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    Catalogs about backup of catalogue

    hello, I am using Lighroom classic with mini mac (OS Ventura). All of my photo data is in external HD(A). I do copy them in another external HD (B). I have a question. when I tried to open the catalogue from external HD (B) without connection external HD(A), I could not open it. because of...
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    Deleting Lightroom Files

    In my Lightroom folder I have files from versions 10, 11 and 12. Can I delete those files safely? Thanks.
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    Moving Lightroom Catalog to a new machine

    Hi Everyone, Wishing you a very Happy New Year! I'm setting up LrC on my MacBook and until now I have been using LrC on my Mac Mini only. The catalog (using a single catalog for all my photos) resided on the Mac Mini itself, and all my Raw Files resides on an external SSD. So the Catalog on...
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    Issues moving LR from OS Monterey to OS Ventura - new computer

    I have an Adobe subscription. On my (old) iMac (OS Monterey 12.7.2) I have Lightroom 2006-2017 (no idea what that relates to in terms of version numbers). I have purchased a new Mac mini M2 (Silicon) running OS Ventura 13.6 All LR photos and primary catalog are on an external drive. Which...
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    Moved LRCAT to new computer

    I just got a new laptop where I store the catalog (LRCAT). All the photos are on an external HD. I followed the sequence of prepping things - tidying up my existing catalog, organizing, etc via my old laptop, I copied the catalog to my new computer, then loaded LR to the new computer, opened...
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    Migrate from Lightroom Classic (Mac) to LR (Win) failing with "catalog appears to be copied"... why?!

    I've tried many times, and Adobe help site is not helpful at all... so please, anyone who has encountered the same, help! My situation is as described below (the actual problem as #7 on the list): My old Mac Powerbook (from 2017) is breaking down, and I won't be getting a replacement. I have...
  7. R

    Importing catalog more than once

    I have just gotten a new iMac, updated to the newest version of LRC and upgraded to a new catalog version for v.13. I imported all my photos by going to File, recent and selected the latest catalog.However when I opened LRC again, I was back to zero photos in LRC. If I go to the File menu and...
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    Lightroom Catalog Not Found

    HELP!!!! I am less than knowledgeable when it comes to IT stuff and I recently had one of my external hard drives crash. It is at a facility racking up the $$$ I will spend to get back 6 years of my life's work (and no. I didn't have a back up, but now I do!!!), but I still had my last job...
  9. Bob_B

    Importing 9,000+ old jpgs and raw files?

    I have over 9,000 photos that I had stored on CDs and recently copied to my workstation. There's a lot of good work here and far more memories to preserve. I want to import all of them into LR in a sane and orderly manner. I could simply import the lot as a whole and then sort through them, and...
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    Cannot get newly purchased Lightroom on new computer to work with old catalog

    I have just purchased new subscription LR for new macmini and repeatedly encountered problem getting my old catalog to work. Migration seems only option presented in 6.5 and when I browse to copied over .lrcat file I put in Pictures folder I get this message "Something went wrong, The...
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    How to remove video from Cloud only in LR Classic?

    Hi, With any photo in your LR Classic catalog, which has arrived via the cloud, you can use the "Remove from All Synced Photographs" option to remove the photo from the cloud but still retained the file in your local catalog. How to do this with video files? I note that the video files that...
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    How to change location of a folder properly?

    Hello everyone, here is my situation: I work on a laptop and save and edit all my current pictures on its local SSD. I use robocopy to occasionaly back them up on an external hardrive (HDD A), and then robocopy again to mirror HDD A to two other external Harddrives (HDD B and HDD C). Every once...
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    How to switch my date-based folders system to Topic-driven folders?

    I followed someone's advice years ago and now face yearly folders with subfolders - and 80,000 images within them. How would I create folders with nine topics (like the ones Scott Kelby advocates for) and start cataloging this way? Thank you
  14. javapop

    NEW to Lightroom Classic (folder-based) BACKING UP

    I upgraded my catalog from LR 6.14, and have my main catalog on my MBP, but majority of my photos on an external drive. I have a new larger HD that I copied the files from both locations and want to sync them up. Whats the best way to do this if I stick to one catalog?
  15. VictoriaJZ

    Figuring out how to organize and find the original photos/folders

    Still newbie but hoping by just working with LRC to learn it = slow but sure. But now I am on my MacBook Pro running Monterey and had a bunch of photos on this computer which I imported into my Catalog on the MBP and worked with. I was going to delete them to make space on the MBP and then...
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    Catalogs Lightroom was unable to back up the catalog named "Lightroom Catalog-v12"

    I have backed up my Lightroom Classic catalog about once a week since early 2020 using the popup when exiting Lightroom Classic, but I remove old backups and only keep the most recent 4 to 5 backups in my backup folder to keep down on excess bloat. Ever since January 2023, I have been unable to...
  17. phrank

    Catalog on external SSD - Read/Write Speed Performance

    Hi, I’m thinking about to buy a SSD enclosure (40Gbps) with a 2-4TB M.2 PCIe Gen3 NVMe SSD (up to 3500MB/s) and connect it via Thunderbot / USB 4 to my MacBook Pro M1. My RAW images are stored all on a 18TB Harddisk. I guess it will be ca. the half speed of Apple's internal soldered SSD...
  18. VictoriaJZ

    Finding things in LRC. [finding and reconnecting the originals]

    I had a LRC catalog & original images on a partition of my iMac but [finally] decided that I really needed a separate computer so have a MacMini running Monterey. My LRC catalog of images [4000] is just fine on that machine but the original images are elsewhere - I now know where but before I...
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    Exporting collection as catalog and importing it back to main catalog when back home.

    I work on a big large catalog that contains all my archives. It stays on a SSD drive that I plug to iMac or Macbook depending where I am. The latest raw files are on the SSD, all archive RAWs are on separate hard drives that I do not carry with me. I worked few weeks back on a subject (and...
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    long, seemingly random file names after sync

    I'm returning to Lr and LrC after a long hiatus. I dabbled with Lr mobile (now just called Lr) years ago. I recently downloaded all of my images in the cloud to LrC. In doing so, LrC assigned long, seemingly random names to some of the downloaded photos (e.g...
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    Split Large Catalog into Several Smaller Catalogs

    I have a LR CC catalog with over 126K images, can I break it into multiple smaller catalogs to speed up loading & editing? If so, how would I go about doing it? Thank you.
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    Very slow backup on 3TB local drive

    Hi, I'm new to Lightroom Classic. Up to a couple of days ago catalog backups were almost instantaneous (the catalog size is only 140Mb). Now, however, I have tried to close LR and said yes to the backup now question. An error message appeared to say that it could not back up to the location...
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    Catalogs Catalog Not Opening in LR 2021

    Hey yall i recently reinstalled LR on my computer and when i went to reopen my last used catalog it did not open itself and took a lot of time. After referring some videos, I removed the .lrcat.lock file. Even after that nothing happened and the same problem persists. This is the message that...
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    Catalogs Lightroom was unable to back up the catalog named “Lightroom Catalog-v12”

    Title says most of it. Recent upgrade to LR Classic 12.0.1., on Macos Monterey 12.6.1 I back up the catalog on every exit, to a folder on my (Synology) NAS. This has worked reliably under previous versions of LrC. Now, I reliably get this error message towards the end of the backup process...
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    Issue Opening Lightroom Catalog on a New Computer

    Hi, Having purchased a new Mac for my photography work, I have followed all instructions on how to transfer everything across, backups etc etc. I actually use Dropbox, so all of my Folder and File Structures are identical, and all of my Photos are also organised on Dropbox. Now I perhaps...
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