I have purchased standalone Lr 6 and updated to 6.10. When I try to upgrade my 4.4 Catalog I get the message "Lightroom encountered problems when trying to update the format of the catalog file and cannot use this catalog in this version of Lightroom". I have tried exporting the catalog from Lr 4.4 and importing to Lr 6.6 and this fails also. Is there a solution for this?
On importing to Lr6 the message was can not import.
Just to clarify your procedure- You are just trying to OPEN the 'new' catalog you exported?
There is no "Import" involved in this process of upgrading a catalog.
If you did the 'Export to Catalog' and called it something like "New" it will appear as New.LRCAT and you simply double-click on this .LRCAT file to open it in Lr6. Hopefully the catalog update then occurs.
Just to be clear I was trying to Import as a catalog from the catalog exported from Lr4. This did not work. I then tried to open as a new catalog. After a longish delay I was back to the original error ‘Lightroom encountered problems when trying to update the format etc’ I have come to the conclusion that this just is not going to work! What does work is to go into Lr 4 write the metadata to file. Then In Lr 6 import the photos. Of course this does mean that all collections have to be manually reconstructed which is a pain. Thanks for everyone’s attempts to help
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