New installation

[Pete_K1382]

Installed LR on new computer. It's not reading my saved catalog file which is indexing over 50k photos. Any thoughts?

[kglad]

in the future, to find the best place to post your message, use the list here, https://community.adobe.com/

p.s. i don't think the adobe website, and forums in particular, are easy to navigate, so don't spend a lot of time searching that forum list. do your best and we'll move the post (like this one has already been moved) if it helps you get responses.

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[Pete_K1382]

Thanks for your help.

[kglad]

no problem. your post is now in the lr forum, https://community.adobe.com/t5/lightroom-ecosystem-cloud-based-discussions/new-installation/m-p/1424...

[selondon]

Which version/releaae of Lightroom are you using?

This can be found under Help/System info?

Also what hardware are you using?

[Pete_K1382]

Selondon, thanks for your reply. I'm on LR Ver 7.0

Hardware is a new LG Gram laptop with 32GB, 1TB SSB, i7 processor, windows 11, Western Digital 5TB external SSB (This is where my LR Cat files are located.)

[Rob_Cullen · Accepted solution]

LR v7 does not have a local catalog!- It is in the Cloud ecosystem, so you cannot "Save" a LR7 Catalog file.

If, in the past, you did use a 'perpetual' version of "Lightroom" that did have a local catalog and local files, then it is Lightroom-Classic v13 that you want, not Lightroom v7.

COMPARE LIGHTROOM & LIGHTROOM-CLASSIC FEATURES

[Pete_K1382]

Rob,

Thanks so much. In the past, I was using both the cloud based v7.0 and the classic, but I guess I didn't u derstand this key difference. When I setup my new computer, I didn't install Classic yet. I'll do that, and should be able to get re-connected with my catalog.