Upgrading from OS12 to OS14

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October 6, 2024
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Hi,

I want to upgrade from OS 12 Monterey to OS 14 Sonoma (MacBook Pro M1 Max), doing a Clean Installation. What have I to do with Photoshop an Lightroom Classic? Wich are the best steps to reinstall them in the new OS? Thanks in advance. Daniel

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Conrad_C

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If you’re doing a clean installation (complete erase), Lightroom Classic requires different handling than Photoshop:

1. Make sure your complete backup includes both the Lightroom Classic catalog folder(s) and all of the folders containing the original images.

2. After the clean install, copy those items back to the exact same folder locations they were before the clean installation.

3. Open the Lightroom Classic catalog. If there are no errors, everything is OK and you are done. If it says folders or images are missing (you see the question mark icon), remap the topmost level folder in the hierarchy to its current location by using secondary click (right-click or Control-click) and choosing Find Missing Folder as shown below. All subfolders should relink automatically.

If you need more details, read this article:

How do I move Lightroom to a new computer?

Also, if your presets or other settings such as brushes, actions, metadata templates, etc. are missing after the clean installation, copy them from your backup to your clean installation, using these articles as references for where those files are in your backup and where they need to go in your new installation:

Preference file functions, names, locations | Photoshop

Preference file and other file locations | Lightroom Classic

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Daniel27818618pfvcAuthor

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Many thanks Conrad for your detalied description,

kind regards,

Daniel

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Lumigraphics

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Why not go to Sequoia instead?

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Daniel27818618pfvcAuthor

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Sequoia is very recent, I have some applications that are not compatible yet.

Kind regards,

Daniel

Trevor.Dennis

Community Expert

If you can't, then you can't, but Sequoia has some nice features, and I am sure you know that your MBP M1 Max is compatible. I'm guessing the clean install of the OS is by way of cleaning things up and getting a nice fresh OS to work with?