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May 24, 2024
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Metadata lost after upgrading from v12 to v13

  • May 24, 2024
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I just upgraded from Lightroom Classic v12 to v13 and I'm missing a significant amount of metadata. I have about 21000 images in my catalog and the people were tagged in all of them (painstakingly over years). Now LRC is showing ~10000 unnamed people that had previously been tagged. How do I resolve this? I assume that data still exists in the v12 catalog file. Thanks to anyone who can help.

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JohanElzenga
Community Expert
Community Expert
May 24, 2024

Are you sure you upgraded the correct catalog? Lightroom Classic 13.3 requires a new catalog upgrade, so people who used version 13.2 will see their catalog upgraded from V13 to V13-3. You talk about upgrading from V12 to V13 however.

 

-- Johan W. Elzenga
Participant
May 24, 2024

Hi. Thanks for your quick reply. I was using Lightroom Classic v12 and must have updated it to v13 (I don't know when I did this). When I opened the app today it said that I needed to upgrade my catalog for it to work with the new version. So I hit upgrade and seem to have lost a lot of metadata. When I look in the folder where LRC saves the catalog data, I can see a v12.lrcat and v13.lrcat and lrcat-data files for each one. I imagine the v12.lrcat still has all  my metadata still correctly stored. 

dj_paige
Legend
May 24, 2024

You have probably upgraded the wrong catalog. Do a search, using your operating system's search feature, of all folders on all disks. Find all files whose name ends with .LRCAT. Open each one by double-clicking on it until you find the catalog you want.