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dmrees61
dmrees61
Participant
February 10, 2026
Question

Unable to upgrade LR6 catalog

  • February 10, 2026
  • 1 reply
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I've just taken out a Lightroom subscription.

The version of LR Classic available is 14.0.1 which I have installed and migrating my old Lightroom 6 catalog fails:

Any suggestions?

    1 reply

    dj_paige
    dj_paige
    Legend
    February 10, 2026

    There was a problem with LrC 14 and it could not upgrade (in some cases) a Lr 6 catalog. I believe this problem is fixed in the current LrC 15.1.1.

     

    I also believe that a solution at that time (before LrC 15 came out) was to install LrC 13.0 or LrC 13.1 and this was able to upgrade the catalog, and the re-install LrC 14 and upgrade the catalog to LrC 14. The problem is that now LrC 13 isn’t readily available.

    dmrees61
    dmrees61Author
    Participant
    February 10, 2026

    Thanks for this.

    I saw your earlier answers suggesting doing the upgrade initially on LrC 13 which isn't available to me when I look at earlier versions in CC desktop.  Looks like I need a new laptop to run LrC 15.1.1 🤦🏼

    dj_paige
    dj_paige
    Legend
    February 10, 2026

    You can try to contact an agent at Adobe tech support and ask for a download link for LrC 13 or LrC 13.1. Maybe even LrC 13.2 will work, I don’t remember that detail. However, people report that you may have to contact Adobe several times, speaking to a different agent each time until you find one who understands what you are asking and is able to provide a download link.

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