How to move from Lightroom Classic to Lightroom CC

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June 30, 2019
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I just signed up for Lightroom CC. However, I have been using Lightroom Classic and want to move everything from Classic to CC. I have over 13,000 photos in dozens of albums in Classic. I have looked around the discussions and tutorials and maybe I've missed something, but I need to find the process of moving all my Classic photos, albums keywords, etc, to the new Lightroom CC. Can anyone help?

Many thanks,

Carl

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Jao vdL

Community Expert

Except if you really want to have all your images in the cloud I would strongly emphasize Theresa’s caution. the Cloud Lightroom misses almost all of classic’s essential features such as printing, export to anything but jpegs, hierarchical keywords, slideshows, books, virtual copies, smart collections. Only go to cloud Lightroom if all you ever do is share low res jpegs on the web once in a while (and ironically the desktop cloud Lightroom is bad at that too) and like that your images show up on all your devices in the same way. Cloud Lightroom is pretty neat if you have very limited needs. For almost everybody Classic is where you should be. Just make sure migrating is the right decision for you. Adobe’s marketing materials do not actually help you make this choice well.

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Carl AsplerAuthor

Participant

Thanks for the suggestions. I am now deciding that I should keep using Classic. I also can't imagine changing my folders to collections, etc.. I upgraded to CC because I also wanted a newer version of Photoshop. Mine is ancient and stopped working...

JP Hess

Inspiring

Classic is a "newer" version of Lightroom that is being updated as aggressively as Lightroom for the cloud. They are just two different versions of Lightroom for users with different needs. I think others have fairly cautioned you about making the decision to switch.

Theresa J

Community Expert

First, are you absolutely sure you want to do this? Second, are you sure your plan includes enough storage for all of your images? If yes, here is the help page for migrating from Classic to Lightroom Migrate photos and videos from Lightroom Classic to Lightroom

Most important thing to understand is that you will lose your folder structure. You will need to create albums (same as collections in Classic) to be organized.