After upgrade I am unable to locate Snapshots or History

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November 14, 2021
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LR Classic upgrade v10 to v11 - the upgrade seems not to have brought forward the photo SnapShots or History from the previous version and seems to have overwritten the catalog back up settings - both significant weaknesses. These have caused significant disruption to my processing and this is a very poor way to upgrade the product.

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Todd Shaner

Legend

"I don't believe that I upgraded the wrong catalogue. I vaguely recall editing the name of the v11.lrcat to exclude the v10 bit."

Use Finder to compare the size of the v10.lrcat file to the v11.lrcat file. If you haven't done a significant amount of new editing they should both be about the same size.

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Andy WeatherburnAuthor

Participating Frequently

OK thanks guys (all of you). It seems clear that something went wrong in the upgrade process.

...2-2.lrcat created 22 Feb 2020 & modified 25 Oct 2020 is 616.1b

...2-2-v10.lrcat created 25 Oct 2020 & last modified 27 Oct 2021 is 1.17gb

... 2-2-v11.lrcat created 27 Oct 2021 and last modified 14 Nov 2021 is 452.3mb (smaller than 2-2 and a lot smaller than 2-2-vb10)

If 2-2 was upgraded rather than v10 as intended then I would expect the photos included in v10 between 25 Oct 2020 and 27 Oct 2021 to be missing - which they are not.

Perhaps this is more than just a question of which catalogue was upgraded and more to do with a failed or corrupt upgrade. I note that one of your links above notes that there are some instances of problems with the upgrade process.

I wonder if my best approach now is to rename all the current v11 catalogue files and run the upgrade again on the v10 catalogue and be more wary of what the result is. I would then have to reimport and process all the photos since the first upgrade attempt.

Thoughts?

I might also consider starting a completely new catalogue and starting from a clean position for all new photos, as I am down to 300gb left on that 2tb external SSD and I run the catalogue on the external SSD which also holds the photos.

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richardplondon

Community Expert

If you are going to have another go at upgrading an earlier version catalog to v11, obviously that will be missing your images taken, imported and worked on subsequently.

One way around this would be to write XMP out to file from your current v11 Catalog and then re-import those image files into this other v11 Catalog. But this would be to throw away all those images' virtual organisation (such as Collection membership), any virtual copies, and their prior edit History right back to their import.

So instead, highlight those images in the current v11 Catalog and do "Export as Catalog" - choosing selected images only, and not to include copies of the originals in what is being saved, to a temporary location.

After you have converted your older catalog under a new different v11 name, you can then do "Import from Catalog" to merge in all these recent photos - from that temporary catalog. This is better than importing images from disk with XMP metadata, because you don't only bring in latest edit metadata state of one master copy, you bring all that other good stuff too - IOW, you will have lost nothing.

dj_paige

Legend

the upgrade seems not to have brought forward the photo SnapShots or History from the previous version

So you are saying that History is empty?

This almost sounds like you accidentally imported some photos twice a long time ago, and only one such photo has edits and snapshots. Have you confirmed that there is no history anywhere in the upgraded catalog? Create a smart collection for photos that have edits, and see if this smart collection is empty.

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Andy WeatherburnAuthor

Participating Frequently

OK - as regards History, I don't understand how the History can not even show an import date. I can't find any photos in the catalog (prior to the upgrade) with a History entry for import, let alone any processing steps. Photos imported and processed since the upgrade date show import and processing dates in the History. A minority of photos show some snapshots, but most snapshots which I know to exist on photos prior to the upgrade date are missing. Where there are some snapshots the History is still blank, not just for the import but also for the processing steps which would have given rise to the snapshots. See attached.