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I recently purchased an Apple Powerbook with M2 chip. When I started to use LRC, I was prompted to update the catalog. Now the catalog won't work on my Intel-based Apple desktop (they show up fine on the laptop).
Is there a way around this?
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Is the version of Lightroom on both computers the same version?
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The fact that you were asked to upgrade the catalog is an indication that the Intel mac is using an older version of Lightroom Classic. Upgrade Lightroom Classic through the Adobe Creative Cloud app and you should be able to use the catalog or copies of it on both Macs. Be sure to keep backup copies of your catalogs.
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Now the catalog won't work on my Intel-based Apple desktop (they show up fine on the laptop).
I go into the import dialog and select the files I want in the catalog and the images are ‘grayed’ out. I select all, but the import button does not ‘light,’ so I cannot import anything. The catalog is stored (with the fotos) on an external SSD drive and they work just fine on the M2 laptop.
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Ok, you need to be more specific with the issue. First, you say the catalog will not work. And yes, if you updated the catalog for a newer LR version, an older LR, presumably on the other computer, couldn't use it. At all!
Now you say you can't import. But the catalog must be running and launched. So that's a totally different issue.
The catalog on the old Intel does open, right?
So copy (duplicate) a document on your desktop. On the Intel Mac, try importing that copy from the desktop; does that work?
Grayed out in Import, you disable "Don't Import Suspected Duplicates" check box; still grayed out?
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OK, here we go again.
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Ok, please humor us.
1. LrC version
Old MAC, what is the LrC version?
New MAC, what is the LrC version
2. EXT Hard drive name
Old MAC, what is the HD name
New MAC, what is the HD name.
3 LrC Catalog names
On the Ext HD, what is the full file name of the catalogs on it. Likely more than one.
4. File structure
Can you share a screenshot of your file structure. This from Finder. Hope to see relationship between catalog location and photo location, as in all in one structure? Or in unrelated folders.
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It really looks like Adobe marked the files in some way when they were flowed into the M2 and they can’t be recognized on the Imac. LRC had to be modified to work with the M2, and I suspect this is another Adobe oversight.
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No, that isn't the case. That you can open the catalog on both machines proves this!
A catalog needs to be updated when a newer version of Lightroom Classic is installed that supports (needs) a newer catalog structure. AND the old catalog will be kept too.
If you have the same version of Lightroom Classic that updated the catalog on an Intel Mac OR an M1/M2 Mac, that catalog can be used. This has nothing to do with importing, which may be another issue that, as yet, isn't clear.
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So why is it that when I updated the catalog for the M2 machine and everything is there, that the Intel machine with the same version of LRC doesn't 'see' any of the images that were there before the catalog upgrade?
The whole import issue came up because I tried (and am still trying) to get the Intel Mac to 'see' the images which are there and show up on the M2 machine.
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Why are you doing something wrong on import? Or elsewhere? Not sure, we need more clarity on what you're doing. It isn't a catalog/M2 issues you are assuming.
The permissions and Privacy settings on that machine are set properly?
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Explain clearly “LRC doesn't 'see' any of the images that were there before the catalog upgrade?”
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I'm having to post this directly because the mailbox of the person who responded is full. This is the text of a response demanding I explain what LRC doesn't 'see' the fotos that it had always 'seen' before the laptop upgrade.
OK. First and foremost I’ve been using Lightroom and then Lightroom classic for at least 20years. I"m not a newb.
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First, let's start with some facts: Intel or M1/M2 (Apple Silicon), the LR catalog is agnostic. This isn't the problem. Full stop.
Anyone who's used LR for "20 years" (an early version of Photoshop Lightroom, formerly named only Lightroom, was released to the public January 9, 2006) would have experienced having to update their catalogs multiple times over its real history.
Files do NOT show up in the catalog per se. This is just like a book library card catalog: like LR; they point to where the photo (books) resides. The new catalog shows you previews? Fine. It doesn't know where they reside. That's a different issue so tell us. They don't show up? Then where's the Previews.lrdata file(s)?
Permissions and privacy:
In System Preferences ((System Settings in Ventura), >Security & Privacy, >Full Disk Access, do you see Lightroom listed? If not, do add it and try again.
Have you even attempted on the 'problematic' catalog to sync the root (or any) folders?
https://helpx.adobe.com/lightroom-classic/help/create-folders.html