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Ken Nielsen
Ken Nielsen
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May 25, 2024
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Need guidance to create a new catalog- and then import existing catalog photos into

  • May 25, 2024
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I need to re-create my Lightroom catalog as I suspect the existing catalog is corrupt as it cannot be backed up. I've hired consultants to help but only result now is I've created a new empty catalog and found that indeed it can be backed up. So now for the second step. bringing in the existing library of photos so that it shows up nice and organized as it did in the old catalog. I've tried importing twice now and wind up with a mess both times. Where can I find straightforward help to accomplish this?

 

TIA,

Ken

    解決に役立った回答 richardplondon

    Okay, perfect, but now it only exported one folder with 21 images not the entire catalog. Do I need to select the folders? it will only let me select one image at a time so I don't think that is the isslue. Selecting nothing would be best. You would think that expporting catalog would be enough to export the entire catalog and not just individual items. I'll be so glad when this is resolved.

     


    Did you click in All Photographs? AFAICT this feature exports whatever is currently showing in the Filmstrip / in Grid view.  So if you are clicked to view just a certain folder, then that folder's contents is the maximum you will get. Furthermore, if you've also checked the option "Export selected photos only", you won't necessarily get all of those even - perhaps none - depending on which photos within that folder are currently highlighted (selected).

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    Bogiebooo
    Inspiring
    May 26, 2024
    I had something very similar to this happen to me after I downloaded Version 13….I ended up calling Adobe…800-833-6687…the lady I spoke to at Adobe put me through to some tech guy…..I also couldn’t export to PS……He said I needed to send them my catalogue…he took control of my computer and got the catalogue…within 24 hours Adobe contacted me that they had corrected my catalogue and they wanted to send it back…they did so and they also helped me reload the catalogue….Everything works find now.
      Ken Nielsen
      Ken Nielsen作成者
      Legend
      May 26, 2024

      This is probably what I will need to do and hopefully will have the good fortune that you've had. After wrestling with this for months now. Thanks Boglebooo for the tip. It will be so good to have this resolved and a catalog working normally again.

      R
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      richardplondonCommunity Expert
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      May 25, 2024

      In the new empty catalog - you do know NOT to use "import photos and videos", right?

       

      Rather, you want "import from another catalog" - the screenshot is from Windows but I am sure MacOS will have a similar menu.

       

       

      The outcome is that the existing catalog's information about:
      what images are imported from what folders, how those are organised virtually (Collections, keywords etc), how edited and with what History - all gets merged in wholesale. 

       

      Ken Nielsen
      Ken Nielsen作成者
      Legend
      May 26, 2024

      Here we go with the second part of doing the import, and that would be selecting the options:
      I gather that I'll see a window after I select the catalog file with a breakdown of catalog contents, folders with my negative files. You mention Richard, to click into "All Photographs" and to make sure "Export selected photos only" is left un-checked. All file locations will remain the same so un-check "Export negative files" (oddly named as you mention) and I don't see the 'negative files' mentioned yet. Ratings, metadata, and/or edits will be preserved if I choose "do nothing.'

      Now, as a last question before I do anything I want to understand at this point I should be able to proceed. I will do nothing until I hear what you have to say about what I've written down here. I don't want to add anything or change anything, just import the old catalog contents into the new. Does all of this look okay to you? If any comments please let me know as I'm ready to try this tonight. Thanks for your help Richard.


       

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        richardplondonCommunity Expert
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        May 26, 2024

        I have tried repeatedly, it lets me create new catalog, I close the old and open the new and then choos 'import from catalog' then it acts like it is going to try to import and then nothing. No files are imported and I'm left with an empty catalog repeatedly.  I'm following all of the steps and it should work but it doesn't. What could I be doing wrong?

        1: Create a brand new catalog.

        2: Verify that you can backup this new catalog.

        3: Choose 'File - Import from Another Catalog' and select your old catalog.

        4: In the dialog that follows, select to import all new photos but do not move them.

        5: This will create a copy of your old catalog. Check that you can still make a backup.


        so - you do see a dialog similar to the one below, and chose the same option?

         

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