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ak-r
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February 20, 2025
Question

Unable to see any of the collection when i try to open the LR project in another system

  • February 20, 2025
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I had Macbook Air with sonoma 14.5 in which i used lightroom classic .I backed up everything including all the source images in an external drive.

I try to open this project in my another Macbook Air M1 with same sonoma 14. 7 & updated lightroom 14.2 as iam a member of adobe cc .
Even when the catalogue gets update while lightroom open my saved LR project . iam Unable to see any of the colletion which i made spending so much of time as have 1000s of photographs.

I have followed the tips given in general to ensure we have the proper cataloge with all collection in tact . i dont even get missing link or folder yet i have this issue. How to get all my collections back in order . kindly suggest . Thanks in advance.

 

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ak-rAuthor
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February 21, 2025

Kindly read as collection wherever i mistyped colletion. typo. sorry.

MassC
MassC
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February 26, 2025

Hi @rasaGRAPHY, 

 

It sounds like you're working between Lightroom Classic and Lightroom (cloud-based), which are two different programs that can sync when manually set up. To better understand your situation, I have a few clarifying questions:

  1. When you say you backed up everything, what exactly does that include?
  2. Are you opening the same catalog, or did you create a new one?
  3. Can you share a screenshot of what you're seeing? If possible, a video walkthrough would also be helpful!


^CM

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ak-rAuthor
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February 28, 2025

Thanks for the response
I work with Lightroom Classic only.

1. The entire LIGHTROOM PROJECT is in external drive & with that only i try to open the same in another macbook air which has the lightroom classic. screenshot 01
2. Made a safe copy of the entire catalogue to another drive THEN opened lightroom with this source project folder.

3. All my source files/images are also in the same folder. screenshot 02

3. But unable to see my "collections" which i have made spending so much of time. screenshot 03
Please note. Screenshots attached  are numbered in that order. 01 02 03 .

Thanks a lot for your support.

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