Lightroom Upgrade revewrts back to original version

Question

Lately, everytime I log into Lightroom, it asks me to "Upgrade the Catalog". If I do this, it reverts back to my original version, and I lose about 5 years worth of images. Fortunately I have been able to find the last version I used, but this is tedious and very stress inducing. How do I stop this message, and what is the proper way to get back the version I need? Right now I am just stumbling through steps. I have a Windows 10 system.

Please help!

Linda

Per Berntsen · Answer

You are opening a catalog from a previous version of LrC, so you have to find the catalog that has already been upgraded to the current version, and open that.

If you are using version 13, it most likely has "v-13" or similar in its name.

Catalogs have the extension .LRCAT, and you can do a search for .LRCAT files with the File explorer.

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