P: Error when upgrading from legacy LR 6 to LR Classic 14

[uwe_7712]

HI,

today I licensed Adobe Cloud with LR Classic 14. I installed LR Classic 14. After start LR tried to upgrade my old legacy LR 6 catalog to the newest format. An error message occured.

Questions:

- Can LrC 14 migrate an old legacy LR 6 catalog?

- How can I avoid the error during upgrade?

Thanks.

[dj_paige]

The workaround is to install LrC 13.2, upgarde the Lr 6 catalog, then re-install LrC 14.0.1 and upgrade the LrC 13.2 catalog.

https://helpx.adobe.com/download-install/using/install-previous-version.html

[Per Berntsen]

LrC can upgrade catalogs from all previous Lightroom versions.

What does the the error message say? Exact wording please.

Or post a screenshot. Please do NOT attach screenshots, use the Insert Photos button in the toolbar.

[GoldingD]

Hmm, yes we need to see the error. I suspect it is a dialog screen complaining that the lrcat-data file could not be found. As your catalog is old v6, their is in fact no lrcat-data file, and you should have had an option to never mind continue on.

The dialog screen in question is a bit poorly written, is it perhaps this one?

and see:

• https://helpx.adobe.com/lightroom-classic/kb/catalog-faq-lightroom.html

[uwe_7712]

Hi, many thanks to dj_paige.

This workaround made it. Neither 1st nor 2nd level support knew about that.