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October 25, 2017
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P: Restore Import from external catalog over LAN?

  • October 25, 2017
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After the update to Lightroom Classic CC on both of my systems I am not able to import from the catalog on the other computer via ethernet. I get an error message that the external catalog seems to be a non valid Lightroom-catalog. On the other computer the catalog works.

I run Lightroom on an iMac and a MacBook. Usually I import pictures to my MacBook to sort and develop them - for example when I am traveling. From time to time I use the functionality "import from another catalog" on my iMac to get the new pictures from the catalog which is stored on the MacBook via LAN/WLAN. In the previous version this was working fine. Since the update to Lightroom Classic CC I see the error message above.

When I copy the catalog and the negative files from my MacBook into a folder on my iMac I am able to import them into the iMac catalog. So the issue should have to do with access via network.

    Correct answer Rikk Flohr_Photography
    The team has carefully reviewed the outstanding issue regarding import from an external catalog over a LAN and will not be making any further changes in current (7.x) functionality or planned future functionality in this regard. Though we realize it may have been possible to do this in previous versions, Lightroom was not designed nor intended to allow the import of an external catalog over a LAN.

    Thank you for your patience while we researched this request.

    (Note: edited to include versions beyond 7.x)

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    FeedbackCommunityMemberAuthor
    Inspiring
    March 21, 2018
    I to am having this problem.  Sunil is your last comment of ADOBE is not fixing it still standing?  If so what other solutions can you suggest?  
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    FeedbackCommunityMemberAuthor
    Inspiring
    March 8, 2018
    Sunil, what is Adobe planning on doing to fix this? Any time frame?
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    FeedbackCommunityMemberAuthor
    Inspiring
    February 28, 2018
    What kind of time frame are we looking at for a fix to this issue?
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    ChristophvS
    Participating Frequently
    February 19, 2018
    Oops I underestimated The remaining programmers. It works know!
    It removes empty folders. Of course with no information to the user at all.
    Wy bother?
    At least there is a message that the structure and files will be kept when a folder isn't empty. That at least, is even clever.
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    ChristophvS
    Participating Frequently
    February 19, 2018
    Eric, there is a step between. I just tested following a bit lesser pain in the ass:
    Be connected to my notebook through finder. 
    Copy the external catalog as you do.
    Open it and search the missing image files on the notebook.
    Open the main catalog.
    Proceed the import with the now local catalog
    The files are then on the main computer with the edits.

    I still don't know how to set the image-path to avoid moving the files one more time to have them at the right place in the main structure.

    Perhaps, when Adobe, some day, comes back from the cloud, pays analystes and programmer instead of marketing managers and lawyers, we will be able to have:
    - several catalogs open at the same time
    - the ability of moving and copying from one catalog to another without headache. 
    - and by the way, be able to remove, with proper precaution, at least empty folders from the disk structure.
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    ChristophvS
    Participating Frequently
    February 19, 2018
    @391543
    How right.
    Professional photographies are valuables. If they have to be kept outside my venues, than in a bank save and certainly not on a cloud. the very name of this digital "thing" says how undefined and unstable it is (meant to be).
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    ChristophvS
    Participating Frequently
    February 19, 2018
    And there is no mean to go on the street, before a judge, vote for an other party and, and, and...
    Even buying by an other competitor isn't possible.
    Western society and western economy has a very huge flaw here!
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    garyrowe
    Participating Frequently
    February 5, 2018
    So, Adobe have removed previously-available functionality, but don't see this as a problem ... way to go, Adobe. Why am I not more surprosed?
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    erics14009476
    Participant
    February 5, 2018
    I had the chance to test this over AFP networking and same issue occurred. So it appears that this is simply a regression: 1) Lightroom adds constraint preventing the use of catalogs over network for interactive work, 2) Import from catalogs over the network breaks.

    At the least, the error message that the catalog is invalid is totally wrong.
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    FeedbackCommunityMemberAuthor
    Inspiring
    February 5, 2018
    Would their reason for not fixing it be that you are then more likely to move to Lightroom CC, the cloud-based version, where sharing catalogs, if I understand things correctly, is its raison d'etre? Cynical?
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