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Kemal Y
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November 4, 2017
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The Lightroom Catalog is empty!

  • November 4, 2017
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I changed my Mac to a new one...

I installed Lightroom to the new Mac.

Went to my Lightroom folder - the one with my original library which is supposed to have all my photos.

When opening this "Lightroom Catalog" it is totally empty... no photos.

- This folder and the photos are all together in the same folder as before changing the Mac (they are on a external disc)

- The structure is the same as before. In this folder nothing changed.

- The cloud backup built up in the same way act also as described

Anybody heard about this problem before?

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    Correct answer JP Hess

    Is it possible that you have created a new catalog? In the library module, go to Lightroom->Open Recent and see if there are other catalogs listed. If there are then choose one of the other catalogs and see if your images were imported to the other catalog.

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    JP Hess
    JP Hess
    Inspiring
    November 5, 2021

    You have indicated several times that you have opened the catalog "on the server". What does that mean? The catalog for Lightroom Classic cannot reside on a server. It must reside on a hard drive that is LOCAL to the computer that is running LrC. Please explain what you mean by server.

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    Tana Reiff
    Known Participant
    November 5, 2021

    Did I refer to a server? If I did, I meant the Adobe Cloud. My Lightroom catalog is on my internal HD and is backed up every night to an external HD.

    JP Hess
    JP HessCorrect answer
    Inspiring
    November 4, 2017

    Is it possible that you have created a new catalog? In the library module, go to Lightroom->Open Recent and see if there are other catalogs listed. If there are then choose one of the other catalogs and see if your images were imported to the other catalog.

    K
    Kemal YAuthor
    Participant
    November 4, 2017

    Hi...
    It is not a new catalog. I opened the catalog directly from the normal position in the server - as always with the former catalog.
    The same result goes also when I try to open the backup.

    JP Hess
    JP Hess
    Inspiring
    November 4, 2017

    Do I understand correctly that you have your catalog on a server? That doesn't work with Lightroom. The catalog must be on a local hard drive. The images can be on a network server, but not the catalog.

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