johngpt
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- Jan 29, 2013
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My beloved old macbook pro running OS 10.7.5 Lion has mother, er, motherboard issues.
I'm salvaging from it in target disc mode, plus I'm fairly insane with how OCD I am about backing up both my Lr catalog and my actual photo files, so absolutely no pixels or data have been lost.
I'm in the process of setting up a brand spankin' new MBP running OS 10.11.6 El Capitan.
Also I am in the process of recreating the same folders/directories with my photos that had been on my now defunct MBP so that whichever version of Lr I choose, the catalog will point to the photo files.
I'm anticipating the delivery tomorrow of Lr 6.
And now we're finally getting to the first of my questions.
Should I install Lr 5 from my old install disc and point it at the Lightroom 5 Catalog.lrcat file I can copy to the new MBP Pictures folder? I was thinking that, and also copying to that folder the Lightroom 5 Catalog Previews.lrdata file.
And while at it I was thinking I'd copy to the new Pictures Lightroom folder, the Lightroom Settings folder.
I've never tried migrating Lr to a different computer. The now defunct MBP started with Lr 4 and then I upgraded to Lr 5.7. I only have one catalog which organizes photo files across the computer's HD and several external hard drives.
But I should be getting Lr 6 tomorrow, and I'm wondering if I should just install that, and then point it toward the Catalog.lrcat and Catalog Previews.lrdata files?
Will Lr 6 make sense of the Lr 5 .lrcat and .lrdata files?
I do have some presets that I've created in the export menu. I've copied that with the whole Lightroom Settings folder, and I can place either that whole folder in ~/Pictures/Lightroom, or just my user presets there later after opening Lr 6.
And if this is the way to proceed, could someone tell me how I point the newly installed Lr version toward the catalog?
Of course I've been googling, and at one site I had read that after getting all the photo file hierarchies correct, to install the new version of Lr.
Then put all the .lrcat and .lrdata and all the other preference files in place.
Then right click on the .lrcat file to open Lr.
Does this sound correct?
I've not found any other info that actually speaks to the specifics of how this is done.
I have an old Martin Evening Lr 4 manual that speaks about upgrading from v3 to v4. In it he says to launch Lr 4, and then use File > Import from Catalog.
If that same process holds true for a fresh Lr 6 install, then after I get all the files in place, I would just launch Lr 6 and use File > Import from Catalog.
Does this method sound correct?
I'm hoping that someone more knowledgeable than I could give some advice.
Thanks,
John
I'm salvaging from it in target disc mode, plus I'm fairly insane with how OCD I am about backing up both my Lr catalog and my actual photo files, so absolutely no pixels or data have been lost.
I'm in the process of setting up a brand spankin' new MBP running OS 10.11.6 El Capitan.
Also I am in the process of recreating the same folders/directories with my photos that had been on my now defunct MBP so that whichever version of Lr I choose, the catalog will point to the photo files.
I'm anticipating the delivery tomorrow of Lr 6.
And now we're finally getting to the first of my questions.
Should I install Lr 5 from my old install disc and point it at the Lightroom 5 Catalog.lrcat file I can copy to the new MBP Pictures folder? I was thinking that, and also copying to that folder the Lightroom 5 Catalog Previews.lrdata file.
And while at it I was thinking I'd copy to the new Pictures Lightroom folder, the Lightroom Settings folder.
I've never tried migrating Lr to a different computer. The now defunct MBP started with Lr 4 and then I upgraded to Lr 5.7. I only have one catalog which organizes photo files across the computer's HD and several external hard drives.
But I should be getting Lr 6 tomorrow, and I'm wondering if I should just install that, and then point it toward the Catalog.lrcat and Catalog Previews.lrdata files?
Will Lr 6 make sense of the Lr 5 .lrcat and .lrdata files?
I do have some presets that I've created in the export menu. I've copied that with the whole Lightroom Settings folder, and I can place either that whole folder in ~/Pictures/Lightroom, or just my user presets there later after opening Lr 6.
And if this is the way to proceed, could someone tell me how I point the newly installed Lr version toward the catalog?
Of course I've been googling, and at one site I had read that after getting all the photo file hierarchies correct, to install the new version of Lr.
Then put all the .lrcat and .lrdata and all the other preference files in place.
Then right click on the .lrcat file to open Lr.
Does this sound correct?
I've not found any other info that actually speaks to the specifics of how this is done.
I have an old Martin Evening Lr 4 manual that speaks about upgrading from v3 to v4. In it he says to launch Lr 4, and then use File > Import from Catalog.
If that same process holds true for a fresh Lr 6 install, then after I get all the files in place, I would just launch Lr 6 and use File > Import from Catalog.
Does this method sound correct?
I'm hoping that someone more knowledgeable than I could give some advice.
Thanks,
John