Lightroom 13 deleting any Develop settings

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November 6, 2023
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I updated to Lightroom 13.1 but when I clicked on my default catalog it crashed near the end of loading. The entire catalog got corrupt and placed in another folder but they were able to save the catalog.

The issues haven't stopped there though. All of my images won't pop up with a thumbnail unless I click on them which is making it difficult to find specific pictures. The biggest issue is I can see an image that I have developed already but I can't continue to edit them. When I bring it into Develop all of my edits disappear and it reverts back to absolutely to a reset image.

Obviously I don't want to destroy all my previous edits by using this version of Lightroom. Any help?

macOS

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Sean McCormack

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There's a lot to unpack there. First of all, the 12.X catalog isn't touched by the upgrade process. A temporary catalog is created and that is upgraded. The previews are taken though as it's easier to transfer previews.

You should be able to upgrade the previous catalog again. Your previews may be lost, but that's a matter of selecting folders and generating them from the Library>Previews>Build Standard Sized Previews menu..

You say 'They'.. who is they?

Sean McCormack. Author of 'Essential Development 3'. Magazine Writer. Former Official Fuji X-Photographer.

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McKianAuthor

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Sorry, "it" was able to save the catalog or to at least make an update on the second try despite crashing and corrupting the first attempt. It saved the corrupted file for some reason. Just mentioning it in case it mattered not because it is a current problem.

I can build previews, that's not the big issue. The big issue is that it is reverting all my previous edits. I was mentioning the previews because it was another weird aspect of the new Lightroom version.

Sean McCormack

Community Expert

It absolutely shouldn't be doing that.

Roll back to 12 by uninstalling 13. Click the 3 dots beside Lightroom Classic in the Creative Cloud app and choose Other Versions. Choose 12. Install it. Check the Lightroom 12 Catalog. I'd even go to All Photographs and run File>Export As Catalog. You don't need to tick any of the boxes. Open this new catalog. It should be a clean catalog. Exporting ignores unnecessary data in the catalog.

Now update to 13 again and upgrade the exported catalog. You'll still need to generate previews, but hopefully this will resolve it.

Sean McCormack. Author of 'Essential Development 3'. Magazine Writer. Former Official Fuji X-Photographer.

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