LR/Mogrify 2

I don't use it, but I doubt Mogrify had any custom metadata... It's a sort of export plug-in or something.

I was also unable to import my catalog from beta into Version 3. Windows 7 operating system. I was able to export my individual folders as catalogs and them import those. It worked and having only 6 folders made it tolerable.

I've had the same problem.

My methodology was that I upgraded the Lightroom 2 catalogue, then tried to import the Lightroom 3 beta catalogue. Importing the catalogue, and importing an exported catalogue of all the Lightroom 3 beta pics both failed.

Duplicates definitely seem to be a factor, as it often failed during the 'searching for duplicates' phase. But when I did a smaller export of pictures not duplicated in the main catalogue, the import of that failed also. I was trying further variations but ran out of time and had to go to work.

I'm pretty sure the export will also fail if any of the pictures have moved and cannot be found.

Snow Leopard 10.6.3 (or whatever latest build is).

Running Lightroom 3 in 64-bit mode.

Zenfolio and Facebook export plugins both installed.

Hope we can sort this out, as at the moment it looks as though i'll have to go folder by folder through this process.

same here, there is another thread on this

Same problem, can't import my beta 3 catalog. Any workarounds?

Can't speak for everybody, but in my case: Yes, yes, not sure, no.

camerahans wrote:

 

well... these workarounds may be nice  to get the result in the end but in my opinion this should not be necessery.

Obviously, but if this is a bug we need to know how to replicate it reliably so we can tell Adobe so they can reproduce it in house and fix it.

I confirm the bug on this system: Mac Pro OS X 10.6.3

1 - Lr3 (release) reads Lr3 beta catalog fine.

2 - Lr3 (release) converts Lr2.7 catalog fine.

but

3 - Lr3 fails at importing one catalog over the other (no matter which catalog is open. It fails right after checking for duplicates.

No plugins existed in the Lr2 catalog. No plugins in the Lr3 catalog except the built-in ones such as Flickr.

I am having the same problem: both the (upgraded) 2.0 catalog and the 3-beta catalog open fine, but neither can be imported into the other (tried it both ways). Same error message: "Lightroom could not import this catalog because of an unknown error." I also tried exporting either to a new catalog and then importing that (didn't work either way), as well as creating a new and blank catalog and then importing into that (the first import will work, the second will fail, regardless of the order).

Windows 7 64-bit, Mogrify-plugin, lots of duplicates (over a hundred, of which I want the more recent 3-beta version).

As bugs go, this is a bit poor for the final release. Rather takes the joy out of the big day - hope we get a fix sooner rather than later.

My update of a 2.6 catalog failed at the end, and LR3 crashed (Win 7) but when I reopened LR3 and repeated the catalog was updated successfully.

Thanks Julie (and Stepan), but this workaround relies on the idea that duplicates are something exceptional — but that's not true for me and, I suspect, many others. With two exceptions ALL my folders and the vast majority of images in my beta catalog are duplicated in the larger version 2 catalog, but in those same folders only varying numbers of pictures have 3-beta versions: it's very intertwined. Short of spending hours on a manual folder-by-folder, image-by-image comparison, I really need to merge these automatically, telling it to replace v2 duplicates with their 3-beta version. Is that dot-release coming soon?

I just want to confrim that I have the same problem

I have two catalogs:

1. Lightroom 2 Catalog (15000+ photos)

2. Lightroom 3 Beta Catalog (1000 photos and videos)

I opened number 1 (it did the upgrade successfully) and tried to import number 2 (by clicking on File > Import from Catalog) and I got the error that you all have here. I tried it vice versa and the same problem.

Removing duplicate folders solved the problem for me, too.

For those who have folders internixed between LR2 & LR3 Beta 2 catalogs, a possible workaround might be to load the L3b2 catalog, select all the photos in a folder, do a Save Metadata to File, then load the updated LR2 catalog and do a Synchronize Folder... on the same folder. Someone who knows more about metadata than I do might be able to comment on the pros and cons of this procedure.

dbm705 wrote:

 

Exactly my problem

 

Upgrade LR2 and LR3beta worked just fine; giving me two catalogues.

But neither can be imported into the other!

 

I've tried even exporting one photo as catalog from one of the catalogues, and tried to import that: no luck, Lightroom cannot import due to an unknown error..

It's not unknown anymore.  Read the thread.

Yes tried in both directions

But I have a workaround (i think someone else mentioned it)

That's to export as catalogue with negatives to somewhere outside the usual folder hierarchy form the LR3beta cat.

Then I can import from cagtalogue from the LR2; the downside is that the locations of the folders are all new.

Then it's a question of manually moving out the folders that I've exported in my OS, and then using lightroom move the exported folders back into the correct place in the hierarchy.

A bit of effort, but that's the price for day 1 adoption I guess; especially since importing, not being supported by the beta, wasn't as beta tested!

cheers

d