Today's LrC update broke my catalog

[danielin5656]

Hi,

Today I opened Lightroom Classic and found I had to update my catalog to open it due to the recent update (14.0.1)

After the catalog update, I have lost ALL pictures in my catalog except for the ones done in the last week, the collections are there but they are fully empty.

Please tell me this can be fixed, I had in there collections of my late wife going back years. I can't see myself redoing thousands of pictures. This is breaking me.

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[JohanElzenga]

What recent update was that? You need to give more information. The update from 14.0 to 14.0.1 does not require a catalog upgrade, so if that happened to you then almost certainly Lightroom open some old catalog after the update.

[danielin5656 · Accepted solution]

Well, I opened up Lightroom and my version was 14.0.1. and I got a popup window explaining some new AI features. I do not know when the update to 14 happened so it might have been all at once.

In any case, I checked that the catalog I was opening (and was updated) was the latest one and most collections, except for the last two I had created, were empty.

I proceeded to copy all my backup catalogs to a safe location and open a recent one from roughly a month ago. This was updated and it had all my collections from years ago, so I proceeded to re-create the last two collections and now I seem to have a working catalog.

I have gone through lots of updates with LrC, having used it for 10 years, this is the first time a catalog update due to version change has broken something this extensively.

[JohanElzenga · Accepted solution]

Find you old Lightroom Classic 13 catalog. It should be in an 'Old catalogs' folder inside your catalog folder. Or use the latest catalog backup from before this incident. Replace your current catalog (and the catalog.lrcat-data) with it. Open Lightroom Classic 14 and let it upgrade again.

[danielin5656]

Thank you, that is exactly what I did.

[JohanElzenga]

So did it work?

[danielin5656]

Yes, it did