Advice on upgrade, settings, merging catalog

Do I need to start all over in setting up LR4 from LR3. It's been so long since I set everything up in LR3...I don't remember how I did it all! (Preferences, metadata, etc) Is there a way to bring all of that over in the upgrade process? (The box is still sitting on the shelf.)
I now have LR3 catalog, LR4 catalog from the beta. How do I, at least, get the LR4-beta catalog into the new lr4? I also don't want to clutter up my computer with 3 versions of LR. Will LR4-beta disappear after 31 March? What happens if I don't get the LR4 (actual) going by then? (I'm leaving the country for 2 weeks in a couple of days and won't be home until the 30th.)
Many questions. Haven't upgraded before....
Thanks!

There should not be an issue with upgrading in place - you have already given me my caveat. <grin>
You will need to upgrade integration components for every VM after upgrading Hyper-V. New ICs come with each release of the OS. Should not need to upgrade the VM's OSes other than that.
PowerShell. Can be used to change all VMs to not autostart and then change it back to autostart after everything is updated and you are happy. Can also be used to shutdown all the VMs instead of manually clicking on each one. I would definitely
make the change to not autostart - you are going to have more than one reboot in there, because you are also going to be applying patches. Don't want all those VMs yo-yo-ing
If you are using System Center to manage/monitor any 2012 R2 servers (after upgrade), you will need to upgrade to SC 2012 R2 because 2012 SP1 does not work with Windows Server 2012 R2.
. : | : . : | : . tim

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I did some searching but wasn't able to find a good match for the issue I'm trying to resolve.
I have recently installed LR3 after using LR3-beta, and had also been using PSE8 as my main photo library. After installing LR3 I used the "Upgrade Photoshop Elements Catalog...." to create a LR3 catalog of all photos that were in PSE8 catalog. In doing so LR8 created a separate catalog (Lightroom Catalog-2.lrcat) for these photos. However, I would like all photos in one catalog in LR8 (preferably in the LR8 master catalog: Lightroom Catalog.lrcat). Is there a way to either merge those 2 catalogs, or is there a better way to add the PSE8 photos into the LR3 master catalog? Thanks.

Thanks for the reply.
Tried that - while in LR using the master catalog, I selected the other catalog (Lightroom 3 Catalog-2.lrcat) and received the following pop-up box:

I want to move photos from my laptop to desktop and merge catalogs

I have Photoshop Elements 5 on my desktop with about 15,000 photos. Prior to a big trip I bought a laptop and loaded Elements 9 on it. I took about 5,000 pictures on the trip and organized them. Now I'm back and I want everything from my laptop on my desktop, including my copy of Elements 9.
I can probably figure out how to get Elements 9 from my laptop to desktop, however I searched the forums and it appears you can't merge catalogs.
Can anyone recommend the best way to handle my situation?
What I'm thinking...
Upgrade my desktop from Elements 5 to Elements 9.
Make sure my old Elements 5 catalog on my desktop is converted and functioning in Elements 9.
Copy all my files from the Laptop to the Desktop
Import all my files
Done.
The only problem is I will lose all the organization I did on my laptop! I don't want that.
Thanks!

I think its the best solution to write tags and all in photographs.... and get them back on import...
Here is one article about the simple case of migrating from one machine to other..: http://photoshopelementsbyadobe.blogspot.com/2010/06/how-to-transfer-your.html
There is no easy solution to catalog merging and one needs to look for solutions as suggested in last reply

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Hi sksinner,
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Upgraded LR1 - LR3 Catalog: blank Grid, non functioning app

I've been dealing with support on this, but they're utterly useless, taking days to get back to me and spinning me over troubleshooting 101 stuff.
Problem:
Upgraded a perfectly working LR1 catalog to LR3. No issues during upgrade.
Upon trying to use the LR3, the first thousand or so of my photos show up in Grid, but everything after that is blank. By that I mean, a grid cell is drawn, but LR3 doesn't display a thumbnail, or any cell extras or metadata.
Clicking on one of these empty cells gives me a thumbnail frame and some metadata (slowwwwly).
Going to Loupe View on a non-empty cell gives me a "Loading..." spinner and an unrendered thumbnail preview (CPU is not ramping up at all)
Going to Loupe View on an empty cell just gives me a blank screen (CPU is not ramping up at all)
Develop module does load the picture, but slowly.
When I quit, the app freezes up completely, with beachball. Must force-quit (after giving it 20 minutes in case it was actually trying to do something)
Initially, when I load LR3, my CPU runs high, 75%, like it's working on something. Then it just cuts out as if it's given up.
Console output when this happens is the following:
6/17/10 7:27:38 PM Adobe Lightroom 3[518] ServerProcess [AsyncDataServer( Lightroom 3 Catalog.lrcat )] ERRORSERVER<AsyncDataServer( Lightroom 3 Catalog.lrcat )>: A command threw an exception.
6/17/10 7:27:38 PM Adobe Lightroom 3[518] ServerProcess [AsyncDataServer( Lightroom 3 Catalog.lrcat )] ERROR Error: ?:0: attempt to perform arithmetic on field '?' (a nil value)
6/17/10 7:27:38 PM Adobe Lightroom 3[518] Error initializing alternate universe. bad argument #1 to 'pairs' (table expected, got nil)
System:
MacBook Pro Core2Duo 2.1Ghz 3GB RAM, 500GB Drive.
Initially Mac OS 10.5.8, but I tried upgrading to 10.6.3 and 10.6.4 (no luck).
Library: 21,000 photos
Other things I've tried:
Trashing all LR3 prefs, caches (running YASU), LR preview caches, plists, extensions, reinstalling, restarting -- no luck
Noticed it was copying the LR1 prefs plist, so I archived that. LR3 generated a new pref, but no help
Downloaded LR2 Demo, upgraded LR1 Catalog to LR2 Catalog (which works perfectly, no issues), and then LR2 Cat -> LR3 -- no luck
Checking integrity of Catalog in LR1 and LR2 (no problems) and LR3 when upgrading (no problems)
LR3 runs fine on an empty catalog and if I point it at my photo folder and import everything, it's ok (with none of my 3 years of modifications of course).
Is my only option to write out LR1 data to sidecar files and then setup a new Catalog in LR3?

Well, on top of having full access to the photo files, LR obviously has proper permissions to affect the files it generates in the AppSupport>Adobe>Lightroom folder, the Caches>Lightroom folder, the Pictures>Lightroom folder and the Preferences> folder, otherwise it wouldn't be able to build a new catalog, new prefs, new caches and so forth when I generate a new empty catalog.
I really doubt this is a permissions voodoo issue or a monitor profile issue.
LR3 works fine with a brand new catalog (and all the same Photo files).
LR1 and LR2 have absolutely no problem with my catalog and photo files.
LR2 upgrades my LR1 Catalog without issue.
LR3 fails with my upgraded catalog (and all the same photo files)
Unless I'm missing something in my logic tree here, it seems to me this is obviously a problem with LR3 upgrading my Catalog.
Other people's catalogs upgrade fine, and that's dandy, but my catalog doesn't upgrade AND it fails with exactly the same error message every time in the Console (See original post), which seem to be related to some internal db issue, dividing by zero, nil values.
Something ain't being handled right by LR3 that previous versions of LR had no problem with.

Option to Upgrade Photoshop Elements Catalog not available (LR5, PSE 12, Win 8)

Hi there. I have trial versions of both Photoshop Elements 12 and Lightroom 5.2 (trial licenses are both still active (i.e. not expired)). I'm looking to import my PSE12 catalog into Lightroom before I plunk down the money to buy it.
I cannot, however, locate the "File->Upgrade Photoshop Elements Catalog" option in LR5.
I may have originally installed LR 5 before installing PSE 12. So I uninstalled LR5 and reinstalled it. Still no luck - the option isn't there.
Any other ways to force LR5 to look for the PSE 12 catalog? Will LR5 even recognize a PSE12 catalog?
Your help is greatly appreciated - thanks!
Note: Using Win 8.1

dj_paige a écrit:
...But we can also wait and see report from other users.
Unfortunately, there is no doubt that the conversion of PSE12 catalogs has been omitted. It's not the first time : I also had to wait for LR4 to be able to convert PSE11 files. We may hope that Adobe will acknowledge the fact, and possibly solve the problem for future versions of PSE.
Of course, it's not a priority for Adobe: the ability to convert PSE catalogs is mainly a sales argument to make the jump from the PSE Organizer to LR easier. Not so many cases, and anyway you can always write metadata to files in PSE and import later in LR. After the jump to LR, you rarely have more PSE catalogs to convert.
However, maintaining misleading update notes by Adobe is not a good point in favour of LR. I do consider that the ability for LR to convert PSE catalog was and still is a very smart demonstration of the ability to deal with database organizational systems. I also consider that once that conversion process is mastered, the update process for each new Elements version is not such a big deal.

Upgrading rman 9i catalog to 10g catalog.

Hi,
I need to know the typical steps to upgrade the rman catalog from 9i to oracle oracle 10g. We have already 9i db's registered with 9i catalog and 10g db's are there which we will register with the upgraded 10g catalog.
Kindly provide links and also summarise here the typical steps involved.
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Depends. If you want to do an in-place upgrade, then upgrade the database to at least the highest 10g database that will be connecting. For example, if the highest 10g version you have is 10.2.0.1, then go to at least 10.2.0.1. I have been running 10.2.0.3 without any issues.
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Lightroom won't upgrade second PSE catalog

I have successfully upgraded my main Photoshop Elements 11 catalog into Lightroom 5.6.
I have a second PSE catalog I'd also like to upgrade, but not import into the main Lightroom catalog (keeping it as a standalone catalog). According to the user manual, there should be a dropdown available from File > Upgrade Photoshop Elements Catalog that will allow me to select this second PSE catalog. However, the dropdown only expands the Catalog info without giving me access to any other catalog. Is there a workaround (or am I doing this wrong)?
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There is no "Elements drop-down menu" within the dialog box to click on. The closest thing is an expand triangle opposite "Catalog info," but when clicked, that only displays more detail about the source PSE catalog I have already upgraded. There doesn't seem to be any way to browse to or select a second PSE catalog — which is what I'm trying to do.

Upgrade Photoshop Elements Catalog option is missing

The File Menu/Upgrade Photoshop Elements Catalog is missing on my version of LR5. I've followed the suggested procedure to update the preferences files for both Elements 12 and Lightroom 5, but LR5 still does not recognize that I have an existing Elements 12 catalog. I assume if it did the option would now be available?
This was the instruction I tried:
http://helpx.adobe.com/x-productkb/multi/lightroom-3-cant-upgrade-photoshop.html

dj_paige a écrit:
...But we can also wait and see report from other users.
Unfortunately, there is no doubt that the conversion of PSE12 catalogs has been omitted. It's not the first time : I also had to wait for LR4 to be able to convert PSE11 files. We may hope that Adobe will acknowledge the fact, and possibly solve the problem for future versions of PSE.
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However, maintaining misleading update notes by Adobe is not a good point in favour of LR. I do consider that the ability for LR to convert PSE catalog was and still is a very smart demonstration of the ability to deal with database organizational systems. I also consider that once that conversion process is mastered, the update process for each new Elements version is not such a big deal.

'Upgrade Photoshop Elements catalog' menu item missing

Hi,
I have been using PSE for many years and recently upgraded to PSE8 (and PRE8). In addition, I started playing with the LR3 Beta and realized that I wanted to migrate LR from PSE. I just bought LR3 and now want to import my PSE8 catalog into LR3. The Lightroom Help tells me that I should go to File - Upgrade Photoshop Elements Catalog (while in Library module), but this menu item is not showing up in my Lightroom... Is my LR3 not detecting my PSE8 catalog installation? How can I fix this?
Any help or pointers would be greatly appreciated!

dj_paige a écrit:
...But we can also wait and see report from other users.
Unfortunately, there is no doubt that the conversion of PSE12 catalogs has been omitted. It's not the first time : I also had to wait for LR4 to be able to convert PSE11 files. We may hope that Adobe will acknowledge the fact, and possibly solve the problem for future versions of PSE.
Of course, it's not a priority for Adobe: the ability to convert PSE catalogs is mainly a sales argument to make the jump from the PSE Organizer to LR easier. Not so many cases, and anyway you can always write metadata to files in PSE and import later in LR. After the jump to LR, you rarely have more PSE catalogs to convert.
However, maintaining misleading update notes by Adobe is not a good point in favour of LR. I do consider that the ability for LR to convert PSE catalog was and still is a very smart demonstration of the ability to deal with database organizational systems. I also consider that once that conversion process is mastered, the update process for each new Elements version is not such a big deal.

TS4009 I had an advice to upgrade 5 apps i already have on my ipad. I clicked to upgrade them all, but they are all in "waiting" and jammed.could someone tell me how to solve this problem iI have since i downloaded iclous

I had an advice to upgrade 5 apps i already have in my ipad.
I clicked to upgrade them alltogether but they all jammed.
Each icon shows "in waiting" since I installed Icloud, I have this kind of problems.
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ok,
At this little tutorial here:
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It says
"The Document interface is the content model for Swing text components. Every Swing text component has an instance of Document associated with it. The Document contains both the content for its component as well as any style information for the rendering of the content. All content is stored in the Document's Element array. Style information is stored in each Element as an AttributeSet. We'll get into AttributeSets in the next article, when we discuss styled text components. "
Mainly concentrating on :
All content is stored in the Document's Element array. Style information is stored in each Element as an AttributeSet.
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Lightroom 4 has previously upgraded the selected catalog

I have upgraded to LR 4 and in the process, I upgraded my primary catalog.
However, ever time I open the catalog I get a dialog with the message "lightroom 4 has previously upgraded the selected catalog"
Would you like to use the upgraded catalog instead?"
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Ah, of course.
Thanks for making what should have been obvious clear to me.
We all get a little remedial sometimes.
Thanks for the jolt!
James Haney
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I am following the documented LR process. The merge starts, runs and looks like it completes but the new data (photos and catalog information) does not show up in desktop (merged) catalog.
When I try it again, the dialog box indicates that the new files have been exported (as they are no longer highlighted).
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