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April 1, 2024
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Catalog file location for new Lightroom 7.2?

  • April 1, 2024
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Can somebody please help me if there is a catalog file for LR 7.2? Is there a way to move a full edited cagalog to LRC! (MacOS)

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JohanElzenga
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April 2, 2024

Lightroom creates a Library file, not a catalog file. It is called 'Lightroom Library.lrlibrary' and is hard-wired to be stored in your Pictures folder. You can't move it to another location. It is not really a catalog (like Rob said, the catalog is in the cloud) but a cache to speed things up by keeping certain stuff locally.

 

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Rob_Cullen
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April 2, 2024

"is a catalog file for LR 7.2?" Well there is kinda, but you won' t see if because its master copy exists in the Lightroom Cloud.

"Is there a way to move a full edited catalog to LRC!" Simply, No. But you can set up Lightroom-Classic to sync so that all photos in Lr download to the LrC Catalog.   SYNC SETUP IN CLASSIC 

The sync can download the photos to a Dated Folder structure, and TBMK any Albums in Lr will create equivalent Collections in the LrC catalog.

 

Regards. My System: Windows-11, Lightroom-Classic 15.1.1, Photoshop 27.3.1, ACR 18.1.1, Lightroom 9.0, Lr-iOS 10.4.0, Bridge 16.0.2 .