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kdriskell88
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March 21, 2024
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Migration to Confusion - Videos

  • March 21, 2024
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Before migrating from Classic to Desktop, I synced all of my collections to the cloud so they would be in albums in cc. Unfortunately none of my videos synced so I went ahead and added them all to the cloud manually. However, now all of my video files are in Lightroom in the designated folder for originals, so if I go to migrate my catalog from Classic, I will have duplicates of every video file in the new location. Help! Is there a way to migrate JUST images? Or perhaps a way to migrate them all and then easily figure out where the duplicates are? (They're not virtual copies) Or during migration will it be able to see there are duplicates? 

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kdriskell88Author
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March 21, 2024

Update: so I'm thinking since my video files are now safely in the designated folder for originals where I directed lightroom to store them...I can delete all the video files from the "orignal files" folder that Lightroom Classic was pulling from. Is this a correct thought? Then when I go to migrate from Classic it will migrate everything but videos will NOT be in that folder that my catalog pulls from. Yes??

Ian Lyons
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Ian LyonsCommunity Expert
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March 21, 2024

Create a temporary backup copy of the videos and place same in a folder that's not linked to Lightroom. If things don't go as you expect them to, then you've still got backup copies.

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