How to transfer Library?

[Bubbly_Ray5C13]

Hello,

I am transfering my Lightroom library from my work email account, to a new personal account. How do I do this? I want to move everything form this account to the new account.

Thanks...

[Sameer K]

Hey, @Bubbly_Ray5C13. Welcome to the Lightroom Community. I'll help you get started with this.

There isn't an account-level option that you can use for this task. You'll have to use Lightroom downloader: https://adobe.ly/3Xr2Roq

You will need to export Lightroom Edit presets manually from the Presets tab by right-clicking and choosing 'Export presets.'

Contact our team via live chat for help with other possible options here: https://adobe.ly/3XhpFbx

If you want to make any changes to your account, you'll need access and permission from the subscription Admin.

Thanks!

Sameer K

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[selondon]

@Bubbly_Ray5C13 

You could try the shared album and contribute route, which hopefully should work......

• Create Album on Personal account.
• Enable Sharing for that Album.
• Invite email ID associated to your Work account (if that's possible?)
• Ensure you give the Work account Can Contribute rights in the Link Settings.
• Accept email invite linked to the Work account and sign in to Work account
• Add Photos to the Album that’s shared with you from the Personal account.

This will transfer photos over including edits without having to export the photos.

You could transfer all photos to that one Album and sort them from there. However it maybe easier to mirror your Albums in the new account and share each one (although you will have to accept an email for each album).

Maybe do a test first.

[Bubbly_Ray5C13]

If i use my old account to share, will i loose access to the photos? the
old account will be deleted because my work is discontinuing their
lightroom subscription.

[selondon]

@Bubbly_Ray5C13 

I don't believe so as you are adding them to your personal account's Album and into its Cloud Storage, not sharing them from your work account.

To give you piece of mind. Do a test with any image that you don't require. Add it to your personal account's Shared Album from your Work account and once there, delete it from your Work account (including permanently from the bin) and see if it remains in your personal account.