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• How to restore a backup catalog of my images on a new iMac

  I have one all my images of almost 700 GB Lightroom Catalog

  I did a backup of the settings catalogue (without images) one day before the death of my old iMac

  I also have a backup of the images via Time Machine (made daily)

  I bought a new iMac and copied images inside of Time Machine - keep the same folder structure. I also have the settings saved on the new machine Catalog backup.

  My question is: in the newly installed copy of LR on my new machine, how can I restore and apply this saved catalog related images which are now on my new iMac?  Can I do a new import of images in LR and then somehow apply the catalog, or I load the catalog and then point it to the pictures, that respect?  I tried the latter and all I get is a screen full of blank thumbnails with question marks on them.

  Thanks in advance.

  Hi KurtHeck

  Greetings!

  You must open the backup catalog on your new computer.

  • Choose file > open catalog.
  • Navigate to the location of your backup catalog file.
  • Select the backup the .lrcat file and click Open.

  If after the opening of the catalogue you found images as missing.

  Reconnect your Images in the catalog suite Adobe Lightroom - find folders and files moved or missing

  Let us know if this helps

  Concerning

  Assani

• I have been hacked and you will have to reset my PC to factory setting and reinstall everything.  To get my Adobe Lightroom rear 6 where she was re - download the software and then Exchange with my current backup catalog catalog.  Will this work?  I have

  I have been hacked and you will have to reset my PC to factory setting and reinstall everything.  To get my Adobe Lightroom rear 6 where she was re - download the software and then Exchange with my current backup catalog catalog.  Will this work?  -What I else I need / have to do?

  Yep, it shud work.

  https://helpx.Adobe.com/Lightroom/help/import-photos-various-sources.html

  Restore a backup catalog

  • Choose file > open catalog.

  • Navigate to the location of your backup catalog file.

  • Select the backup the .lrcat file and click Open.

  • (Optional) Copy the catalog to the location of the original catalogue to replace.

• Lightroom: Sync has been turned off. This seems to be a backup catalog...

  Lightroom crashed on me and now I get the following message is displayed:

  Sync has been turned off. This seems to be a backup catalog that can be updated with Lightroom Mobile.

  To ensure that your catalog sync, go to: Edit > Preferences > Mobile with Lightroom and click the button "delete all data" to start over.

  I'm in my main catalog, not a backup.

  No one knows how to stop Lightroom to my main catalog as a backup? I don't really want to delete all data and spend the next week re - synchronize their brand-new.

  I use the latest version of Lightroom CC on a pc Windows 10.

  Thanks for your replies. Looks like I fixed it now.

  I was in the main catalog, not a return to the top.

  The issue seems to be with 1 private collection. No synchronization this collection, Lightroom is connected to the Mobile with Lightroom. I allowed him to delete the files in the cloud, then re - synchronize the collection. It seems to work fine now.

• Edition of Lightroom Mobile Sync - 'Sync has been turned off. This seems to be a backup catalog... »

  Hi, I just tried to synchronize. I am logged on LR5.4 and on mobile. I ran the sync once, that seemed to work. The next time that I'm connected, I got a dialog box saying "Sync has been turned off. This seems to be a backup catalog that can be updated with Lightroom mobile. "To do this, your catalog sync go in Edition > Preferences > mobile Lightroom and click on the button Delete all data.

  It is not a backup catalog, is my main and one alone, but I deleted all the data anyway. No difference. When I start the synchronization immediately made up the dialog.

  Any ideas?

  See you soon,.

  Scott

  Scott, you mention in your post "the next time I logged in." do you have explicitly signed out of sync Lightroom Mobile on the desktop after you sync the first time?  Or you might need to reconnect on the launch.  If it's the latter, this should not occur and could be another indication that the catalog you have signed forward is not the same (that is a backup or a copy that is not state same you were when you last signed in).  This catalog is shared between both machines somehow?

  If you see this and you are certainly not in a backup catalog, you should be able to perform the following operations with Lightroom close.  This will work better if you did remove all the data, even if it is not mandatory.  If you do not, after relaunch of Lr, we will rebuild your sync status which can take some time depending on how much you have synced.  I wouldn't do this for any other situation.

  On OSX: In the Finder go /Users/Data / Sync.lrdata Library/Caches/Adobe/Lightroom/Sync and delete it.

  Windows: In explore go to C:\Users\\AppData\Local\Adobe\Lightroom\Caches\Sync.lrdata and delete it

• Separated necessary backup photos when you use the backup catalog

  Well, the title says it all. When I backup the catalog, I assumed that the backup would be mede to al the tags added to the photo. When I check the catalog files, I see a whole bunch of jpg files. My real photo collection contains-jpg, raw an avi files.

  I used to make a copy of all my photofiles, but it seems now double

  Question: Backup-function of photoshop elements 11 is actually make a backup of tags and photo?

  Greetz, forward a response.

  File-> backup catalog creates backups of the catalog file and all the photos in the catalog.

• My computer is running a backup catalog or the catalog 'master '?

  Recently I lost a good amount of work I had done in LR after the deletion of a bunch of my backup catalogs. (RAW images are safe, but all settings were gone).  This leads me to believe that the catalog I was running was stored in my folder of backups and he had a name that made me think it was several months, while he was in fact the most recent catalog.

  Then... How can I find out where my catalog 'master '?  It doesn't seem to be residing in the User/pictures/Lightroom folder (this file has a 'last opening' date which is since the beginning of August) and when I do a Finder search for the name of the catalog that is running, this file is located in my internal 320/Lightroom backups .  This leads me to believe that I'm turning one of my backups as the "master" file

  I want the catalog I work every day to be located in the User/pictures/Lightroom folder and the backup until found in internal 320/Lightroom backups.

  Is this a likely risk or is there something in the outline of production of LR that I don't understand?

  
  Thank you

  Bruce

  Bruce_B wrote:

  Is this a likely risk or is there something in the outline of production of LR that I don't understand?

  Bruce,

  It is reasonable, but it is not what you were doing, of course. Backups are just direct copies of the original catalogue. At some point you can double-clicking on one of them, causing it to be opened in Lightroom. Once this happened, this catalogue has become your "main catalogue", i.e. the default catalog LR opens at startup.

  Are your deleted catalogs still in the trash? Did you remove all, or is it a recent that you can copy where you want your catalogue to be? If there is, copy it, and then double-click its icon.

  HAL

• Backup catalog is much too large - is it possible to copy a smaller instead?

  I just installed PES 13 on a Mac under OS x 10.10. After creating a catalog, I decided to make a backup, but I couldn't believe what happened. It literally took all night for backup to do, and that she consumed 1.5 TB of space on an external drive. It contains a complete copy of each image, which most is larger than 20 MB RAW images. I don't need these images saved - I have already two backups of all original images on different drives - and I can't save another 1.5 TB of disk space for this.

  The catalog that organizing PSE actually use - the user > library > file Adobe etc. - is only 900 MB. Of course, it contains copies of all the images. Can I copy this catalogue to a backup disk and send it to users > etc if I need to replace? This will keep information on the sides, version sets and batteries, which is really what I want?

  dotpse wrote:

  The PSE Organizer catalog actually - use to the users of > library > file Adobe etc. - is only 900 MB. Of course, it contains copies of all the images. Can I copy this catalogue to a backup disk and send it to users > etc if I need to replace? This will keep information on the sides, version sets and batteries, which is really what I want?

  Yes, you can copy your catalog folder where you want as a backup. That will keep everything in your organization. Note the catalog is all the catalog.pse13db database folder and its subfolders and associated files. This folder should not be in the default path, it can be moved elsewhere.

  The reason of built-in backup/restore of the Organizer is to provide backup image files and catalogues so that you can restore everything on a new drive or computer, on another operating system or OS version...

  If you do not have such a backup, you will be able to restore your catalog and the same disk image files, they are now, no problem. But what happens if your current drive breaks down? You will restore image files and catalogues in another computer... and all the images will be declared missing, given that the new drive not to be recognized. You can use the reconnection of the Organizer function... good luck!

• The backup catalog

  Can someone clarify for me if when to perform a catalog backup only items save the real files, which makes it useless to save the images in a separate backup process.  Or the backup items simply Details of the catalog?

  lawrencedevaney wrote:

  Can someone clarify for me if when to perform a catalog backup only items save the real files, which makes it useless to save the images in a separate backup process.  Or the backup items simply Details of the catalog?

  Organizer catalog backup saves not only the catalog (special folder) files, but all of the images and their folder structure. Its purpose is to be able to restore everything from the backup folder to the location of origin or on another drive or computer. The links are restored so that you do not receive the "disconnected" or "missing" files in the catalog. If necessary, the restore process invites you to convert the catalog if you restore to a more recent version of elements.

• OK to have more than one backup catalog on different hard drives?

  Hello

  I always backup my catalog on a hard drive in my computer Tower, which was the first hard drive to hold Lightroom 2008-2012.

  In 2013, I started to store photos from 2013-2015 on a second hard drive, but have always supported catalogue until the first hard drive.

  I would like to have a few copies of the catalog for obvious reasons, so it is OK to switch alternately between 2 different on the same computer tower HDs when I back up or not?

  I think remember me hearing we should keep the catalog on original destination as first installation disk and do not want to spoil anything.

  Wouldn't be better to keep the original data disc 2008-2012 catalog and sometimes save on an external LaCie instead?

  Also the catalog saves, but not previews - previews yet save in LR 4.4, or who was in older versions?

  I don't really like the previews but noticed that they were not to save.

  Super thanks, Teri

  As far as I KNOW, the previews were never saved - LR has always been able to re - create if necessary...

  Of course, you can have your backups of catalog anywhere you want, but you should really have them on a different physical disk in your catalog. The easiest way would be to always back up to a place and have your standard system backup program include this place when he does his periodic backups

  HAL

• How do the backup catalog on different hard drive for archiving?

  Hello!

  I regularly update / save my catalog when you exit Lightroom but I also back up to another hard disk.

  I mean drag-and - drop isn't the way to go.  Is there another way to backup on hard disk other than Lightroom Catalog is stop smoking, except by using a backup program?

  Thank you, Teri

  When you leave LR, before clicking on the backup button, click on the button to choose and point the path to your favorite place.

• List of subdirectories look very different after going to the backup catalog

  My catalog has been corrupted and I decided to go to my last backup. But when I look at the subdirectories where the pictures are stored, there is a name for the directory. Join also, like on the screenshot, all images are not displayed in the grid until it is clicked on.

  I just want to add here that my catalog was not bad. I've deleted and reinstalled Lightroom 2015 CC and everything's fine, almost, but I'll start a new thread about this.

• Backup catalog do not

  I just found out that my catalog is not successfully back up since I signed up for the CCRB. There is just a little about 11 MB file, while in August, using LR5 was 60 Mb.

  He seems to be back up when I close and I was not aware of this problem until today when I decided to look at my backup files. Can anyone help, please.

  .

  LR CC to zip the backup, making it much smaller.

  If you need to use a backup, you will first need to unpack it.

• Is it normal for a backup catalog LR CC 2015 to substantially reduce the size of the file?

  I just noticed that my backup LR CC 2015 declined substantially in size - 2.68 GB on April 22, before the LR 5.7 upgrade, now up to 432 MB may 6. Is this normal? The main catalog on my drive C (37.3 GB) seems to find any image file that I ask instantly, go back up to 2007. So I think that my master catalog is very well after the automatic upgrade. Is the reduction of the size of the backup because it can see my pre - LR CC 2015 backup (made under LR 5.7) in the same backup location and only backup the news since April 22? A kind of differential backup, perhaps? I normally delete old backups and just keep the last two – I'm reluctant to remove a 2.68 GB and rely on a much smaller. Any thoughts on this please?

  LR 6 and CC 2015 use ZIP compression. If you look at the Catalog backup file is the extension ".zip". My catalog LR 5 file went from 1.0 GB to 98 MB, or 1/10th the size!

• Backup catalog

  When I went to save a catalog, it seems as the backup of the photos in the catalog.

  Is it possible to save the entire catalog without making additional copies of my photos?

  Photo10Guy wrote:

  The "Catalogs" folder contains folders with the names of my different catalogs.

  Is this sounds as if I had the right backup folder located?

  These folders are hidden by default in Windows, so you must set the properties of folders in Explorer to show hidden folders.

  If you save records 'catalogue', you save all of your catalogs. You can also save the subfolders for each catalog individually.

  If you use a software backup or external synchronization (such as Windows Synctoy), don't forget to include these folders in your backups.