Re-installing Lightroom on the new laptop, keywords from images! (I think!)

Hello

I use Lightroom 5.2

I spent several days it is has updated all of my keywords in LR using my old laptop. I have about 8 000 image files, mainly RAW CR2 files, all recorded on a disc toshiba external hard.

Now I have a new laptop and reinstalled LR on this new laptop computer. I'm starting to import all image files in LR since the external hard drive, but I noticed that there are no keywords in the version of LR installed on the new laptop.

I perhaps foolishly assumed that when I keyworded all files first time round the metadata would be saved in the CR2 file itself, such that it would be accessible by other applications, or, in this case, by a version of LR installed on a different laptop. This doesn't seem to be the case.

I'm doing something wrong? Are there key words, but I can't see them somehow?

I really don't go back through 8000 files and re - keyword all, it took me days!

If all this fails, can I go back to the version of LR on my old laptop (which I still have) and somehow join keywords in files on a more permanent basis so that they are recognized by my new laptop, or are what I'd need to set it as default when first, I realized the keywording exercise?

Thank you very much
Tom

But it's a brand new version/installation of LR. Then it will be a brand-new photo as much as the new version of LR is concerned, used? How they see the before image file?

Your keywords are in Lightroom, more precisely, they are in the catalog file. You must transfer the catalog file, as described in the link I provided. Import photos is not the way to do it.

I tried to work through the tutorial you linked to, but I'm stuck at step 4: transfer. For example, he says to transfer the catalog, etc.. But I'm not transfer anything I am? I just have to say the new version of LR where to look to find image files...

You MUST copy the file from the catalog to the new computer. Then, although it is a new installation of Lightroom, you MUST use your existing keywords with catalog. That's the key, you MUST use the existing catalog file.

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