Bob_B
Active Member
- Joined
- Aug 7, 2012
- Messages
- 175
- Location
- Catonsville, Maryland
- Lightroom Experience
- Advanced
- Lightroom Version
- Classic
- Lightroom Version Number
- LR CC 9.4
- Operating System
- Windows 10
So, I built a new Win10 computer over the weekend, and I have installed, but not started Lightroom CC. I read the 'how to' by Victoria (How do I move Lightroom to a new computer? | The Lightroom Queen), and have copied the old LR 5.7 files so that I may paste them into the appropriate folders in the new LR CC installation. My first and immediate problem is that in a separate url, Victoria indicates that LR CC's catalog is stored in C: Users \ [your username] \ My Pictures \ Lightroom \ Lightroom Catalog.lrcat, but I don't have a "My Pictures" folder and the "Pictures" folder doesn't have anything in it related to LR. Not surprisingly, since I haven't run LRCC there is no catalog anywhere.
Do I need to run LR CC first, and let it establish some files including a catalog, AND THEN close LRCC and copy my older catalog over the one it just created? I read in yet another one of Victoria's how tos that double clicking on my old catalog file will also link it to LRCC. That may be slightly wrong, as I have to go back and reread that part.
Second question (unrelated to the first): I copied my LR5.7 preferences and want to know whether I should simply copy them to the new LRCC preference folder, or should they be renamed to match the LRCC preference file name?
I hope someone can get back to me asap, and thanks in advance.
Bob
Do I need to run LR CC first, and let it establish some files including a catalog, AND THEN close LRCC and copy my older catalog over the one it just created? I read in yet another one of Victoria's how tos that double clicking on my old catalog file will also link it to LRCC. That may be slightly wrong, as I have to go back and reread that part.
Second question (unrelated to the first): I copied my LR5.7 preferences and want to know whether I should simply copy them to the new LRCC preference folder, or should they be renamed to match the LRCC preference file name?
I hope someone can get back to me asap, and thanks in advance.
Bob