Adobe Community: upgrading LR3 cat to LR4 catalog

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1. janelle_f,

Jun 29, 2012 10:25 AM in reply to ShacharOren

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ShacharOren-

Here are some helpful links-

importing:

http://tv.adobe.com/watch/getting-started-with-adobe-photoshop-lightro om-4/lightroom-4-importing-and-organizing-your-images/

updating presets/migrating:

http://blogs.adobe.com/lightroomjournal/2012/04/updating-develop-prese ts-for-lightroom-4-2.html

regards-

janelle

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2. Brett N,

Jun 29, 2012 10:27 AM in reply to ShacharOren

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I'm not sure what your getting at here. Did you loose anything in your catalog going from LR3 to LR4? You shouldn't have. I'm not sure what other methods have been suggested by others, but it sounds like it could be convoluted with no gain.

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3. web-weaver,

Jun 29, 2012 10:37 AM in reply to ShacharOren

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You can have Lr3 and Lr4 on your system, and both will work - but not simultaneously, i.e. you can open either Lr3 or Lr4. not both at the same time.

Lr4 upgrades the Lr3 catalog to the effect that Lr3 cannot open or work with the upgraded new Lr4 catalog.

But if the upgraded Lr4 catalog has been saved under a new name and the old Lr3 catalog is still unchanged, you can use it to work in Lr3.

But it is best to use Lr3 only to check things out, not to do actual work. If you did your Lr3 catalog and your Lr4 catalog would diverge. This is not useful.

And it would be cumbersome to bring work that you did in Lr3 into Lr4 after the Lr4 catalog has been created.

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4. Rob Cole,

Jun 29, 2012 6:27 PM in reply to ShacharOren

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ShacharOren wrote:

i have tried just openning the LR3 catalog from LR4 and it works and on first glance it looks ok,

but i understood that this is not the best way for keeping all info.

You understood wrong - this *is* the best way for keeping all info.

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5. LRuser24,

Jun 30, 2012 12:04 PM in reply to ShacharOren

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Just make sure that you are using the LR 4.1 update when converting your old LR3 catalog! LR 4.0 has a bug: It will not correctly convert your tone curves.

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6. ShacharOren,

Jul 1, 2012 12:36 AM in reply to LRuser24

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and again, the question rise,

i will make sure to have the 4.1, no problem,

but when you say 'converting' , what do you mean?

i have tried 2 options so far (don't know if there are any other option)

one, is to just open LR4 and click open catalog to my old catalog (250K images) from LR3.

it opens the catalog with no issue.

the second option i have tried is to create a new catalog within LR4, and than use the option of 'import from another catalog'. (this prossces took forever)

now i have these 2 options and i want to know which one to use?

i don't want to use one of them for a while and just than find out that i have some things missing,

such as flags, and special rating etc.

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7. Gerry A White,

Jul 1, 2012 1:56 AM in reply to ShacharOren

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Rob Cole has told you the best version to use, which you have!

He actually does know quite a fair bit on the workings of Lightroom by the way!

Don't 'overegg' the pudding as my gran used to say.

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8. Rob Cole,

Jul 1, 2012 2:11 AM in reply to Gerry A White

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Hi Gerry,

I'm wondering now whether what we think happened is really what happened.

I mean, if I remember correctly, when you first open an Lr3 catalog with Lr4, it explains that it's gonna convert the format and make a new copy... - doesn't it?

ShacharOren - you're Lr3 catalog should still be intact and unaltered, and it should have been converted to Lr4 format - in a new folder. *all* the stuff from Lr3 should be there in the new converted catalog.

Does this not sound right?

Rob

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9. Gerry A White,

Jul 1, 2012 5:32 AM in reply to Rob Cole

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Hi Rob

Yes that's how it worked for me too. The catalog converted changing the preview folders title to match the new calatog, leaving the old catalog where it was and adding - 2 to the new catalog and previews data names.

The previous catalog is still how it was prior to the change!

Gerry

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10. ShacharOren,

Jul 1, 2012 10:22 AM in reply to Gerry A White

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hi rob and gerry,

first, thx much for the info and help.

please understand my situation as i have alot of images and info in my LR3 cat and i am alittle bit concerned that somthing might happan.

add this to what i have heard about "just" openning a LR3 cat in LR4 and there you have it, PANIC.

so i appologize for overegging the pudding, but i was a bit concern.

i thank you for your help.

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11. Rob Cole,

Jul 1, 2012 12:20 PM in reply to ShacharOren

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ShacharOren wrote:

...add this to what i have heard about "just" openning a LR3 cat in LR4 and there you have it, PANIC.

The only issue of data loss, that I know of, when converting an older catalog to a newer format, was due to a bug in Lr4.0 (loss of point curve). But you used Lr4.1, so there should be *no* data loss.

All good?

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