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jLorenzo
Inspiring
July 19, 2018
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Lightroom Catalog Upgrade fault

  • July 19, 2018
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Ok, I had upgraded to LR Classic CC many months ago.  I go to open LR and I get a message stating " We need to upgrade your catalog for use with Lightroom Classic CC.

So the application will not allow me access to the catalog until you do the upgrade so i did the upgrade.

LR re-opened only that it had an older version from 02.12.2017.  I'm also missing all of 2018 images and folders,  I've been doing backup every week without fail.

I can see in the catalog location that a file with the recent date prior to the upgraded one still exist, however, LR it wants to upgrade this too.

I told LR to import this catalog into the newer catalog.

Can anyone tell me what is happening and why now and how to resolves this issue.

Thanks Jon

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    Correct answer jLorenzo

    Got it resolved,

    It appeared that when LR did an automated upgrade it stuff up the process.

    I had to run a previous version v7.3.1 to be exact

    open my catalog and all was good.  Then I did a manual install from CC.

    The upgrade this time had my 2018 folder minus the last shoot, which I was able to scan the disk and update folder location and do a sync to get it all back to the way it was.

    Adobe needs to ask permission to do an upgrade vs making it a forced process.

    Thanks all

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    ayonyz
    Participant
    November 10, 2019

    Same exact thing I can see my file my lrcat backup is there and contains something I just went back to a previous version but I'm still having trouble 

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    Retro1944
    Participant
    February 6, 2020

    After my catalogue was updated, the whole year of 2019 is missing. Super frustrating.

    ManiacJoe
    ManiacJoe
    Inspiring
    February 7, 2020

    Exit LR, then do the catalog migration again by opening the old catalog. See if the migration runs correctly this time.

    J
    jLorenzoAuthorCorrect answer
    Inspiring
    July 21, 2018

    Got it resolved,

    It appeared that when LR did an automated upgrade it stuff up the process.

    I had to run a previous version v7.3.1 to be exact

    open my catalog and all was good.  Then I did a manual install from CC.

    The upgrade this time had my 2018 folder minus the last shoot, which I was able to scan the disk and update folder location and do a sync to get it all back to the way it was.

    Adobe needs to ask permission to do an upgrade vs making it a forced process.

    Thanks all

    MarekMularczyk
    Community Expert
    MarekMularczykCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    July 19, 2018

    Find the "upgraded" catalogue using Explorer/Finer (Win/Mac) and double-click on it and it will open in Lightroom. It sounds like you're trying to open the older catalogue as Lightroom won't prompt you for an upgrade until a new full version comes out.

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    jLorenzoAuthor
    Inspiring
    July 20, 2018

    I double click on the file (Lightroom Catalog.lrcat) and it opens a dialog box stating upgraded version of Catalog found.

    Then it ask if I would like to use the newer, upgraded catalog instead.

    choices are:

    Selected (Old)

    Updated catalog (New)

    you can only select Yes, use the newer which is missing the 2018 folder or the No, upgrade the older Catalog and this just repeats the process it has been through twice already, so there is no way to open the older catalog.

    What I'm going to do is go back to before the upgrade and open the old one if possible.

    ManiacJoe
    ManiacJoe
    Inspiring
    July 20, 2018

    Using Mac Finder or Windows File Explorer, search your hard drive(s) for the *.LrCat files you have.

    If your catalog is named "Lightroom Catalog.LrCat", any upgraded catalog will contain a "-2" at the end of the filename unless you have renamed the new file since then.

    dj_paige
    dj_paige
    Legend
    July 19, 2018

    You have opened/upgraded the wrong catalog file.

    In LIghtroom, go to File->Open Recent and select each catalog shown there until you find the one with the 2018 images.

    J
    jLorenzoAuthor
    Inspiring
    July 20, 2018

    "I" didn't open any catalog, the program did the upgrade and it opened a catalog.  The problem is it has opened the an older catalog and that is missing the entire year, when I did this manually it still is missing the entire 2018 year of folders, so what the hell is going on? Do I have to point LR to the folder and have it re-import all of 2018?

    This upgrade has to be the worst I've seen.  I do my backup weekly and where and how its deciding to use an older or just dump 2018 altogether is just not on.

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