Lightroom Classic

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April 15, 2025
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I have installed Lightroom Classic on my new desktop but it is not recognising my catalogue which is on an external drive. The catalogue works on my laptop. Any suggestions please? I am working in windows 11.

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AxelMatt

Community Expert

What do you mean with " it is not recognising my catalogue"? Please give us more details.

Is you external drive is connected correctly? Do you see it in the Explorer?

If the drive connected, what happened if you try to open the appropriate catalog via the menu File - Open Catalog...

My System: Intel i7-8700K - 64GB RAM - NVidia Geforce RTX 3060 - Windows 11 Pro 25H2 -- LR-Classic 15 - Photoshop 27 - Nik Collection 8 - PureRAW 5 - Topaz Photo

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KatrelleAuthor

Participant

When I double click on the catalogue file on the hard drive Lightroom opens and the catalogue name is shown on the header but shows no files and and asks me to click on import to continue.

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KatrelleAuthor

Participant

Then this is an empty catalog, and you need to find the non-empty catalog. Use your operating system's search feature to search for all files on all disk(s) whose name ends with .LRCAT; open each one until you find that catalog that you want.

When I open the same catalogue on my laptop it loads as normal!

dj_paige

Legend

Try this: in Windows Explorer, find the catalog file on the external drive (named ends with .LRCAT, probably in lower case) and double-click on it.

If that doesn't work, please explain "it is not recognising my catalog" in a lot more detail.

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