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McKian
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November 6, 2023
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Lightroom 13 deleting any Develop settings

  • November 6, 2023
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I updated to Lightroom 13.1 but when I clicked on my default catalog it crashed near the end of loading. The entire catalog got corrupt and placed in another folder but they were able to save the catalog.

 

The issues haven't stopped there though. All of my images won't pop up with a thumbnail unless I click on them which is making it difficult to find specific pictures. The biggest issue is I can see an image that I have developed already but I can't continue to edit them. When I bring it into Develop all of my edits disappear and it reverts back to absolutely to a reset image. 

 

Obviously I don't want to destroy all my previous edits by using this version of Lightroom. Any help?

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    Sean McCormack
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    Sean McCormackCommunity Expert
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    November 6, 2023

    There's a lot to unpack there. First of all, the 12.X catalog isn't touched by the upgrade process. A temporary catalog is created and that is upgraded. The previews are taken though as it's easier to transfer previews. 

     

    You should be able to upgrade the previous catalog again. Your previews may be lost,  but that's a matter of selecting folders and generating them from the Library>Previews>Build Standard Sized Previews menu.. 

     

    You say 'They'.. who is they? 

    Sean McCormack. Author of 'Essential Development 3'. Magazine Writer. Former Official Fuji X-Photographer.
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    McKianAuthor
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    November 6, 2023

    Sorry, "it" was able to save the catalog or to at least make an update on the second try despite crashing and corrupting the first attempt. It saved the corrupted file for some reason. Just mentioning it in case it mattered not because it is a current problem.

     

    I can build previews, that's not the big issue. The big issue is that it is reverting all my previous edits. I was mentioning the previews because it was another weird aspect of the new Lightroom version.

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    McKianAuthor
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    November 9, 2023

    @ouiouiphoto Yep, that's probably the only other alternative. 

     

    @McKian Unless you can get an engineer to look at it, that's about it. 


    I mean, my Lightroom 12 catalog isn't having any issues. It is just my version of 13 that refused to work. 

     

    I'm just not going to follow those instructions because I honestly don't have time to shut down all my work just to hope that these instructions make a difference based on little information. It feels like Adobe released a bad new version of Lightroom and I'm going to hop through days of fixing it to just find out there is no solution. It's like suggestioning to someone to entirely reinstall their computer to fix a bad OS patch. Maybe in a few months I'll have time but this has been entirely unhelpful. 

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