Integrating old development files into LR Upgrades

Every time I upgrade lightroom I lose all or most of the development settings for my photographic image files. I back-up regularly and spend hours/days redoing say 40-60% again.
How do I upgrade and keep all of the previously developed image files as was. I am afraid to open a new catalogue in case those that I have sent days redoing are lost and others gained.
I have just successfully upgraded to LR 3.4 but the problem I have as always is as explained above. There are many saved back-up files where the information is but I do not know what to do to integrate these development files. There are LR1 and LR2 and LR3 libraries.
Thanks I am sure it is simple and something I should have learnt by now.

Sharpis wrote:
How do I put the original NEF files in touch with their setting/development file bearing in mind no one catalogue has all of the add-on (development) files. Please do not admonish me for getting in to this mess. I am not aware of being prompted at any upgrade LR2 to LR3. I am where I am and I would like some help to avoid having to redo about anothe 17k images again.
Thank you. Ask any question. I am in the throws of opening the whole lot up with a previously saved ircat but I am not sure if I am going to lose what I have just done to repair half of my D2X NEFs. That is also saved.
Hi Sharpis,
So I guess from your rephrased question that you have all settings somewhere in several lrcatalogs, so we can forget about my concerns of sidecar-xmp.
Well you cannot automatically merge different settings from different catalogs for 1 image. The best chance you have is to juxtapose all different variants that you have as "virtual copies" in your current catalog, so you can easily compare them and adapt / retain what you like best. In doing so you might want to check your Lightroom knowledge about synchronizing settings.
The first thing to do, so you will not loose anything in case you would do something wrong: search all catalogs in which you might have viable settings, and copy them (via your Operating system, so in Mac Finder) to a safe place out of reach, not to touch them. Just so you could revert to them. You will not need, but just to be sure since you are so scared to loose something.
Then take the old catalogs and make sure that you clearly know which one is about which.
Especially important is your current 3.4 catalog, which I would rename into "LR3 Master Catalog" (do the same for your previews folder, so its name needs to be identical in the string part before " Previews.lrdata").
If your other catalogs do not have clear naming, please do the same - rename each of them into something meaningful and do it accordingly for their Previews-folders.
Then you do as described in my last post:
You have your "LR3 Master Catalog" open and you import into it from each of the other viable catalogs.
Citing myself from last post:
The system will check if there are duplicate photos, which probably are all of them, so it asks just about metadata. Select from the drop-down choice "metadata and develop settings only" and tick "preserve old settings as a virtual copy".
LR will then create a virtual copy (VC) for every entry in your old catalog.
This may look cluttered.
But from there you can more easily compare what you like better and synchronize some settings specifically between virtual copies. Afterwards you will have one redundant VC which you can delete.
Doing so will ensure that your latest LR version-catalog will have the settings you like best from all LR-versions.
Your only risk is cluttering your current catalog with multiple virtual copies, but there is no risk to loose anything (as long you tick "metadata and develop settings only" !).
Still a lot of work, but on the safe side.

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