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October 31, 2024
Question

Lightroom catalogue migration hangs, no error message

  • October 31, 2024
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I'm migrating my LR Classic (v14.0.1) catalog to LR CC (v8.0), and the migrate hangs at 82%, in the 'Adding Albums' stage. LR is responsive, but nothing seems to be going on. I've read all Help topics I can find without finding a solution.
 
I'm hesitant to restart the migration again to avoid problems with the migration. What should I try next?
 
This has persisted now for a few days with no visible progress. I've restarted the migration, booted my mac, and plain old waited at this stage first for ~24h and now for another 10 h. LR is responsive, but with very little activity registering on Activity Monitor (low CPU & GPU usage, little disk use, no discernible network activity). 
 
My Lightroom CC cloud storage stands at 621 GB, which means that ~53 GB of my photos are still awaiting upload. This figure, too, has not changed since the progress bar got stuck at 'Adding Albums'.
 
I'm on a 2024 MacBookPro, M3 Pro chip, 18 GM RAM and a 1 TB SSD. My LR Classic catalog weighs in at 674 GB and ~32k photos.

3 replies

Known Participant
June 23, 2025

Was there a solution for this? I am at 83% and everything was working fine until yesterday. Now there hasn't been any network traffic in 12 hours. I have 1/8th of my photos transfered.

GoldingD
Legend
November 2, 2024

Are any videos in that migration?

 

Participant
November 4, 2024

Nope, it's all stills - jpeg's, RAW and probably a few TIFF's.

Participant
November 1, 2024

I'm having the same exact. My migration also gets stuck at 82 percent. Must be some type of new software bug they need to fix. Looking for a solution asap!