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damianc13121259
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February 9, 2019
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Transferring catalog to a new computer

  • February 9, 2019
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Hello,

I bought a new laptop recently but I was reluctant to bring over all of my previous work due to the space issues.

I have now decided to keep only the photos I'm currently working on on my laptop and keep the rest on a hard drive i have at home so i can just connect that if I've ever to get at my old photos.

I have all of the photos on my new laptop moved over to the hard drive and everything works flawlessly from what i can see.

I then transferred all of my imaged from my old laptop in the same manor to the hard drive but when I connected it to lightroom the images showed up but with no smart previews or editing done on them etc.
This was before i transferred over my catalog.

I then transferred the Catalog and attempted to import that to my new laptop to no avail.

I'm now moving my backups and Preview folders to the external hard drive but once this is done I have no idea what to do form there.

Can anybody offer me some advice?

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dj_paige
dj_paige
Legend
February 9, 2019

Complete instructions, step-by-step

https://www.lightroomqueen.com/how-move-lightroom-to-new-computer/

Please note, there is no importing of photos in this procedure.

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damianc13121259作成者
Participant
February 9, 2019

I have done all of these steps but the issue is I began a new catalog when i got the new laptop, Im not sure how to link these that i can access the old laptop images from the new laptop when i connect my hard drive.

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damianc13121259作成者
Participant
February 10, 2019

damianc13121259  wrote

I have done all of these steps but the issue is I began a new catalog when i got the new laptop, Im not sure how to link these that i can access the old laptop images from the new laptop when i connect my hard drive.

Assuming you now have both the old catalog and new catalog on the new computer, you just need to merge the two catalogs into one.

Open the old catalog, then "import from catalog" using the new catalog.

After the new catalog is merged into the old catalog, thus making the old catalog the master catalog, you may need to do a "find missing" on any folders or files from the old catalog that still reference the old hard drive(s).


I have tried this but its just making doubles of almost half of the files and now im left with half catalogs merged together and missing some of the images.
Im really after hitting a wall and I'm unsure what to do,

I have access to all of my images but raw and jpg but its the develops and metadata is gettign lost along the way.

JP Hess
JP Hess
Inspiring
February 9, 2019

If your images are still in the same folder structure on the new computer as they were on the old computer, and the hard drive has the same name or same letter designation as it had on the old computer, then all that should be necessary is for you to locate that catalog that you moved to the new laptop and double-click on it. Lightroom should start and should find everything in place and you should be ready to go.

If the hard drive has a new name, or the images are organized differently, then this article might help.

Adobe Lightroom - Find moved or missing files and folders

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