Mistakenly added 2018 pictures to old Lightroom and not Lightroom CC Classic

[jeffc88]

I added Lightroom Classic subscription to my computer in early 2018. During the year I mistakenly added all my new 2018 photos (and edited them) on my old Lightroom! Now I see my error and want everything on the new Lightroom Classic but I do not want to lose my long hours of editing.

Can I uninstall the new Lightroom Classic and then reinstall it again from the old and save all my hard work? I checked and everything in the new version is in the old.

Will my subscription allow me to uninstall the new then and reinstall from the old as it did before?

My photos are backed up on a hard drive but I do not want to lose the edit links.

Please help.

How do I do this? Please give step by step.

[Bani Verma]

Moving this query to Lightroom CC — The cloud-based photo service​ community.

[JohanElzenga]

https://forums.adobe.com/people/Bani+Verma  wrote

Moving this query to   community.

No idea why you did that. This is clearly about Lightroom Classic, not about Lightroom CC...

[Akash Sharma]

Hi jeffc88,

Sorry that you're finding it difficult to combine your older catalog to the newer catalog in Lightroom Classic CC.

You can import all the work from older catalog and can combine it.

I'd suggest that you import the set of images from the older Lightroom catalog into Lightroom Classic CC newer catalog.

Please refer this linked article Photoshop Lightroom catalog FAQ and let us know if need any additional help around this.

Thanks,

Akash

[Laura Shoe · Accepted solution]

Since everything in the new version is in the old (hopefully both photos AND editing), then  all you have to do is, in Lightroom Classic, go to File>Open, and navigate to and select your catalog from the old version. LR will prompt you to upgrade it.