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History missing from catalogue after Lightroom Classic Upgrade 8.3

Community Beginner ,
May 15, 2019 May 15, 2019

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Here's the problem and solution.

Problem:

Today I loaded LR Classic and all my history from Jan 2019 to now (May 15, 2019) was gone.

I noticed my catalog was still there and that the upgrade had created a new catalog with a '-2' in the filename.

original file: Personal-2018.lrcat  size: 905,524 KB

upgraded file: Personal-2018-2.lrcat size: 312,976 KB

Based on the size of the upgraded file, something doesn't look right.

So I tried opening the original file using LR classic and it converted the file again, and when it was done, the history is still missing.

As an experiment, I opened the original file with Lightroom CC and I can see all my history up to today, so I know it's there.

So my theory is that something messed up when converting the catalogue and I suspect it is due to the size ot the catalogue, so I thought I would only try to import part of the data that I need. I was hopeful that working with a smaller subset of data would allow me to circumvent the problem.

Solution

Since I know the data is there, as proven by opening the catalogue with LR CC,  here is how I managed to recover the data.

I opened LR Classic and created a new, empty catalogue.

Then I selected the option to import from an existing catalogue (selected the original).

I was able to select which items I wanted to import, so I manually selected all the folders from this year and click ok.

It ran for about 30 minutes, but when it was done I can open Lightroom Classic and access the history I need.

Phew.. I was mostway through editing 800 images from a wedding so would have been choked it I had to redo that.

I think this is an issue that Adobe needs to explore, but I at least hope this helps some of you who may run into similar issues.

Cheers,

David Watson

Calgary Amateur Photographers Group

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Community Beginner , May 25, 2019 May 25, 2019

Sorry, you are wrong - it did not open an old catalog. Lightroom classic 8.3 absolutely converted the current catalog (created a new copy with the name incremented) and if I tried to open the original catalog, it would try to convert it again. I was even working with Adobe support and they could not figure out why it was happening, so I had to solve the problem myself. As I mentioned, I had to create a new catalog and import a smaller portion of the dataset to prevent it from becoming corrupted

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Community Expert ,
May 15, 2019 May 15, 2019

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The upgrade to Lightroom Classic 8.3 does not convert your catalog, unless you upgraded from version 6 or earlier. It sounds like perhaps Lightroom opened an old catalog.

-- Johan W. Elzenga

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May 25, 2019 May 25, 2019

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Sorry, you are wrong - it did not open an old catalog. Lightroom classic 8.3 absolutely converted the current catalog (created a new copy with the name incremented) and if I tried to open the original catalog, it would try to convert it again. I was even working with Adobe support and they could not figure out why it was happening, so I had to solve the problem myself. As I mentioned, I had to create a new catalog and import a smaller portion of the dataset to prevent it from becoming corrupted by the conversion process.

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An upgrade to Lightroom 8.3 does not convert your Lightroom 8.2 catalog, period. If you don’t want to accept that fact, then I can’t help you find out what really happened.

-- Johan W. Elzenga

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