Migration from windows to Mac

Hi all

I'm new to this forum, but not in LR itself. I used lightroom for several months (not an official version ) on my old windows computer laptop and I have a lot of images on this laptop HARD drive. Last week I bit the bullet and bought myself a 27 iMac nine inches, which I immediately fell in love and I wanted to have the consciousness alone and registered for the software Lightroom official and licenses.

Now since this is my first iMac and I had no experience with Apple in the past, I don't know how I can import the picture from my laptop on the iMac. I want to keep all the changes that I made to these images of course.

When I installed the LR software on the iMac, it is automatically created a new catalog of images. Can I just copy - paste the files from the iMac laptop?

I'm sorry if this is a stupid question, but I don't want to lose months of editing by bad.

And I also regret to use an illegal version of LR in the past months. At least it made me understand it as a great piece of software it is and he deserves to be paid for (and that clears my conscience at a time )

You will need to move the catalog and preference files, but also your images. Strive to maintain a standard hierarchy that will make it easier to add a link to the pictures with the changes in the database. For example if all your images are in a subfolder images, move the entire folder and subfolders of images on Mac. You should then be able to simply add a link to the root folder and all the rest will follow automatically.

See his (AKA Lightroom Queen) Victoria link

http://www.lightroomqueen.com/how-move-Lightroom-to-new-computer/

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