Moving from LR6 to LRC

[mikecanonbury]

I have LR6 on perpetual licence running on Apple IOS Sierra on a 2015 MacBook. I am moving to Apple Sequoia on a new MacBook which wont support the old LR6, so I need to subscribe to LRC. I want to ensure that all the photos (c150k) I have catalogued in LR6 come over in their existing folders to LRC. AND, of course, that all my edits come too. But as I don't use the cloud, I can't use the  'migrate' facility. So how do I do his? If I plug the hard drive where LR6 is stored - images, catalogues and edits - into the new MacBook with LRC installed, will LRC simply find them when I open it?

[dj_paige]

You purchase a subscription to the Adobe Photography Plan (20 GB storage) — and not the 1TB storage — and then you can use Lightroom Classic. Open Lightroom Classic (do NOT open Lightroom which is different software), then use the command File->Open Catalog, point to the Lr 6 catalog, it will be converted to LrC 14, and you're done.

[mikecanonbury]

Thank you for your reply.

Before buying LRC I opted for the 7 day trial to see how the catalogue
import would work, but there is no option available under File to select my
catalogue! See the screenshot of my File menu below. ALSO, I chose the
Lr/PS/LrC option but the free trial seems to only provide Lr when what I
want is LrC. Do you know anything about this?
[image: Screenshot 2024-11-15 at 16.54.50.png]

[dj_paige]

Did you use the link to the Adobe Photography Plan that I gave above? The free trial should include LrC PS and Lr

If you open the Adobe Creative Cloud app, and then click on Apps (as shown below), you should see Lightroom Classic and for you the button should say "Install" whereas in the screen capture it says "Open"

[mikecanonbury]

Many thanks for that. Not at all obvious! Only Lr installed automatically and I was not presented with an option to install the other parts of the package. 

[GoldingD]

Your screenshot is not available. Perhaps, did you reply via Email? That would cause that result.

[mikecanonbury]

You are right, I did reply by email. But the first reply I got to my query sorted the issue. I took a free trial for Lr, PS and LrC but only Lr installed automatically without offering an option to install the other two. I assumned the wrong free trial had been provided, but the other programmes were in an Apps folder that I had to locate. This is not at all intuitive.

[dj_paige]

I have the Photography Plan, LrC and PS installed. The Adobe Creative Cloud app has never, by itself, installed Lr and also I have never installed Lr.

[mikecanonbury]

Well I certainly have Lr as welll as LrC, although I don't actually want the former. Here's a screenshot of what I got.

 

[dj_paige]

You have missed the point. You said "I took a free trial for Lr, PS and LrC but only Lr installed automatically without offering an option to install the other two. I assumned the wrong free trial had been provided, but the other programmes were in an Apps folder that I had to locate. This is not at all intuitive."

I said that never happened to me, Lr did not automatically install itself.

[mikecanonbury]

Can I trouble you with another question arising from my change over from perpetual licence to subscription LrC? 

My images & catalogue are on an external drive that is not compatible with the new MacBook on which I intend running LrC. I propose copying everything from the old drive to a new one that the MacBook will read.

BUT when I open the catalogue on the new external drive, can I assume LrC will will find the associated photographs (150k of them)?

I ask this because I already have an exact copy of the primary hard drive for backip purposes (on another older drive that isn't compatible with the new MacBook either), but when I open the catalogue on that drive (on my old MacBook of course), it doesn't see the images.

Every image has the ! symbol. When I click on the ! and select 'locate', the image is exactly where it should be on the copied disk. LR is obviously not connecting the copied catalogue to the copied images.

I assume I am missing someting very obvious, but don't know what!

I need to know how to solve the problem before I get yet another external drive and recopy everything yet again.