So Lightroom Classic won't sync without upgrade to 14.0?

[Tana Reiff]

Let me get this straight. LR Classic 14.0 and 14.01 are causing a boatload of problems, and there are many recommendations to not upgrade, but syncing has stopped unless I do? Really? Damned if I do, damned if I don't?

[Rikk Flohr: Photography · Accepted solution]

Syncing now requires 13.3 or later - not 14.0

I recommend 13.5.1 for those who want to sync but are not yet ready to upgrade. 

[Tana Reiff]

Thanks. Does 13.5.1 require a complicated catalog  upgrade? 

[Rikk Flohr: Photography]

13.5.1 uses the same catalog as 13.3 and later.  The Catalog upgrades were from 13.2 to 13.3 and from 13.5.1 to 14.0. 

[Tana Reiff]

You say 13.5.1 uses the same catalog as 13.3 and later. I'm still on 13.2. What will be involved with the catalog in upgrading to 13.5.1?

[Tana Reiff]

I'm seeing a lot of reports that LrC slowed down unbearably with 13.3 and higher. I guess that's why I didn't upgrade past 13.1. All of this is looking grim. All I want is to get syncing back. I've been through several Lightroom nightmares and I'm just not up for another one.

[Rikk Flohr: Photography]

An update of the catalog will be required from 13.2 to 13.5. 
Rather than update again, when going from 13.5 to 14.0.1, I would recommend doing the upgrade directly from 13.2 to 14.0.1.  You don't need to juggle two upgrades if you don't need to. 

[Ed225672093apl]

When I tried to sync my v13-3 to 13-5 I must have doen something wrong as now I only have 1100 picutres in that catalogue (v13-5).

If I open up my old catalougue (3-v13-3) I can  see my 135k pictures in that catalogue.  I downloaded the latest version (v14.0) catalogue, did the upgrade BUT it says I am stuck on v13-3?

I am sooooo lost

[Captivating_Dolphin01AC]

Hi I ran into this last night...updated for the new features, then the updated version of LRC on my Mac Studio gave me error messages for the updated catalogue which would not even open!! Said synching error ...etc...So I had to go back to LRC 13 older version to get LRC to open and also move my catalogue back from wher they had put the zipped file ('older catalogues') before I could even access my catalogue and the images. It was so frustrating took me a few hours to get my work back. Somewhere on adobe I found info to remove a synch data file, which I did, but that did not help at all. So I went back to LR 13 something and everything works. Updates should not be released unless they work. Also all catalogues should be backwards compatable. For me, I suppose I will wait a year before trying to upgrade again.