I accidentally upgrade Lightroom 4 Catalog

Is there way to recover files from my backup of time machine, I lost everything in my catalog,collection, public services, settings and also presents. Is there way to recover them can some one please help.

Sounds like you might have ended up with corrupted preferences, which were automatically recreated, and opened the catalog in the default location.
Just search your computer for *.lrcat files to see if there are any other recent ones somewhere, which might still contain all your data. That's the most likely scenario.

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Accidentally replaced lightroom catalog master folder with edited pictures.

So I went on a trip this past weekend to Tahoe. I edited some of the pictures and created a Tahoe 2011 folder and the desktop and decided to put it in my pictures folder on my macbook. It asked if i want to replace and not thinking i said yes. Does anyone know how to get the pictures on the catalog back? I never had set up time machine and now i'm hating myself for it.
I tried hitting command + Z a couple times, but there was nothing to undo.

I was using lightroom 3.6. I did the update right after/before, can't remember. The update was so you can olympus cameras or something. Tahoe 2011 ircat folder is saved under default on my pictures folder on the mac hdd. i edited some pics and created a folder called tahoe 2011 on the desktop and than without thinking moved it to where the ircat folder is. It asked me to stop, continue, or replace. Without thinking, i hit replace. After i realized this, i hit command Z to retrieve it back. Nothing worked. I don't have the pictures on my memory card anymore either.

Can I open Lightroom without upgrading my catalog?

Unfortunately I'm not sure how to do a screen capture, so I'll try to type what I'm seeing.
When I click on the LIghtroom icon, I get a message box that says "Please upgrade the catalog file "Lightroom Catalog 3" for use with Lightroom 3. It continues "Lightroom will create a new catalog file in the destination indicated below. The previews will also be moved to the location and converted for use in Lightroom 3" Upgrade destination C:/Documents and Settings/...../Lightroom 3 Catalog-7.lrcat
There is a button to choose a different catalog, upgrade or exit.
When I open the button to change catalogs, it gives me one option, but when I click on it, I go back to the "Lightroom will create a new catalog"
My concern with upgrading is that I've a workflow for the catalog that's at C:/Documents and Settings/..../Lightroom 3 Catalog-5.lrcat Earlier today, I clicked on the dialog that resulted in a catalog at Lightroom Catalog-6.lrcat, but when I opened it, I'd lost all the listings for the Free Agent drive (usually G:/ where I do my daily uploads. I could still see the external hard drive (E:) where I save edited work, but it indicated that I would have to locate all of the folders I'd created on the E: drive. I saw only the default collections on the left hand side -- (smart collections, last month, etc.).
I finally was able to get back to Lightroom 3 Catalog-5, which had all the work, but I'm not sure how to recover all my collections and folders if I Lightroom creates a new catalog at a destination that has a different number. The problem is that now I can't seem to open Lightroom 3 at all -- when I click on Change, I don't see my catalog 5 in the default folder. I know I found it once before, and it became an option on the pulldown menu. But I don't want to have to keep finding it on the drive where I store it so I can keep my indexing and folder and catalog organization.
Lightroom 3 Catalog 5.lrcat works fine for me. My default for backing up is whenever I close the program, so I'm confident in it's integrity. How can I open Lightroom with the catalog that works for me --without getting messages that seem to force me to do an upgrade I don't want to do.
Thanks for your help!

I've been using Lightroom 3 for about a year. Right now I'm going
back to the folder with my backups and opening Lightroom 3 Catalog-5. I
think I've tried to reconstruct my left side panel with earlier
Lightroom 3 Catalog x versions. I don't have all the collections and
folders I had with my Lightroom 2 catalog. That catalog seemed to
have been corrupt when I moved to Lightroom 3. I don't recall how I did
it, but I guess I imported the photos and tried to start over with my
collections.
Jan

We need to upgrade your catalog for use with Lightroom 6.

Adobe CC member. Downloaded new LR CC. Shows as installed in Adobe creative cloud. Wouldn't run at first, but logged out and back in. Now upon launch I get a dialogue box named Lightroom Catalog Upgrade, asking to click to upgrade my catalog, but this freezes with an unending blue circle and the program never launches. I have tried deleting and reloading the entire program. I still have LR 5 on my machine. Is this normal? I thought CC replaced 5. Help appreciated.

To 3110,
I am facing a similar situation here. The description that you posted matches my requirement more or less.
So... which option did u choose? And any suggestions on how to go about it for people who are implementing a similar architecture?
Cheers,
V

Is there a problem upgrading Lightroom 4.4 catalogs to Lightroom 5?

I installed Lightroom 5 and it seemed to upgrade my catalog. Once I used it for a while, many folders didn't show any images. I tried synchronizing the folders, but that didn't solve the problem. Luckily, all of my work is fine in Lightroom 4.4. Is this a compatibility problem Adobe wasn't arare of when they launched?
I had to add one set of images I had instaled in LR5 to my LR4 catalog.

The problem seems to be random. After a complete re-boot, most of the folders showed up, but the screen shot shows how most folders looked before.
The folder has 10 files in it, but they don't show. Yesterday a project with many folders displayed about half of the images. Sometimes one or two would show when there were actually many files.

I am using Lightroom 4 but, notice that I am still seeing Lightroom catalog 3.2.2 running ?

I am using lightroom 4 upgraded from three, two , one etc. etc. but, I notice that the lightroom catalog 3.2.2 is still running and seems to slow things down a bit what did I do wrong ?

You did nothing wrong. When LR converted your LR 3 catalogue, it just tacked a .2 on the end of the filename. LR 4 won't work at all with unconverted LR 3 catalogues, so you're OK. The slowness must have some other cause. You might want to try the 4.2RC version to see if that speeds things up for you.
Hal

Lightroom catalog backup find missing file location- please help!

Hi,
Before I start, if anyone can answer this question I would be so grateful. I would cry!
Ok, so let me start.
Recently I cleared my whole entire mac and backed up everything on a hard drive. when I reinstalled lightroom on my clean mac, I also imported the catalog that I backed up. It all worked fine, and this post isn't about a lost catalog, or accidentally deleted photos.
So, what is hapenning is. When I imported my catalog I got an error message, for all the photos and folders. this:
So I found re-finding the folder, or finding the "missing file location" (which is so annoying because I wished Lightroom just backed up the pictures along with the catalog). But when I found the folder, only some photos showed up and some still displayed the exclamation mark.
Now I do have all the photos with the exclamation marks in folders on my backup hard drive, BUT they are all unedited raw versions. I honestly cannot go back and edit 2000 photos, especially after me having to clean all of the photos when my camera had over 30 spots of sensor dust on the photos. So those backup photos are what lightroom backed up, but I want to know how I can recover the photos in the lightroom catalog with the edits APPLIED.
May I PLEASEE get help on this. I am SO STUCK and do not want to mess up ANYTHING at all!
I would appreciate so much for ANY help! PLEASE!
Kind regards,
Josh

Please post on the Lightroom Forum.

Shared Lightroom catalog with Mac OS X Lion

I keep my Lightroom catalog on my Macbook Pro so I have access to my pictures while travelling. But for editing, I use a desktop PC running Lightroom on Windows 7 on the same catalog. My process for doing this is:
On the Mac, enable SMB sharing.
On Windows, mount the SMB share.
On Windows, use "subst" to map the SMB share to a new drive root.
(This avoids Lightroom's spurious error about not supporting network volumes.)
On Windows, launch Lightroom and open the catalog on the mapped drive.
This worked in Snow Leopard. But after upgrading to Lion, Step 4 gives me an error:
Lightroom cannot use the catalog named "Lightroom 3 catalog" because it is not writable and cannot be opened.
This could be caused by incorrect permissions or because another Lightroom application is using the catalog. You may try to correct the problem or you may select a different catalog.
Permissions seem OK: I can edit the catalog and the Previews.lrdata folder in Windows Explorer. And I see no stray .lrcat.lock file that might prevent it from opening the catalog.
The Mac version of Lightroom can open the catalog just fine, so I suspect Lion's new SMB implementation broke this somehow.
Has anyone got a shared Lion -> Windows catalog to work?

OK, I found a solution. The following page describes how to manually install an SMB implementation (Samba) that actually works. It requires installing Xcode from the App Store, installing MacPorts, and some command-line tinkering to configure Samba:
http://forums.sonos.com/showthread.php?t=24022
Once you've done that , follow the instructions in this post to create launchd entries that will start Samba at boot time:
http://forums.boxee.tv/showpost.php?p=205428&postcount=48
More details are here if you run into trouble:
http://forums.boxee.tv/showthread.php?t=38629
While I can now access my LR library again from Windows, this is just the latest in a series of annoying bugs with OS X Lion. I am not a happy camper— but I'll save that for the Apple forums.

Lost link to Lightroom Catalog

My kids were playing with my PC and accidently renamed my main storage drive. I renamed the drive and didnt think much of it until I opened Lightroom.
It has obviously lost the link with my catalog and is now asking to upgrade to catalog to work with LR4. I am concerned that if I go with this option I will lose all the the changes I have made to my images.
I have 55000 photos in the catalog so this would be pretty bad. I have been importing all of my files as DNG for quite a few years now and I am sure I had it set in preferences to embed changes into the DNG Files.
Can anyone advise on the best course of action from here.

Nothing in the upgrade process will cause you to lose your changes.
However, something else is wrong here. You shouldn't have to upgrade a catalog, so apparently you haven't renamed the disk properly, otherwise LR would know your catalog location.
Can't you find the catalog file on your hard disk? Use your operating system to search for files that end with LRCAT, and double click on it when you find it.

Technical question: Is it possible to work on the same Lightroom catalog across two computers and have the catalog sync? If so, how??

Technical question:
Is it possible to work on the same Lightroom catalog across two computers and have the catalog sync? If so, how??
Here's a little more information on what I am trying to do.
I have a desktop computer with 4tb worth of pictures that has Lightroom and Photoshop on it. I also have a laptop with Photoshop and Lightroom. I would like to be able to edit those same pictures with their current edits that are currently on my desktop on my laptop. If this can be done, I'm sure I need to be on the same wifi network for my laptop to be able to access my desktop's photo library. I am technically savvy enough to map a network drive, but how do I get my two Lightroom catalogs to sync when I make a change on one of my computers? Would i be working only on one catalog? Or two separate catalogs that would need to be manually synced to the other computer? Would it be beneficial to put my lightroom catalog on something like dropbox?
I'd appreciate any information or tutorials if someone knows how to do this.

I do this by having my LR catalog and photos on an external drive that I swap between the two computers. I am on Windows and have the same drive letter assigned to the drive on both computers.
Because the photos are on a portable drive I back up the portable drive to another hard-drive every night or after important work, because portable drives are susceptible to damage or loss.

Can I move the Lightroom Catalog from one location to another?

Lightroom by default, places the Lightroom Catalog in the Pictures folder on my PC. My image library though, is located on an external hard drive. I've read that it is better to have the Catalog at the same location to avoid disconnected images, which sounds reasonable. Is it feasable to move the Catalog over to the same drive as my image library, or will that cause a problem? In other words would I need to start over again and create a new Catalog on the external drive? I know this sounds like a dumb question, but I've learnt to my cost that the obvious solution isn't necessary the correct one.

For better performance it is preferable to have the catalog located on an internal hard drive. By default the catalog and the preview files have to be located in the same folder since there is continual read/write taking place while working in Lightroom. Lightroom does not make any changes to the original files so its fine for them to be located on another hard drive internal or external. Lightroom loves lots of hard disk space to operate so if your catalog is on an internal drive make sure it not starved for disk space.
However its ok for your catalog/previews files to reside on an external HDD with your original photo files.
Your photo files can reside on a HDD conected to a network but your catalog and preview files cannot be located on a network.
e.g I have my catalog / previews on the main HDD with my operating system with over 50% free disk space. My Photo files are on a secondary internal HDD with over 75% free disk space. I back up to external HDD.

Why do i get the following message when i attempt to open my backup file for lightroom cc? "Lightroom cannot use the catalog named "Lightroom Catalog" because it is not writable and cannot be opened". This message just started coming up after downloadi

why do i get the following message when i attempt to open my backup file for lightroom cc? "Lightroom cannot use the catalog named "Lightroom Catalog" because it is not writable and cannot be opened". This message just started coming up after downloading lightroom cc (previously using lightroom 5)...am i backing up properly or not???

Open Pictures folder and move the files named lrcat-journal and lrcat.lock to Desktop.
Make sure that , they are not inside Pictures folder any more and try to open backup from Lighrtroom and check..
Any LRcat file with .lock extension , move it to Desktop.

Why don't the ratings transfer when upgrading Lightroom to a new version? I no longer can sort using ratings--which took a lot of time to create.

I have given many of my photos ratings, but the ratings don't come over when upgrading Lightroom to the newest version. Anything I can do to recreate my ratings?

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Then try again.

I went to download the new lightroom update but my computer went dead at 51 percent. I got back on and it was gone so i reinstalled now when i click to open it sats the lightroom catalog named lightroom 5 catalog cannot be opened because another applicati

please help I need to open my my lightroom to edit and it says lightroom catalog cannot be opened bc another application already has it opened.... I went to download the update but computer went dead when came back on it was gone so I reinstalled. now wont open but ps will help birth session to edit

Make sure you don't have another copy of Lightroom actively running on your computer. If not, find your catalog file in Finder/Explorer. Look for a file with the same name, but with a .lock extension. delete that file. Now Lightroom should open the catalog again.

I have a new Mac Pro computer and have migrated my files from my older computer to the new computer. In trying to open a Lightroom catalog on an external hard drive I keep on getting the message "lightroom cannot use the catalog named " " because it is

I have a new Mac Pro computer and have migrated my files from my older computer to the new computer. In trying to open a Lightroom catalog on an external hard drive I keep on getting the message "lightroom cannot use the catalog named " " because it is not writable and cannot be opened. I have fixed all the "permissions" and yet it will still not open. How do I fix this?

Hello Forum Members,
I figured it out. You have to select the actual logo of the Lightroom catalog and then click on "get info" and allow what ever your new user name to "read and write". That worked!
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