File structure in Lightroom CC

[LynnPassionart]

I have been using LR for some time and have 31,000 images in my pictures folder. I use a Mac. I recently upgraded to the Creative Suite with all aps in order to get my images stored in the cloud. I upgraded my storage to 1TB at that time. I was told by adobe that LR Classic would not function with the cloud and that I needed to use CC to get my images to the cloud. I moved one folder to the cloud using CC, those images can be found in both Classic and in CC. The problem is the library. The data associated with those images is not present. The file structure, keywords, cropping etc are not present. I went back and found a library that had been backed up at the end of July and again in on August 10th which was 3 days before the upgrade. This was all started because I had a hard drive fail at the end of July and got my new drive and restored from a back up just before the upgrade. 

Now if I try to open that backed up library, I receive this error message.

"The LR catalog can not be opened because it is too new to be used by this version of LR. Would you like to select a different catalog?"

My goal is to get my images to the cloud and to have my file structure and LR catalog available.

[Rikk Flohr: Photography]

If you go to Help>System Info…, what version(s) of Lightroom is currently installed?

Lightroom Classic CC7.5, released last week, is the current version. It sounds like you are attempting to use Lightroom CC2015.x (the previous version) to open a Lightroom Classic CC 7.x catalog. Install Lightroom Classic to open your older catalog backup.

Next, the Lightroom CC that is mentioned as being the cloud-based Lightroom version is not Lightroom CC2015.x but rather Lightroom CC (which is currently on version 1.5).

Use the Adobe Creative Cloud App to install both Lightroom Classic CC and Lightroom CC (7.5 and 1.5 are the versions). Lightroom Classic CC will open your backup catalog. Once you are certain it is ready, use the Catalog Migrator tool in Lightroom CC 1.5 to move your Lightroom Classic CC catalog into the cloud.