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hypcx
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October 19, 2022
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P: All history lost when upgrading catalog

  • October 19, 2022
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Hello. I updated to LR 12 classic this morning. After it converted my catalog, it crashed stating that the catalog was corrupt. It then repaired it. It then crashed again, stating that the catalog was corrupt.

 

The first corrupt catalog is 1.6GB. The second is 1.2GB.

 

It then repaired it again. This final catalog is 300MB and contains zero history. The photos are in their last edited state, but I can not go back to previous steps nor copy settings to another file.

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    Murseblonder
    Murseblonder
    Known Participant
    December 26, 2022

    Checking on some older photos (all before 2022) I realize that the complete protocol (history of single steps in developing) is lost. Would anyone have an idea why this happens and if I could possibly recover the protocol?

     

    macOS Ventura 13.1

    LR Classic 12.1

    Camera Raw 15.1

    Murseblonder
    Murseblonder
    Known Participant
    December 26, 2022

    even worse: all history before say Nov 2022 is lost.

    johnrellis
    johnrellis
    Legend
    December 27, 2022

    A number of people have reported lost History steps when upgrading their catalog to LR 12:

    https://community.adobe.com/t5/lightroom-classic-bugs/p-all-history-lost-when-upgrading-catalog/idi-p/13280418

     

    Read carefully through that thread to see if any of the posted workarounds might help you.

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    HolgerD
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    December 9, 2022

    In my case upgrading the LR 11 catalog on a different computer solved the problem. I have LR 12 also on my laptop, a somewhat "cleaner" installation without any third-party plugins etc. Upgraded the catalog to LR12 on this laptop (no problems), moved the upgraded catalog to my main computer. So far no problems with the catalog, no data corruption. 

    Not sure what exactly caused the problems (maybe a plugin?), but it seems to be a problem with the installation on my main computer, not the catalog itself. 

     

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    hypcxAuthor
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    November 28, 2022

    I'm tentatively happy to state that, with 12.0.1, I am not having the data loss. I'll keep poking at the catalog and will prepare copies if the situation repeats.

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    hypcxAuthor
    Known Participant
    November 28, 2022

    Whoops, I spoke too soon. Same behavior.

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    hypcxAuthor
    Known Participant
    November 11, 2022

    Has there been any progress looking into this? It appears to be a somewhat common problem.

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    HolgerD
    Known Participant
    November 13, 2022

    I'm also wondering, if Adobe is aware of this bug and trying to fix it in future versions? 

    This thread is sorted under "discussions", not under "bugs", so I'm not sure if Adobe recognises this issue as a bug. Maybe someone has to write a bug report?

     

    Rikk Flohr_Photography
    Community Manager
    Rikk Flohr_PhotographyCommunity Manager
    November 13, 2022

    If you review the thread, you will see that LrC engineers are active on the thread. 

     

    We have not been able to produce this internally and the team is collecting information from some of the earlier reporters.  If confirmed as a bug, it will be moved to the bug section. 

    Rikk Flohr: Adobe Photography Org
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      hypcxAuthor
      Known Participant
      November 6, 2022

      A new development. When I launch a LR11.5, it tries to upgrade the catalog to V12 despite V12 not being installed. What gives?

       

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      hypcxAuthor
      Known Participant
      November 6, 2022

      Uninstalling and reinstalling 11.5 solved that for now.

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      Hannah268949518f0m
      Participant
      November 1, 2022

      Hello,

       

      I am wondering if anyone can help me figure out what's going on.

       

      I updated my Lightroom Classic to the new 12.0.1 version. It said it would need to upgrade my catalog - which I did.

       

      I am on MacOS Big Sur 11.7 , Macbook Pro

       

      Now all my photo edit histories are gone. The images still appear in the catalog however I edited them last (have attached a screenshot where you can see I have edit the image to BW but shows no history for my editing), but I can't step back and look at the edit history of the photos (ie: see what steps I had taken to edit, or step back a few etc). The history shows no adjustments. The only option I can do is reset - which just goes back to the Raw.

       

      Is there anything I can do to get the edit history details back for my images?

       

      Thanks in adavance

       

      Hannah

       

      [moved from bugs to discussions - Mod.]

      Chris 486
      Community Expert
      Chris 486Community Expert
      Community Expert
      November 1, 2022

      When lightroom upgrades a catalog it will make a new file. You can open your v11 catalogue still by going to the location where it is saved. It will still be there.

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      Hannah268949518f0m
      Participant
      November 1, 2022

       

       

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      MapM8ker
      Participant
      October 28, 2022

      when editing a photo after the recent upgrade that previous history is not reflected. I can see the masks that I built, but not any of the edits I did to them. I cannot go back and click on import or see how i got the image to where it is. New edits populate the history panel, but I can see no way to go back to the original.

      See screenshot. Upper right shows the masks I built previously. Lower left shows where the history starts today after I upgraded. Yes, history is scrolled completely to the bottom.

      This is a big flaw.

      Oh and it is SLOW and has crashed and corrupted my catalog twice.  I've rolled back to v11.

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      hypcxAuthor
      Known Participant
      October 29, 2022

      Yes that's the exact behavior I experienced.

      Isabel Picard
      Isabel Picard
      Participant
      October 28, 2022

      I have exactly the same problem! Is there a solution?

       

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      hypcxAuthor
      Known Participant
      October 28, 2022

      Not as of yet. I've provided my catalog for them to review, and they have some questions but I'm away from home until Sunday so I can't answer yet.

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      Pikkymaster
      Known Participant
      October 22, 2022

      I posted a question re loss of history a few days ago, in my case some files have history, some have partial history and some have no history. There must be a way to solve this??? 

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        hypcxAuthor
        Known Participant
        October 23, 2022

        That's odd. I didn't look at every file (I think it's on the order of 30,000 in that particular catalog), but every one I did had no history.

         

        Did yours show up like mine, in their edited form?

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        Pikkymaster
        Known Participant
        October 23, 2022

        Yes all images were as edited but without re-importing the original file I can't revert back to an earlier version of the edit. 

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        HolgerD
        Known Participant
        October 22, 2022

        I have the same problem (running Windows 11 Home 64-bit). Converting an 1.9 GB catalog worked fine, but on the next start LR 12 classic reported an currupt catalog. After the repair the catalog has 1.4 GB and the development protcol is gone, the panel shows nothing. 

        I did this twice (deleteted the LR 12 catalog and opened/converted the LR 11 catalog again in LR 12 classic) with the same result. 

         

        Maybe I'll go back to LR 11.5 and wait for an solution to this problem.

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