professional photographer, and I am using two catalog files. One big and one smaller. Updated both.

 

From the bigger, and most important one, I lost all history. The name of the updated catalog file is "Lightroom Catalog-2-2-v13-5.lrcat". The version of the updated Lightroom is "14.3.1 release".

 

The catalog prior to the update was 27.2 GB. Ater the update it is 2.31 GB. The size of the lrcat-data file is now 429 MB. Prior to the update it was 470 MB.

 

I have copied the "Old Lightroom Catalogs" folder to another place, as well as the newly created catalog files. Then I copied the two old back and restarted Lightroom by clicking on the catalog file. It updated to a new catalog, still called "...v13-5.lrcat", 2.31 GB in size, and without history. What should I do now???

 

When I updated the smaller catalog, it kept the history, but also kept the name "....v13-5.lrcat" Is that OK?

 

Best regards,

/Desperate

2 replies

Rikk Flohr_Photography
Community Manager
May 23, 2025

The engineering team is requesting some files to investigate this further. If anyone has a copy of their catalog pre upgrade and post upgrade, we would like to get a copy of each.  If you can provide both catalogs, please reply in the thread and will will contact you about sourcing them.  Note: We only need the .LRCAT files. 

Thank you.


Rikk Flohr: Adobe Photography Org
dj_paige
Legend
May 16, 2025

Are you sure you upgraded the proper catalog(s)? Sometimes LrC makes a mistake and upgrades the wrong catalog file.

 

Do you have backups of these catalog(s) from just before the upgrade?

 

Did you by any chance synchronize folders before you upgraded? (The good answer would be NO. The bad answer would be YES)

LoYAuthor
Participant
May 16, 2025

Yes I am sure I upgraded the right catalogs.

I have backups of the files from before the upgrades.

I do not syncronize anything as far as I know. I like to keep everything local.

dj_paige
Legend
May 16, 2025

Synchronize folders, not synchronize with the cloud. Did you synchronize folders?

 

If you have backups, I would make a copy, unzip it, and upgrade those.