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Tue, Feb 27, 2018 4:10 PM
Lightroom CC to Classic
Unfortunately my Classic catalog is destroyed unrecoverable. I have all my pics stored in Lightroom CC in the cloud and also on my computer. I want to import the entire CC catalog into a new classic catalog without!! producing any additional files on my harddrive because the files are already there and as I told saved to the cloud. To be honest I ́d like to work more with CC but the filter criterias are nothing to write home about. Not even I can filter for file types nor can I look for missing files in my CC catalog and I know there are some because sync didnt work very well in the past. My simple goal is to have a perfectly clean CC and Classic catalog and I am happy if CC will become that grown up to word as only system. Finally Adobe I started a new empty Classic catalog because I first tried to manage the "back migration" allone. As I stopped the unwanted imports after 47 pics and really my catalog only has these many pics, Lightroom used 16gb of my CPU - come on Adobe you are not allone on my Mac!
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Johan_Elzenga
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Lightroom Classic does not store images inside the catalog. The catalog only contains links to the images. That means that even if you lost your catalog, you probably haven't lost the images. They should still be on your hard disk. So if you want to create a new catalog (because the old one is not recoverable), you have two choices:
1: Import the images that are still on your hard disk. Use 'ADD' at the top of the import dialog, so the images are only added to the catalog, not copied or moved to another location. Don't sync this catalog to the cloud, because that will indeed make Lightroom download everything again.
2: Get the images from the cloud. Create a new catalog and do sync it. Lightroom Classic will download all the images from the cloud again, but it means you can delete the existing images so you still don't have two copies of each image.
Johan W. Elzenga,
http://www.johanfoto.com
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