Lightroom 6 (not cloud based). Transfer to a new computer
Dear community,
I already gave my request to the forum and received a first answer from
John Rellis. Thanks for this. So following I have studied lots of
information given by the LightroomQueen. But I am still unable to solve
my problem.
Down here I outline in detail what happens, and I hope anyone can help
me. *I would appreciate a simply formulated instruction for doing step
by step.*
I worked some years with LR6 (from DVD) on my old PC (under WIN7). Now I
changed over to a new machine (under WIN10), and I installed the same
bare LR6 from the DVD by using the same key. The first surprise came up
after registering at Adobe Creative Cloud: The presets became much more
versatile, e. g. de-haze is included now... So far, so good. By the way,
I want to stay out of the Cloud Version (CC?) - only on my own desktop PC.
Using this new installed LR6 I have imported some RAW pictures (new ones
from India) and started to edit/develop them. Even that worked fine. And
I found the file(s) as given in this screenshot - all automatically created:
So I will continue all the next time. There is no need for changes.
But now I come to my problem: On my old PC I have a huge amount of
pictures edited/developed from RAW via DNG and than exported as JPG -
the last ones into separate files on an external HDD. But on the PC
itself the LR6 created (and filled in) the following structure which I
stored on an USB stick (4,5 GB) for occasional use with the new PC:
It is my wish to get the *opportunity *to access to those old pictures
via LR6 if there would be a need for this any time. They should not be
stored all the time on the new PC (and fill volumes). *How can I manage
this?*
I already opened the import menu of LR6 and have chosen the USB source -
but no picture was found:
By the way, the trial to open the file Lightroom Catalogue directly from
the USB finished with the following statement:
In addition, a confusion came up because of the hint for catalogues
named as Adobe Lightroom Classic CC (remember, I do not want CC):
In case I have been on a totally wrong way with my new installation - I
could install LR6 completely new...
Now I hope for illuminative help - step-by-step instructions, please.
Kindest regards, Klaus-Rainer Schulze