Merging catalogs from different LR versions - with some overlap! How?

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May 24, 2020
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I wonder if anyone has some experience and expertise to recommend the easiest route to

this intimidating task: I have Lightroom CC (2015) and also Lightroom Classic vers 9.2.1 (which I began to use without deleting the previous Lightroom, and foolishly used both for a while without realizing I was

doing it. Now I would like to merge the catalogs and continue using Lightroom Classic exclusively.

Unfortunately, there are many overlaps in the two catalogs, and also many pictures exclusive to each.

To make matters more confusing, the keywording exists for some photos in one catalog (in CC2015) and

the keywords seem to be absent for the same photo in Lightroom Classic.

Where do I begin? Does anyone have a process to recommend?

Many thanks for any thoughts.

Jim

Mac

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cmgap

Community Expert

Go to File>Import from Catalog and select the older catalog. Lightroom will merge the catalog without importing duplicates.

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Sy JamesAuthor

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Thank you - and do you know if the keywording from the older catalog will be discarded if the same photo exists in the newer catalog but without the keyword? I'm wary that this Import from catalog command is a one time thing, and that info discarded will be gone for good... is that a rational fear?